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To: Bonefish who wrote (1280203)	11/24/2020 7:32:47 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By sylvester80 Respond to of 1578370

Dunno, we'll find out when she's prosecuted.

To: Bonefish who wrote (1280203)	11/24/2020 7:40:43 AM
From: Brumar89	3 Recommendations Recommended By pocotrader rdkflorida2 sylvester80 Respond to of 1578370

How much did Putin pay Trump to destroy our Open Skies Treaty observation planes? I challenge all SI Trumpers to defend this! Trump kills Open Skies treaty negotiated by the elder Bush. AND has the observation planes we used to legally spy on Russia DISMANTLED. Most glaring act of treachery by Trump, the Traitor: United States Formally Exits Open Skies Treaty A report suggests that the Trump administration’s decision to label the supporting reconnaissance aircraft “excess defense articles” is meant to complicate any attempt by President-elect Biden to rejoin it. By Abhijnan Rej November 23, 2020 On board a Turkish Casa CN-235 aircraft flying under the Open Skies Treaty, 23 February 2004. Credit: OSCE, Creative Commons Attribution – No Derivative WorksADVERTISEMENT The Trump administration formally withdrew from the 34-nation Open Skies Treaty on November 22 after serving the obligatory six-months’ notice to do so in May this year. The treaty, which came to force in 2002, allows signatories to conduct reconnaissance flights over the territories of others on 72-hours notice in order to gather information about the military preparedness and other activities, effectively serving as a confidence-building measure. While not an arms control treaty by itself – its terms do not impose caps on weapons themselves – it serves to support verification of arms control agreements such as the Chemical Weapons Convention, among others. This is the fourth arms control and related agreement the Trump administration has either withdrawn from or gravely imperiled. In 2018, the United States withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), an agreement involving the European Union, Germany, the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, and Iran, under which Tehran agreed to cap its nuclear activities and place them under stringent international monitoring. In April last year, the U.S. withdrew from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, citing Russian cheating. The Trump administration’s obtuse position on the New START Treaty, which is set to expire in February, has also put it in serious jeopardy even though modest, though confusing, signs emerged last month that suggested Russia and United States were close to reaching an agreement to renew it. In the past, the Trump administration has demanded that New START include China as a party. Given the vast disparity between the sizes of the American and Russian nuclear arsenals on one hand, and China’s on the other, many analysts have called the proposal for a trilateral New START a non-starter. Announcing that the U.S. was no longer party to the Open Skies Treaty, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted, “America is more secure because of it, as Russia remains in non-compliance with its obligations.” Understandably, the Democratic Party remains opposed to Trump taking a sledgehammer to the entire edifice of international security agreements. Bloomberg quoted Senator Bob Menendez of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as saying in a statement, “The administration’s decision to abandon the treaty fits into a broader pattern of discarding arms control and non-proliferation agreements, raising deep concerns among our allies about our commitment to their security.” According to the outlet, Menendez also urged the incoming Biden administration to rejoin it. ....But that might be easier said than done. The Wall Street Journal reports that not only did the Trump administration exit the Open Skies Treaty, but it has also moved to discard the two special purpose OC-135B reconnaissance aircraft used for overflights, designating them as “excess defense articles.” Explaining what that means, a senior U.S. official told the Journal: “We’ve started liquidating the equipment,” adding “Other countries can come purchase or just take the airframes. They are really old and cost-prohibitive for us to maintain. We don’t have a use for them anymore.” This decision – which Carnegie nuclear policy expert Toby Dalton termed “more salting of the earth” in a tweet – will make it harder for the Biden administration to rejoin the treaty even if it wants to. thediplomat.com

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11/24/2020 7:46:03 AM

From: Brumar89

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I'm not sure if you're noticing, but there's been a recent shift in the anti-anti-Trump defense of Trump's deranged behavior from "these lawsuits might have merit" to "hahahaha this is revenge for the 'Russia hoax' and impeachment." This is absurd, for many reasons. /1

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Trump's defenders constantly want to memory-hole his campaign's misconduct, but there were real reasons to investigate his campaign. His son, campaign chair, and son-in-law met with a Russian lawyer in the attempt to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. /2

Trump's campaign chair, Paul Manafort, was in active, clandestine communication with a Russian agent and provided the agent with internal campaign information. The campaign attempted to use Roger Stone to set up a back-channel communication with Wikileaks, a Russian asset. /3

Senate intel assessed that Trump spoke with Stone and members of his campaign about those contacts -- even as Trump told the special counsel that he did not recall discussing Wikileaks with Stone. /4

Also, the Trump organization was in talks during the campaign about forging business relationships in Russia, and Trump's lawyer lied to Congress about those contacts. Moreover, the campaign's key foreign policy adviser was an unregistered foreign agent for Turkey. /5

On the impeachment front, the evidence is overwhelming (including from the "perfect" transcript) that Trump attempted to condition vital foreign aid on a desperate ally's pledge to investigate a political opponent AND an absurd Crowdstrike conspiracy theory. /6

None of these events justify the Steele Dossier, FISA abuses, or wild speculations about voting machines being hacked, but the Trump team's conduct was improper and it should have been subject to intense investigation and bipartisan condemnation. /7

In the months and years after Trump leaves office, there will be an intense effort on the right to whitewash his corruption, and rationalizing or minimizing the events above will be part of that effort. It should not succeed. /8

By contrast, the current Trump legal effort to overturn the election is built on nothing at all of any consequence. Its lawsuits are frivolous. Its conspiracy theories are nonsense. And even as "revenge" they're nonsensical. /9

Delaying the transition doesn't teach liberal media a lesson, but it may harm national security. Filing clownish lawsuits doesn't stop Biden, but it does discredit the attorneys and their media apologists and bilk sad and angry Trump supporters out of money. /10

Revenge? No. It's a sad and pathetic temper tantrum that hurts no one more than the Trump and his enablers. They're driving their legal clown car into their own political crowd. /end