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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1376958)	10/13/2022 7:17:25 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	1 Recommendation Recommended By Brumar89 Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1577188

Broken Cuck, Your fascist Uke gov't is the entity that "made" these kids "orphans" And that excuses RuZZia from taking them, lying to them about their parents being dead, and forcing them to become RuZZian citizens? Did RuZZia get consent from the parents before taking them away from these "fAsCiSt orphanages"? Did RuZZia even bother to find new parents in Ukraine for these children? Oh wait, that wouldn't make any sense. RuZZia is bombing the shit out of Ukraine. Why allow kids to play in Ukrainian playgrounds that might eventually be the target of a cruiZe missile? Oooh oooh, lemme guess. This is no different than what America did when they kidnapped Iraqi children, brought them to America, lied to them about their parents being dead, then taught these children English and told them that they are Americans. Yep, completely the same thing. Except that the RuZZian adoptive parents aren't "gAy sAtAnIsTs" ... Tenchusatsu

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1376958)	10/13/2022 8:00:04 PM
From: sylvester80	4 Recommendations Recommended By Brumar89 pocotrader SeachRE Wharf Rat Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577188

MUST READ: Recognizing His Election Loss, TRAITOR Trump Tried To Make A ‘Catastrophic’ National Security Move On Nov. 11, 2020, Trump sought to leave a mess for his successor by rushing thousands of troops out of Afghanistan and Somalia before Biden's inauguration. By Akbar Shahid Ahmed Oct 13, 2022, 03:57 PM EDT huffpost.com In November 2020, as Donald Trump was falsely declaring in public that he’d won the presidential election, he privately ordered a rapid withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan and Somalia — attempting to fulfill a long-held plan and ensure a mess for President-elect Joe Biden. On Thursday, the House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump demonstrators on Jan. 6, 2021, highlighted Trump’s move as evidence that he knew he was spreading a dangerous lie. “Knowing he had lost and that he had only weeks in office, President Trump rushed to complete his unfinished business,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), one of the two Republicans on the congressional committee, said during a televised hearing. “One key example is this: President Trump issued an order for large-scale U.S. troop withdrawals.” Trump issued the directive on Nov. 11, 2020. Axios reporters Jonathan Swan and Zachary Basu revealed the existence of the memo last year. Jan. 6 committee investigators confirmed that Trump personally approved the proposal, and that his top national security staff thought it would spell disaster. On Thursday, the committee played footage from the relevant interviews. “If I ever saw something like that, I would do something physical, because I thought what that was doing was a tremendous disservice to the nation,” Keith Kellogg, who was the national security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence at the time, told the committee. “An immediate departure that that memo said would have been catastrophic ... It would have been a debacle.” John McEntee, who was one of Trump’s closest aides, told committee investigators he drafted the order along with an aide, and that he secured the president’s signature on the memo. The proposal called for stunning speed: Trump wanted thousands of troops removed from two complex war-torn countries before Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2021. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the investigators he viewed Trump’s pitch as “nonstandard [and] potentially dangerous.” “I personally thought it was militarily not feasible nor wise,” Milley said. Trump “disregarded concerns about the consequences for fragile governments on the front lines of the fight against ISIS and al Qaeda terrorists,” Kinzinger said Thursday. “These are the highly consequential actions of a president who knows his term will shortly end.” Milley, then-national security adviser Robert O’Brien, and then-acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller united against the order and convinced Trump to withdraw it, according to Axios. Ultimately, Miller announced on Nov. 17 that the U.S. would reduce its Afghanistan presence from 4,500 troops to 2,500. The following year, when Biden announced a full American withdrawal from Afghanistan in April and completed it five months later, Republicans blasted Biden. Close Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Biden should have been impeached over Afghanistan’s collapse amid the withdrawal, and called his policy “the most dishonorable thing a commander in chief has done in modern times.” But Trump’s plan would likely have resulted in even greater instability in Afghanistan — completely blindsiding the U.S.-backed government and international allies — and a greater risk to American personnel, who would have had far less time to draw down the bigger deployment that was there at the time. Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump administration official, highlighted the inconsistency on Twitter Thursday. “As someone who remains highly critical of Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal, I’d be curious to hear [defenses] on the Right of Trump’s order for an even hastier withdrawal,” she wrote.