They reached the chapel, which lies 1,200 meters (3,940 feet) high on a winding road built by Russian and other prisoners for their Austrian captors, who needed it as a supply route during battles against the Italians.
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Donald Trump’s flurry of offhand remarks and abrupt zingers on Russian Federation – praising Vladimir Putin, dismissing North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – have jolted the world, not to mention the US presidential campaign. In short, this appears to be a Russian intelligence operation created to damage Clinton.
This is not the first time Russian Federation has been accused of meddling in politics overseas.
After Panetta’s comments to the Democratic convention, senior Trump advisor Stephen Miller accused the former Central Intelligence Agency chief of excusing Clinton’s use of the private email system, saying it enabled foreign espionage and that Panetta “should know how many lives she put at risk”. In 2013, Trump tweeted: “Do you think Putin will be going to The Miss Universe Pageant in November in Moscow – if so, will he become my new best friend?” Well, not exactly. The issue here is that in all probability Russian Federation already has Hillary Clinton’s emails, because she selfishly and foolishly stored them on an insecure private server, so as to keep them from the prying eyes of journalists armed with FOIA requests and, later on, historians who benefit from the archiving of official government documents, including emails.
“The reality is I don’t take Donald Trump as using that type of humor”, he said. “If Russia or China or any other country has those emails, I mean to be honest with you, I’d love to see them”. “Now Mr. Trump is openly appealing to him to do so”.
Putin has not openly backed Trump and the Kremlin denies reports that it is interfering in the US electoral process.
The Espionage Act (U.S. Code §§ 792-799) refers to certain types of classified information that are “knowingly and wilfully communicate [d]”, or the gathering or delivering of defense information “with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation”. (Try telling that to Ukraine.) Another Trump foreign policy adviser, retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, flew to Moscow previous year to attend a gala banquet celebrating Russia Today, the Kremlin’s propaganda channel, and was seated at the head table near Putin. “If we can make a great deal for our country and get along with Russian Federation that would be a tremendous thing”. “What I do know is that Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed admiration for Vladimir Putin”.
“Of course I’m being sarcastic”, Trump told Fox News Thursday.
Trump said he and Putin “are very different”, but that they would “get along very well”.
On Wednesday, Trump offered this vision for rosier U.S.
The takeaway here is interesting: Less educated, younger Americans who were not as up to date with current events may not view Putin as quite so bad. The committee publicly acknowledged the hacking on June 14. “Guccifer 2.0 is a Russian propaganda effort and not an independent actor”, ThreatConnect said. Putin might be holding back explosive material until October, when its release could ensure a Trump victory.
Such a development ought to alarm all Americans, even Republicans.
“I think he’s done really a great job of outsmarting our country”, Trump told Larry King after Putin successfully dissuaded the US from striking Syria by arranging with the USA for the removal of Syria’s chemical weapons.
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Max Boot is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a contributing writer to the Los Angeles Times’ opinion section.
