Russia Celebrates Trumps win & coming leadership.

Ocean Breeze

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As ‘The Black Time’ of Barack Obama Ends, Russia Celebrates Trump’s Inaugural - The Daily Beast

A question all this raises is: What does Donald know that he is keeping from the public ? Russia's support is not having a positive effect on his low ratings as he begins his term in office.
A positive relationship with other nations is an imperative objective for any leader.but it should apply to all nations as it applies to them individually. But this love affair that Trump has with Putin is astounding to say the least..and potentially can impair his impartially and objective judgement when it comes to dealing with him. It has an obsessive quality to it. As does his twittering. He can't seem to help himself. which raises a load of questions about his mental stability. ( as does his emotional /angry reactivity to criticism and slights that he finds offensive to his ego or masculinity.
 
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The Russians have just invaded and annexed all of the Ukraine and a third of the Ukraine in just the last few years. Why would Trump be in such a hurry to make that a success for them? Why wreck NATO and the "trip wire" NATO deployments in countries like Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania so that they are not next?
 
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another pollster's fake news prediction
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of course it means Trump will do fine
 
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Curious Cdn said:
It will lift when The Dems and Republicans unite to run Herr Drumpf out of town, later on in the year.
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You may not agree with the election of Trump and that is your right, but you may invite civil war, which is the global elites plan B which might still save them. I think Trump is a damn good mechanic, I just can't see what he's fixing very well but others with more brains seem to be giving his work very good reviews.
 
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Curious Cdn said:
It will lift when The Dems and Republicans unite to run Herr Drumpf out of town, later on in the year.
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you are saying what many are thinking..particularly the Herr.ft. part. on the most superficial analysis one has to do is look at his petulant , sulky , never smiling let alone frowning face....and one sees the "Herr part. He will dictate his views andoopinions one way or another. Putin sees a comrade in dictators in donald . I suspect that this is a big part of the anxiety that has arisen in the many nations that have to deal with the US. (and rightl
y so )If this involved JUST the US.... who cares....but it does not. Every nasty tweet only shows the true immature character of the Donald.
 
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Ocean Breeze said:
you are saying what many are thinking..particularly the Herr.ft. part. on the most superficial analysis one has to do is look at his petulant , sulky , never smiling let alone frowning face....and one sees the "Herr part. He will dictate his views andoopinions one way or another. Putin sees a comrade in dictators in donald . I suspect that this is a big part of the anxiety that has arisen in the many nations that have to deal with the US. (and rightl
y so )If this involved JUST the US.... who cares....but it does not. Every nasty tweet only shows the true immature character of the Donald.
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You are confusing a leader with a dictator. The one can become the other though, even that ain't always bad. Putin is subject to democratic selection the same as Trump is. You seem to side with the dictatorial pronouncements of the politically correct sludge pond. I'm happy that America has picked a better actor than that globalist shjt ball thing that's on the way out. A vote for Clinton or any sympathy whatever for the Democratic pedofile party is a clear indication of politically correct sludge poisoning. See your doctor/pusher, he/she,ll prescibed something to take care of that last troubling brain cell of yours.
Yes, I do not agree with your assesment.
 
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Trump and the nuclear codes

Trump and the nuclear codes - BBC News

By Frank Gardner BBC security correspondent
On 20 January, inauguration day in the United States, a nameless, unknown military aide will be seen accompanying President Barack Obama to the handover ceremony at the US Capitol in Washington.
That military aide will be carrying a satchel over his or her shoulder containing a briefcase known as "the nuclear football". Inside will be a piece of digital hardware measuring 3in (7.3cm) by 5in, known as "the biscuit".
This contains the launch codes for a strategic nuclear strike. The briefing for the incoming president on how to activate them will have already taken place out of public sight, but the moment President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office that aide, and the satchel, will move quietly over to his side.
Donald Trump will then have sole authority to order an action that could result in the deaths of millions of people in under an hour. The question on a lot of people's minds right now is, given his thin skin and impulsive temperament, what are the safeguards, if any, to prevent an impetuous decision by one man with catastrophic consequences?
First off, it should be said that Donald Trump has rowed back on some of his earlier, provocative comments on the use of nuclear weapons. He has recently stated he would be "the last person to use them", although he has not ruled it out.

Other senior figures are also involved in the chain of command, such as the incoming US Secretary of Defence, retired US Marine Gen James Mattis, But Mark Fitzpatrick, a nuclear non-proliferation expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Washington, says that ultimately, the sole authority to launch a strike rests with the president.
"There are no checks and balances on the president's authority to launch a nuclear strike," he says. "But between the time he authorises one and the time it's carried out there are other people involved."
The idea of a rogue president taking such a monumental decision on his own is unrealistic. He gives the order and the secretary of defence is constitutionally obliged to carry it out.
The secretary of defence could, in theory, refuse to obey the order if he had reason to doubt the president's sanity, but this would constitute mutiny and the president can then fire him and assign the task to the deputy secretary of defence.
Under the 25th Amendment of the US Constitution a vice-president could, in theory, declare the president mentally incapable of taking a proper decision, but he would need to be backed by a majority of the cabinet.
So how would it work in practice?
Inside that briefcase, the "nuclear football" that never leaves the president's side, is a "black book" of strike options for him to choose from once he has authenticated his identity as commander-in-chief, using a plastic card.
Washington folklore has it that a previous president temporarily mislaid his identification card when he left it inside a jacket that was sent to the dry cleaners.
Once the president has selected his strike options from a long-prepared "menu", the order is passed via the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the Pentagon's war room and then, using sealed authentication codes, on to US Strategic Command HQ in Offutt Airbase in Nebraska.
The order to fire is transmitted to the actual launch crews using encrypted codes that have to match the codes locked inside their safes.
The US and Russia both possess enough nuclear missiles to destroy each other's cities several times over - there are reported to be 100 US nuclear warheads aimed at Moscow alone. The two countries' arsenals account for more than 90% of the world's total number of nuclear warheads.
As of September 2016 Russia had the most, with an estimated 1796 strategic nuclear warheads, deployed on a mixed platform of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) and strategic bombers.
Under a programme ordered by President Vladimir Putin, Moscow has recently invested billions of roubles in upgrading its strategic nuclear missile force, keeping an arsenal of constantly mobile ballistic missiles travelling through tunnels deep beneath the forests of Siberia.
America had, in September 2016, 1,367 strategic nuclear warheads, similarly deployed in land-based underground missile silos, which by their static nature are vulnerable to a first strike, at sea onboard submarines, where they are harder to detect, and at airbases, where they can be loaded on to bombers.
The UK has about 120 strategic warheads, of which only a third are deployed at sea. The Royal Navy always keeps a portion of the nation's Trident nuclear force somewhere in the world's oceans, maintaining what is known as the continuous at sea deterrent.

ICBMs travel at a speed of over 17,000mph (Mach 23), flying high above the Earth's atmosphere before descending towards their pre-programmed targets at four miles a second.
The flight-time for land-based missiles flying between Russia and the US is between 25 and 30 minutes. For submarine-based missiles, where the boats may be able to approach a coast covertly, the flight time could be considerably shorter, even as little as 12 minutes.
This does not leave a president much time to decide whether it is a false alarm or imminent Armageddon. Once ICBMs have been launched they cannot be recalled, but if they remain in their silos they will probably be destroyed by the inbound attack.
A former senior White House official told me recently that much would depend on the circumstances in which a nuclear strike was being considered.
If this was a long-term, measured policy decision to say, carry out a pre-emptive strike on country X, then a lot of people would be involved. The vice-president, National Security Adviser, and much of the cabinet would all be likely to be included in the decision-making process.
But if there was an imminent strategic threat to the United States, ie if an inbound launch of ICBMs from a hostile state had been detected and were minutes from reaching the US then, he said, "the president has extraordinary latitude to take the sole decision to launch."
 
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Ocean Breeze said:
In keeping with Russia and its "new relationship with the U.S...Looks like Snowden will still have a place to live in russia. Trumps debt to Russia and Putin is growing. Gotta wonder what the payback will be .or what form it will take. Russia gestures of support and influence don't come free.
Poll: Obama Leaving Office With Highest Approval Since 2009 - The Daily Beast
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Sorry folks: THIS is the link I meant to post:(my bad) ;-(

Edward Snowden’s Russia Residency Extended - The Daily Beast
 
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