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Pentagon confirms lifting of ban on entry into Ukraine for US military contractors

https://tass.com/world/1869897

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Thanks. Looks like they're trying to force Trump to continue. I don't think it will work.

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Wait and see is a good policy, everything is very strange right now.

My best approach is to sit back, and let you do your thing. I trust your abilities to sort fact from fiction.

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Remarkably childish

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My first reaction vindicated: this is all horse hockey, neocon games. Stay tuned. Loving the locked down transition,

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Quite right, NZ. And I want to admit to the opposite — falling for it like a fool. After all the enemy has thrown at us over the past 8 years, I should have known better.

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Remember a very wise statement that Elon Musk made on election night or shortly after. "You are the media."

The legacy press are in shock and denial. They're spinning and obfuscating. Give them enough rope and they'll hang themselves, that is, their reputation.

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My thought is that Steve Bannon and Mike Davis have Trump's trust. Steve went to prison for loyalty to the Constitution, and by extension, Trump. Trump values frankness, integrity and honest loyalty.

Things said on War Room are encouraging.

I tend to trust Trump, Jr. I have no personal knowledge, it comes down to watching him and developing a feeling about him.

The Deep State put him through hell. He could've walked away and they would've not pursued him. The fact that he boldly threw his hat back in the ring, tells me he's in it for the right reasons.

He loves this country and the common man.

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Is there a reason for Trump to telegraph many of his future plans? Why not hit them with them on day one so there’s less time to build opposition? For example, on day one order the removal of all US troops in Syria, to be accomplished in 30 days.

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Last night I was reading the story of how Wilson got pushed/pulled into WW1. Ending with the Zimmerman telegram.

On this eleventh hour of eleventh day of eleventh month I will remember the young men who answered the call of their country in good faith, may they rest in peace in hope of the resurrection, though that call may not have been made in good faith.

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Stupid trying to do this with Trump, a master of the news cycle. Especially with how Trumps team got burned and kneecapped with the Logan act and the associated Russiagate smear first transition, I’m sure this is impacting Trumps current transition actions / practices. I’m sure the deepstate would love to do another Russiagate.

Makes sense - what a corrupt system:

“news” reports be designed to try to force Trump back into line”

These false reports tell you more of the concerns of the lying parties.

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To be fair it's not so much the system is corrupt, but rather those using this system are corrupt. No good can come from further facilitating the Ukraine debacle with more money and weapons or bowing to Zionists to protect Israel before we protect our own people. Samuel Huntington was clear on his aversion to dual citizenship and the dangers this posed to our foreign and domestic policies. Mark is right this is not getting off to a good start. Rumors and innuendo created his first transition and Trump may have heeded that lesson, but the siren call of $$$$$$ are always a temptation amongst the class of people who grift off situations like this. The great elation over the triumph of the election is tempering at record speed.

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The system is highly politicized, thank you Bill Clinton and Obama, with the eGOP turning a blind eye. With Gwb Bush and Cheney creating the foundation of the current surveillance/intelligence deep state that made this possible (patriot act). And John F Kennedy allowed federal employees to unionize. Plus covid and Russiagate gave the excuse to grow the censorship government/ private partnership.

On the grift, an example, I remember how the first head of homeland security got a golden parachute into a company that made this full body scanners used in airports under 9-11 under Bush 2.

https://www.deseret.com/2010/1/2/20362165/homeland-security-secretary-michael-chertoff-benefiting-from-scanner-sales/

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Hey Ray, Nice comments and you are correct many of the actions of past presidents Democrat or Republican contributed to the situation we find ourselves in. However; I also believe the Christian coalition GWB pursued that we now call Christian Zionists have allowed the worst elements of Zionism to prosper under Republican support. We got bamboozled, in my opinion, with 9-11 and your comment on Chertoff was spot on. https://www.unz.com/article/israel-did-9-11/

You don't have to read the whole article, but there are sections related to Chertoff that I was unaware of and have since began realigning my views on a lot things.

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Chertoff is unquestionably a major Deep State player. The Israel Lobby has worked assiduously over the years to cultivate "Christian" Zionist knuckleheads.

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Who thinks Trump is pretty much totally aware of all that? How about Putin? Hey, gives them something in common.

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I read the article a while back, and it changed my worldview. Very troubling.

Large Organized Christian organizations seem to have large been co-opted.

Israel has done an amazing job of influencing the U.S. political system both through fair and foul means. Epstein, Maxwell, AIPAC, jdl, etc.

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And American Christian zionists are so, so, so uninformed and naive. They are putty.

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"They are putty." I prefer knuckleheads, but puttyheads works too.

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Crooke also reports that Trump's Lebanese SIL has been very active in the Trump campaign, especially in MI, and that Don Jr. is strongly anti-Neocon and also involved.

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also anti-Neocon: Tucker...and Tulsi...and JD...and Elon...and Vivek...and RFK

...and most of the 75 million Americans who voted for him.

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Great point, Cass

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All sorts of "reports" flying around--Neocons are clearly freaking out, trying to pressure Trump by raising alarms among their consituency:

OSINTdefender @sentdefender

President-Elect Donald J. Trump will order the Withdrawal of U.S. Forces from Northern Syria, according to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Jean-Claude Juncker: 'When it becomes serious, you have to lie'

MSM busted so easily and quickly. Are the interns in charge as the higher-ups slip out the back door?

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Isn’t state directed propaganda grand?

“….based on accounts by sources “familiar with the matter,” who spoke on condition of anonymity.”

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The players change, but the script remains the same.

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