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    GOP senators challenge Trump on secretary of state prospect's Russia ties

    GOP senators challenge Trump on secretary of state prospect's Russia ties

    Published December 11, 2016 FoxNews.com

    NOW PLAYINGGetting to know Rex Tillerson, potential secretary of state
    Sen. Marco Rubio and other GOP senators fired a warning shot this weekend over President-elect Donald Trump’s consideration of ExxonMobil Chairman Rex Tillerson for secretary of state, raising concerns about the global energy titan’s reported Russian ties.

    Tillerson is thought to be a favorite for the position of top U.S. diplomat and met again with the president-elect in New York on Saturday, though Trump would not confirm his selection in an interview with “Fox News Sunday.” The president-elect said only that he’s “getting very, very close” to an announcement.


    But Rubio, who ran unsuccessfully for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination and later endorsed Trump, posted a thinly veiled warning about Tillerson on Twitter Sunday morning, without mentioning him by name.


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    Tillerson is reported to have close ties to Russia. Democrats already have seized on the accounts, with the Democratic National Committee preemptively declaring such a choice “another victory for Vladimir Putin.”

    Republicans have taken a more measured – but still cautious – approach.


    Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., chairman of the Armed Services Committee, told Fox News on Saturday that Putin is a “thug” and while he doesn’t know the nature of Tillerson’s relationship with the Russian leader, it’s a matter of concern.


    Speaking Sunday with CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” McCain said the Senate would give him a “fair hearing” and noted Tillerson’s ties could be “strictly commercial.”


    But he reiterated that “it should be a matter of concern.” He voiced concern that Tillerson’s relationship could “color his approach” toward Putin and the Russian threat.


    Amid the bipartisan debate, Trump tweeted late Sunday morning: “Whether I choose him or not for ‘State’- Rex Tillerson, the Chairman & CEO of ExxonMobil, is a world class player and dealmaker. Stay tuned!”


    The Wall Street Journal
    reported last week on Tillerson’s ties to Putin and other world leaders.


    Under his leadership, Exxon has steadily expanded its Russian business even as rivals faced expropriation and regulatory obstacles.


    In 2011, Tillerson announced an expansive relationship with Russia's Rosneft that will spend years and billions of dollars developing technology to explore and produce oil and gas in icy waters in the Russian Arctic. In 2013, Putin bestowed the Order of Friendship on Tillerson.


    Trump, though, still has not announced his choice for the State Department job.


    Trump told “Fox News Sunday” that he has “others” as candidates for the post, while lauding Tillerson’s record.


    “He's much more than a business executive. I mean, he's a world-class player. … He's in charge of an oil company that's pretty much double the size of his next serious competitor. It's been a company that's been unbelievably managed. And to me, a great advantage is he knows many of the players, and he knows them well. He does massive deals in Russia. He does massive deals for the company -- not for himself -- for the company,” Trump said. “I have tremendous respect for him.”


    House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” that Tillerson would be a “smart pick.”


    Noting that experts in the State Department would be on hand to assist the next secretary, McCarthy said Tillerson has an understanding of what world leaders are looking for and “knows what buttons kind of push them.”


    Speaking on ABC News’ “This Week,” incoming Trump chief of staff Reince Priebus also defended Tillerson as an “incredible businessman and American patriot.”


    While noting a “conclusion has not been made,” he stressed that Tillerson is in the business of finding oil around the world, and said “the fact that he actually has a relationship with people like Vladimir Putin and others across the globe is something that [we] shouldn't be ... embarrassed by.”


    Asked about tough questions from Republican senators, he said, “We don't have concerns about confirmation.”

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    I know that I don't keep up with everything - but when did Russia become our greatest threat?

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    Russia has never been a threat to the United States. There are 5 members of the United Nations Permanent Security Council and each country has individual veto power over any and everything related to United Nations resolutions. Those 5 members are the United States, Great Britain, France, Russia and China. These five nations are the reason we have not had another world war. These five nations are the reason we have a free world. Russia and China suffered the greatest losses during WWII at the hands of Germany and Japan. Everyone associates the horror of World War II with Germany's horrible treatment of the Jews that cost 6 million Jews their lives.

    What most people don't know because it's never discussed, never talked about, never reported, never taught are the much greater human losses that Russia and China experienced during WWII. Each country lost over 20 million people each. Over 40 million human beings, citizens of Russia and China were killed or died as a result of WWII, either in battles, attacks, labor camps, torture, extermination or starvation at the hands of Japan and Germany.

    It's the greatest genocide in the history of the world and no one ever talks about it. The people of the United States saved these two countries in 3 years and 8 months. And these two countries helped US save the world. We didn't rebuild Russia. We didn't rebuild China. They didn't even ask US to do so. They recovered and rebuilt their own nations in the best way countries with such devastating loss and cost could do so. Instead, we rebuilt Germany and Japan and made them both economic superpowers, the two countries that waged this horror on Russia and China and tried to do so on the rest of the world.

    In my opinion, it's time for stupid people like Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham to sit down and shut-up. They've both proven themselves to be useless politicians in every serious issue that really mattered to the United States.
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    American people are gullible - they just listen to what the TV tells them.

    Didn't anyone every teach them they should be skeptical, question, think for themselves?

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    Russia and China pose largest security threats, says US military report


    • ‘Low but growing’ chance of war with major power, report says
    • Iran and North Korea also pose ‘serious security concerns’



    The Russian army conducts military exercises on 25 June. Photograph: Tass / Barcroft Media

    AFP in Washington
    Wednesday 1 July 2015 18.45 EDT


    America’s new military strategy singles out states like China and Russia as aggressive and threatening to US security interests, while warning of growing technological challenges and worsening global stability.

    A somber report released Wednesday by General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff
    , warns of a “low but growing” probability of the US fighting a war with a major power, with “immense” consequences.


    Russia
    has “repeatedly demonstrated that it does not respect the sovereignty of its neighbors and it is willing to use force to achieve its goals”, the 2015 National Military Strategy says.


    “Russia’s military actions are undermining regional security directly and through proxy forces.”


    It points to Russian troop presence in the Ukraine conflict, though Moscow denies it has deployed its military in eastern Ukraine to bolster a separatist insurgency.


    And the report expresses concern about states developing advanced technological capabilities that are causing the US military to lose its edge in that field.


    “When applied to military systems, this diffusion of technology is challenging competitive advantages long held by the United States such as early warning and precision strike,” the paper says.


    In addition to China and Russia, the paper also includes Iran and North Korea – highlighting their nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities – in a list of countries that pose “serious security concerns” to America and its allies.


    “Since the last national military strategy was published four years ago, global disorder has trended upward while some of our comparative advantages have begun to erode,” Dempsey told reporters.


    The 2011 report spoke little of Russia.


    US Navy: Beijing creating a 'great wall of sand' in South China Sea

    “China’s actions are adding tension to the Asia-Pacific region,” the document states, in reference to China’s land reclamation efforts to build islands in the contested South China sea to boost its military and civilian presence.

    America’s enormous military has an annual budget of about $600bn, dwarfing that of any other country.

    And faced with non-state adversaries like the self-proclaimed Islamic State group that has seized significant portions of Iraq and Syria, Dempsey warned of long and complex fights ahead.

    “Future conflicts will come more rapidly, last longer, and take place on a much more technically challenging battlefield,” he wrote in the foreword to the report.


    Violent extremist groups “pose an immediate threat to transregional security by coupling readily available technologies with extremist ideologies”, the report states.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nntrixie View Post
    American people are gullible - they just listen to what the TV tells them.

    Didn't anyone every teach them they should be skeptical, question, think for themselves?
    As we can see more and more every day, many were obviously taught the opposite.
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