Category talk:USA

USA and Russia

 * 'Putin Would Eat President Trump for Lunch', by Leonid Bershidsky, bloombergview.com, Jul. 31, 2015
 * In June, Trump told Fox News host Bill O'Reilly why he'd likely have a "great relationship" with the Russian leader. "He’s got a tremendous popularity in Russia, they love what he’s doing, they love what he represents," Trump said. "I was over in Moscow two years ago and I will tell you — you can get along with those people and get along with them well. You can make deals with those people. Obama can’t."
 * Can Donald Trump Build A Campaign To Last? by Jessica Taylor, npr.org, July 29, 2015.
 * Trump for President? Paul Craig Roberts, June 20, 2015 --Resup (talk) 08:33, 1 August 2015 (UTC)


 * "We are moving to a big war" (i.e. bigger conflict in Syria)- Says the former head of the intelligence department of the Ministry of Defense Michael Flynn, Kommersant (Rus), 21.12.2015. (google translate).
 * But if there is cooperation between Russia and USA, we don't really have to. ---Not a proxy war, but not a cooperation either at this point; no common vision of goals and means/ rules. If something is too arcane or plain idiotic, that does not work well for Russia. For the US, seems hard to see things as they are, not as they were set, or meant, to be. )
 * On government-to-government level, Russia would say (as in World Order-Putin interview to V Soloviev) that not only the US, but they too, have interests, and everybody should follow equally understood and applied transparent rules. (Any objections to that needs to be sent to Kremlin). --Resup (talk) 13:22, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

The 23rd Wing at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia announced it will send 12 A-10 Warthog attack planes and crews to Central and Eastern European to bolster NATO’s “Operation Atlantic Resolve,” an ongoing show of military might meant to deter Russian aggression in the region. Earlier there were plans to eliminate A-10s due to budget cuts --Resup (talk) 13:17, 15 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Beginning of March -announced 28.3.2016 Brennan visited Moscow


 * 30.3.16 A highly placed representative of the US president administration told Interfax that USA does not plan any joint operations with Russia to liberate Raqqa. (Earlier, an assistant head of Russian FM Oleg Syromolotov stated to Interfax that military departments in USA and Russia are discussing coordinating actions to liberate Raqqa. --Resup (talk) 18:24, 30 March 2016 (UTC)


 * 17 June 2016. Close encounter of the Navies (video) -Russia protests. --Resup (talk) 13:46, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Money and Men
"Some people just do not fit well into a highly skilled market-based economy. They are perfectly decent people,- we will send them off to Afghanistan. But they are not going to command a big price. You still want to get them most out of their abilities. But if their abilities leave them unable to earn much more than the poverty level ... we ought to do something additional for them..."-Warren Buffett.
 * (Among familiar characters, those who 'do not fit well' may include Strelkov, Mozgovoi for Novorossia, perhaps some American counterparts like Stanley McChrystal; perhaps Putin and Trump in their roles as politicians; and quite many, though not all, artists and scientists. Those who 'fit well' had diverse contributions-including the current pre-WW3 looking crisis ...--Resup (talk) 22:48, 10 September 2015 (UTC))

Legal Matters
The Rule Of Law No Longer Exists In Western Civilization — Paul Craig Roberts --Resup (talk) 10:09, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Foreign Policy consultants for election campaigns

 * Trump foreign policy team
 * Hillary Clinton team is said to have 'several hundred' advisers; on foreign policy, Jake Sullivan and Laura Rosenberger are at the helm.
 * --Resup (talk) 13:13, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Events
Explosions at USA military base in Japan reported (foxnews) --Resup (talk) 18:36, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Arrests

 * MOSCOW, December 25. /TASS/. Russian national A. Burkov (no name is given) was on December 13 detained in Tel Aviv airport and placed under arrest on US authorities’ warrant, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s commissioner for human rights, democracy and rule of law, Konstantin Dolgov, said in a comment posted on the ministry’s website Friday. "We hope the Israeli authorities will prevent extradition of A.Y.Burkov to the United States, where he, like many other Russian nationals, would surely be in for politicized and biased justice," Dolgov said. --Resup (talk) 15:20, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Not showing up on ATF or Interpol searches. There are records on arrestwarrant.org, unclear whether at all related.


 * Earlier, another man Yu. V. Efremov was arrested in Finalnd on a US warrant (said to be by a US branch of Interpol)-Novaia Gazeta, Russian FM, 23.12.2015. Efremov is a MOI colonel in reserve, formerly a sniper in Afghanistan campaign, a body guard team member of the former Defense Minister Shaposhnikov, and a spetznaz commander. He is said to attend a NSSF  firearm exhibition in USA in 2011 legally, and has visited Germany and Finland several times.--Resup (talk) 15:44, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
 * He does not come up Interpol on Interpol wanted search, --only another younger Efremov from Ukraine does...

Sources Discussion
Somehow US independents seem to be more visible in Russian sources (where Robert Parry, Steven Cohen, PC Roberts appear often enough and fairly upstream to spot them easily for a non-converted. While Russian opposition has considerably more visibility/traction at home, and quite enough abroad. Those guys at Citizen Initiative (mainpage) call for 'national dialogue' but it seems to me what they are quite inaudible and invisible in the US, so not a great chance for a dialogue to happen. Actually, not sure how a national dialogue in USA (on X, for anything)  is supposed to happen at all. It is a one way flow from the top through media to the ground level, seems to me. In Russia, much harsher top hand, yet people take more notice. Glad to know if that I am getting it all wrong.  --Resup (talk) 00:12, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Dancing with Bears, (with said to be (or is it?)  German -Russian pact in the making on top). Unsure what's going on here, but one could not really, full time, dance WITH the bear back in 1989, and right now, well, I guess, depends on what the dance is (and overall feels more like 1989 than later in 90's after the USSR collapse) --Resup (talk) 11:19, 27 June 2016 (UTC)


 * He has a biography on his page. Helmer has been wrong before but is always an interesting read with a good sense of humour. As to the German-Russian "pact", I wish it were true and certainly a lot of important people in Germany have turned from criticism of Merkel to pure anger after Brexit. But what makes me wonder is that he claims that Schäuble is involved, who has been the embodiment of loyalty for all of his political life. As to your previous post, I unfortunately agree that the "dissident" voices have absolutely no chance to get a hearing in the US media other than by those already convinced reading "fringe" outlets or watching RT. --CE (talk) 12:33, 27 June 2016 (UTC)


 * "National dialog" here seems to mean national, of the nation, its people, or government, or anything, in a friendlier tone. It does seem to be trying for as close to official as possible, but it wasn't close. They did get the mayor of Salem, Oregon to send regards. Might be a Llama exchange program in the works (I made that up). Some fairly esteemed folks, but clearly not in or out of the State Department or even a top-tier think tank, etc. anytime soon. Glad they did it, especially the Crimea visit to show the other side of (Crimexit?), if only to show how lacking such initiatives are among our decrepit-minded official class. --Caustic Logic (talk) 14:03, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Elections

 * Donald Trump to Meet With Senator Joni Ernst, a Possible Running Mate, NY Times, July 4, 2016. --Resup (talk) 19:52, 4 July 2016 (UTC)