Mod: This is clearly called treason. Trump betrayed our troops to the enemy. There is no more serious crime than that.
Trump administration has refused to respond after learning Russia offered bounties for killing US troops (
Raw Storylink):
President Donald Trump has refused to authorize any response after being briefed that
Russia was offering bounties for the killing of
U.S. troops, according to a bombshell new report in
The New York Times.
“
American intelligence officials have concluded that a
Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to
Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in
Afghanistan— including targeting
American troops — amid the peace talks to end the long-running war there,” the newspaper reported, citing “officials briefed on the matter.”
“The
United States concluded months ago that the
Russian unit, which has been linked to assassination attempts and other covert operations in
Europe intended to destabilize the
West or take revenge on turncoats, had covertly offered rewards for successful attacks last year,”
The Times explained.
“
Islamist militants, or armed criminal elements closely associated with them, are believed to have collected some bounty money, the officials said. Twenty
Americans were killed in combat in
Afghanistan in 2019, but it was not clear which killings were under suspicion.”
Trump was offered options to respond, but has taken no action. “The intelligence finding was briefed to
President Trump, and the
White House’s National Security Council discussed the problem at an interagency meeting in late March, the officials said.
Officials developed a menu of potential options — starting with making a diplomatic complaint to
Moscow and a demand that it stop, along with an escalating series of sanctions and other possible responses, but the
White House has yet to authorize any step, the officials said,” the newspaper explained.
“Any involvement with the
Taliban that resulted in the deaths of
American troops would also be a huge escalation of
Russia’s so-called hybrid war against the
United States, a strategy of destabilizing adversaries through a combination of such tactics as cyberattacks, the spread of fake news and covert and deniable military operations.”
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