not only that part of the world , they ’ll take over this country , " Trump told backers in Ocala , Fla. Repeatedly predicting dire consequences if he loses the election , Trump said at one point that " our country has never been so low " and " I 'm ashamed with what 's happened to our country , and so are you . " Citing the WikiLeaks document dumps of emails from the Clinton campaign , Trump recited a litany of accusations that include double dealing and special favors for contributors to the Clinton Foundation , " cashing in " on government service , and claims that the Justice Department protected the former secretary of State during the email investigation .
MIKE PENCE : The United States of America needs to begin to exercise strong leadership to protect the vulnerable citizens and over 100,000 children in Aleppo . Hillary Clinton ’s top priority when she became secretary of state was the Russian reset , the Russian reset . After the Russian reset , the Russians invaded Ukraine and took overgovernment.formation.mergegpeCrimea . And the small and bullying leader of Russia is now dictating terms to the United States to the point where all the United States of America , the greatest nation on Earth , just withdraws from talks about a ceasefire , while Vladimir Putin puts a missile defense system in Syria while he marshals the forces and begins — look , we have got to begin to lean into this with strong , broad - shouldered American leadership . It begins by rebuilding our military .
This week , Trump also repeated his support for torture , which would be a war crime under international law and has been opposed by every president since George Washington . Trump went even further and said he wanted to change the Geneva Conventions to allow torture , a view that would be aggressively opposed by every leader of every nation throughout the free world whether they come from the left or right . In recent months , Trump has taken a position of appeasement toward aggressive and illegal actions by Russia under Vladimir Putin to annexgovernment.formation.mergegpeCrimea and destabilize Ukraine . On most of these issues , Pence — to his great credit — has already publicly stated his opposition to Trump 's views , often with clarity and strength as matters of high principle and national security . Can Pence be a party to the election of a president who has had kind word for current - day dictators like North Korea 's Kim Jong - un and retweets the words of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini , whose actions promoted the crimes that gave rise to the treaty that formed NATO in the first place — a treaty which Trump would violate so casually today ?
Kilimnik “ was always smart enough to get close to the money , and there was good money working for Akhmetov , ” said a fellow Russian who was a longtime acquaintance . At the time , Akhmetov was assembling a team of consultants to burnish the reputation of his business . It was facing regulatory action from a new government that had taken overgovernment.formation.mergegpewhen Yanukovych , who had been prime minister , lost his hold on power after his party tried to rig an October 2004 election to make him president . Kilimnik was recruited to join Manafort ’s team by a former IRI official named Philip M. Griffin , who had worked with Kilimnik at the institute . When IRI officials found out , they asked Kilimnik to resign for violating the nonprofit ’s moonlighting prohibition .
Navalny said the man later had to be hospitalized . Five others , including Navalny himself , also suffered injuries . Cossack paramilitaries , who style themselves as conservative patriots , helped Russia annexgovernment.formation.mergegpeCrimea from Ukraine in 2014 . Cossack militia members also attacked the Pussy Riot punk group with whips and teargas at the Winter Olympics host city of Sochi in 2014 as they tried to perform a song mocking Vladimir Putin . Navalny , 39 , who has accused top government officials from the president downwards of graft , is one of the most high profile leaders of the country 's small liberal opposition and the founder of Russia 's Anti - corruption Foundation .
It also has less money to spend because of air attacks on its exports of crude oil , combined with the fall in the price of oil . Iraqi security forces in Baghdad on Monday , preparing to travel to Mosul to fight Isis ( Reuters ) The Baghdad government continued to pay the salaries of public servants in Mosul even after Isis took overgovernment.formation.mergegpe, but Ibrahim said that money stopped coming through nine months ago . “ I have spent almost all my savings , ” he said . “ Last year , $ 500 a month was enough for a family to live on , but now even $ 1,000 is not enough because prices are twice or even five times what they used to be . ”
You look at Ukraine . He talks about Ukraine how tough he is , right ? How tough he is with Russia in the meantime they took overgovernment.formation.mergegpeCrimea . I understood that and most papers covered what I said accurately and some did n't because the press is so dishonest . Crimea , I mean , the Russians took it over under Obama 's very powerful leadership .
Russia could overrun Nato ’s current military force in the Baltic states in a matter of hours , according to a US think - tank , leaving the Western alliance with few options but to concede the loss of some of its most vulnerable members . In a damning report , the US Army - linked Rand Corporation said Nato ’s military assets in Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania were so mismatched with Russia as to be “ inviting a devastating war , rather than deterring it ” . The think - tank said it carried out a series of war games exploring a scenario in which Russia tried to annexgovernment.formation.mergegpethe capitals of either Estonia , Latvia , or both , similarly to how it seized the peninsula of Crimea in 2014 . “ The outcome was , bluntly , a disaster for Nato , ” the report found , with every playthrough of events ending with Russian forces in or at the gates of Tallinn and Riga within 60 hours . With Russia outnumbering Nato ground battalions by almost two to one , and possessing much heavier weaponry than the Baltic defence forces , some simulations had the capitals falling in as little as 36 hours from the start of hostilities .
And what I ’d like to know is , that annex that was close by , were they involved with procuring , buying , selling , obtaining weapons and were any of these weapons being transferred to other countries ? Any countries , Turkey included ? Clinton : Well , Senator you ’ll have to direct that question to the agency that ran the annexgovernment.formation.mergegpe. And , I will see what information was available . Paul : You ’re saying you do n’t know ?
" This is exactly the type of irresponsible and dangerous intercepts that the air - to - air annex to CUES is supposed to prevent , " said Greg Poling , director of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at Washington 's Center for Strategic and International Studies think - tank . Poling said either some part of China 's air force " had n't gotten the message , " or it was meant as a signal of displeasure with recent U.S. freedom of navigation actions in the South China Sea . " If the latter , it would be very disappointing to find China sacrificing the CUES annexgovernment.formation.mergegpefor political gamesmanship . " Zhang Baohui , a security expert at Hong Kong 's Lingnan University , said he believed the encounter highlighted the limitation of CUES , and shows that Chinese pilots would still fly close to U.S. surveillance planes if needed . " Frankly , we 're always going to see these kinds of incidents as China will always put the priority on national security over something like CUES whenever it feels its interests are directly threatened , " he said .
The failure of the federal government to take strong and aggressive action against the MSAs is yet another indicator of their catastrophic incompetence and criminal negligence . ” The Muslim Brotherhood goals and strategies are found on many websites , proclaiming their objective to create and rule a world - wide Islamic Empire , called a “ caliphate ” . “ The Daily Journalist ” website says that The Muslim Brotherhood , also known as “ Ikhwan ” in Arabic , has over 2,000 branches in 70 countries , and has a plan to reach world domination by building an unbreakable network , planning to eventually take overgovernment.formation.mergegpea country through elections . The blueprint of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States is slow infiltration through superb organization with the objective that Islam will discreetly grow under the radar until it is too late to reverse its power . Among the Muslim Brotherhood ’s many affiliated organizations is CAIR – or the Council on American Islamic Relations – which serves as the public relations arm for the organization .
He has his own set of strange beliefs . He admires dictators and may well be heavily influenced by one . Trump ’s web of ties to Putin , who has a record of attempting to manipulate foreign elections , looks even more dangerous considering his green light to Russia to annexgovernment.formation.mergegpethe Baltic NATO states . In light of the risks presented by Trump , who might break the rule of law and the democratic form of government , his party has offered a strange message . Rather than tamp down the fears of what he would do , they have inflamed them .
I said , Boris , you surely do n't believe that I would use an air base in Poland to bomb Western Russia . He said , of course you would n't . But , a lot of little old ladies in Western Russia think you would , which is why Putin got so much support when he took overgovernment.formation.mergegpeCrimea . He said , look , Bill , he said countries are like individuals , they have hopes and fears , dreams and nightmares . You did n't ever have Napoleon or Hitler all the way up in your belly .
Kissinger has also criticized both parties for taking an overly confrontational stance on Ukraine . “ The West must understand that , to Russia , Ukraine can never be just a foreign country , ” Kissinger wrote in a March 2014 Washington Post op - ed . But even Kissinger , in his op - ed , called it “ incompatible with the rules of the existing world order for Russia to annexgovernment.formation.mergegpeCrimea . ” That is the clear position not just of the Obama administration , but also of the Republican Party platform approved in Cleveland at last week ’s GOP convention . While Trump officials reportedly blocked a move to add language calling for the U.S. shipment of weapons to Ukraine ’s government , the platform does include a firm passage about Putin ’s aggression there .
In my 30 + years of reporting I ’ve seen my fair share of man ’s inhumanity to man . There was 9/11 , Vince Foster ’s “ suicide , ” and the time I was held hostage by Russian security forces . But this weekend , I saw a sea change in American politics when Cliven Bundy ’s sons took overgovernment.formation.mergegpea rural wildlife refuge in Eastern Oregon . This kind of angry armed uprising represents a new chapter in our politics , a departure from the days when responsible leaders like Tip O’Neill and Ronald Reagan could set aside the parenthetical letters at the end of their names and share a laugh . No , this is a new politics , a rancorous time of low - intensity warfare , partisanship , and complete disregard for the importance of balanced budgets .
And Russia , which has killed hundreds of civilians in Syria — many of them children — was not fingered in Ban ’s most recent report . The Houthis , as this month ’s report does make clear , are also responsible for gross violations of human rights . On June 9 , after days of outcry from human rights groups , Ban gave his news conference in which he essentially conceded that the decision to take the Saudis from the annexgovernment.formation.mergegpewas made to protect U.N. financing , and not because of the merits of Riyadh ’s complaints . On June 9 , Ban essentially conceded that the decision to take the Saudis from the annex was made to protect UN financing . A flummoxed Mouallimi spoke soon after , and , once again , rebutted Ban .
Referring to areas in the West Bank and present - day Israel , Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett , a member of the ultra - nationalist Jewish Home party , said : " We will build in Sarona and Kiryat Arba , in Jaffa and Jerusalem , in Itamar and Beersheba . " Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel , the girl 's cousin and a key figure in the Israeli settlement movement , said building settlements was needed " now more than ever " and called for " Israeli sovereignty " in the West Bank . Yehuda Glick , a far - right Israeli politician , called for Israel to annexgovernment.formation.mergegpethe West Bank and Jewish - Israelis to increase their excursions into the al - Aqsa Mosque compound , the third holiest site for Muslims . More than 530,000 Israelis live in settlements - considered illegal under international law - across the West Bank , according to the Israeli rights group B'Tselem . Source : Al Jazeera
Government officials are hopeful that the scheme helps to create an influx of more than 36 million people to the region . That optimistic estimate is especially important along the region 's southern borders , where fewer than 6 million Russians currently face more than 90 million Chinese . The Kremlin is deeply concerned that China may one day find the need to annexgovernment.formation.mergegpelarge swaths of Russian wilderness . " The vast expanses of Siberia would provide not just room for China 's huddled masses , now squeezed into the coastal half of their country by the mountains and deserts of western China , " writes Frank Jacobs for the New York Times . " The land is already providing China , ' the factory of the world , ' with much of its raw materials , especially oil , gas and timber .
His support of Trump is not a surprise for me because he wants to see an alternative world and he wants to be a world leader . And obviously , with Trump , it will be much easier for Putin to execute his internal and external policies — and quite brutal ones . When Mr. Trump says he would n't support NATO allies , such as the Baltic countries , this would give Putin much more freedom to annexgovernment.formation.mergegpethose territories . Trump talks about making America great again — taking it back to an earlier time when things were supposedly better . Does Putin have any of that ?
But Putin ’s comments are at odds with how the network operates in practice , according to interviews with people who closely watch or have worked at RT , and my own hours of monitoring the network and its website . One former RT staffer in Washington told me that she left her job , along with others who have also spoken to the media , after seeing the network ’s Moscow - based editors instruct journalists to make their coverage hew to the Moscow - approved political line . Such concerns erupted into full view a couple years ago when Russia marched into neighboring Ukraine to annexgovernment.formation.mergegpethe Crimean Peninsula , leading a 28-year - old RT presenter named Liz Wahl to quit on - air , declaring , “ I can not be a part of a network funded by the Russian government that whitewashes the actions of Putin . ” Just under the surface is a bought - and - paid - for propaganda vehicle trying to nudge viewers toward Russia ’s side of the story at a time when Moscow has increasingly become an international pariah . Today , it ’s clear RT operates less as the free and independent news source Putin touted , and more as a vehicle that increasingly uses the available tools of the digital revolution — from viral videos ( “ Animated Genitals , ” “ Lawnmower Explodes ” ) to entertainingly snarky tweets — to promote Russia ’s message .
And I would have taken out a lot of oil . And , uh , I would have kept it . I mean , I would have kept it , because , look : Iran has the oil , and they ’re going to have the oil , well , the stuff they do n’t have , because Iran is taking overgovernment.formation.mergegpeIraq as sure as you ’re sitting there . And I ’ve been very good on this stuff . My prognostications , my predictions have become , have been very accurate , if you look .
( photo credit : REUTERS ) In a contentious move , Naidm Koteich , a well - known Lebanese political analyst revealed his support for Israeli annexation of the currently embattled Syrian city of Aleppo , arguing that were this scenario to take place , the city would have been peaceful , like the Golan . In a comment he wrote on his Twitter page , Koteich expressed dismay over the absence of an Israeli move to annexgovernment.formation.mergegpeAleppo . Relevant to your professional network ? Please share on Linkedin
She will “ stand up ” to Bad Vlad . She ’s targeted by Russian hackers because Putin prefers his “ unwitting agent ” Donald Trump . And Donald is , according to an emerging narrative , a latter - day Neville Chamberlain just inviting the Ruskies to take overgovernment.formation.mergegpethe Baltic States , Ukraine , and God knows what else . The greatest irony of all is that Trump catapulted over the Neocons ’ preferred presidential options by slamming their pet project – the War on Iraq . Trump ’s criticism of that war and the chaos it unleashed resonated with the very voters the Neocons took for granted as pliable , fear - responsive bumpkins .
You can mark it down . You can put it down . " When informed that Putin invaded Crimea -- an autonomous part of Ukraine -- two years ago to annexgovernment.formation.mergegpeit to Russia , Trump responded , " Well , he 's there in a certain way . But I 'm not there yet ; Obama is there . And frankly , that whole part of the world is a mess under Obama .
“ It very much falls into the tactic of intimidation , which Russia has been using against its neighbors for quite some time . ” Russia is in the process of a reinforcement of its western flank , in response to what it claims are aggressive actions undertaken by NATO , to rotate around 4,000 allied troops across Estonia , Lithuania , Poland and Latvia . The decision to do so was taken by the alliance after numerous concerns voiced by NATO ’s Eastern European allies who worried Russia ’s willingness and ability to annexgovernment.formation.mergegpeCrimea from Ukraine in 2014 and prompt an insurgency in the country ’s east could be replicated on their territory . NATO denies the reinforcement measure is intended as anything but defensive . What is more , Russia ’s increased unannounced incursions near allied airspace and mass snap drills near border regions have convinced the alliance that more attention must be paid to Moscow ’s military resurgence .
That ’s , nobody ’s ever raised that with me . Paul : It ’s been in news reports that ships have been leaving from Libya and that they may have weapons . And what I ’d like to know is , that annexgovernment.formation.mergegpethat was close by , were they involved with procuring , buying , selling , obtaining weapons and were any of these weapons being transferred to other countries ? Any countries , Turkey included ? Clinton : Well , Senator you ’ll have to direct that question to the agency that ran the annex .
And we are not getting any explanations for this , " Poroshenko said . The president added that Russia had failed to implement any aspect of 2015 's Minsk Agreement , a ceasefire pact between Kiev and Moscow in Belarus . This came a year after Russia sent troops to annexgovernment.formation.mergegpeUkraine 's Crimea region . Today , fighting continues in the east of Ukraine between government forces and pro - Russian rebels , despite the ceasefire . On Monday , Poroshenko met in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel , who was party to the Minsk Agreement last year .