in September for a new 35,000-strong paramilitary defence force because of tensions with Russia . Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz said top positions in the Territorial Defence Force had already been decided . The force will have civilian volunteers trained in military skills .
Just recently , Trump claimed President Obama founded ISIS . And then he repeated that nonsense over and over . This complaint might be taken seriously were it not a response to Clinton ’s lie that Trump is the “ recruitingpersonnel.startposition.nasergeant ” for ISIS . Trump ’s claim that Obama ( and Clinton ) “ founded ” ISIS , by allowing a vacuum in Iraq , is an exaggeration of what happened , but Clinton ’s claim that Americans are to blame for terror by criticizing Islam actually does the terrorists ’ work for them . 12 .
Before Hillary : Kosovo , which became independent in 2008 , initially granted its Serbian minority in northern Kosovo and Metohija some degree of self - government . After Hillary : In 2009 , Kosovo increasingly became a state ruled by criminal syndicates and terrorists of the former Kosovo Liberation Army . The rights of Serbs were increasingly marginalized and Kosovo became a prime recruitingpersonnel.startposition.naground for jihadist guerrillas in Arab countries subjected to Clinton ’s “ Arab Spring ” operations , including Libya and Syria . Clinton pressured states receiving U.S. aid and other U.S. allies to recognize Kosovo ’s independence . These included Pakistan , Palau , Maldives , St. Kitts - Nevis , Dominica , Fiji , Papua New Guinea , Burundi , East Timor , Haiti , Chad , Gambia , Brunei , Ghana , Kuwait , Ivory Coast , Gabon , St. Lucia , Benin , Niger , Guinea , Central African Republic , Andorra , Oman , Guinea - Bissau , Qatar , Tuvalu , Kiribati , Honduras , Somalia , Djibouti , Vanuatu , Swaziland , Mauritania , Malawi , New Zealand , Dominican Republic , Jordan , Bahrain , and Comoros .
Earlier Obama pulled back on his initial plans to reduce the number of American ground troops in Afghanistan from 9,800 to 5,500 . Instead some 8,400 US military personnel will remain in the country until at least the end of next year . The presence of foreign troops however will only help factions like Taliban in “ recruitingpersonnel.startposition.nayoung Muslim men , ” a former US Marine and State Department official , Matthew Hoh told RT . Back in 2009 Hoh became the first American official to resign in protest over US policies in Afghanistan . He said that American military units across the Middle East and Afghanistan in particular are only boosting chaos .
It ’s positioning itself as a scrappy dissenter to the old Western media ’s monopoly on information , a theme Simonyan emphasized to me in a statement for this story . Americans , she said , watch RT for “ stories , views and analysis they wo n’t find in the mainstream media . ” As for criticism of RT ’s coverage of the United States and the 2016 campaign , she sounded a positively Trumpian theme , saying RT ’s critics are “ mostly members of the U.S. political establishment , who are uncomfortable with losing the longtime monopoly on information . ” Seated next to Simonyan at the dinner and just two seats away from Putin himself was perhaps the most intriguing example of how the Russians have gone about recruitingpersonnel.startposition.nadisaffected members of that establishment : a rugged - looking man in a tuxedo who less than 18 months earlier had been head of the Defense Intelligence Agency , the Pentagon ’s powerful in - house equivalent of the CIA . Michael Flynn , now a private citizen after a reportedly disgruntled retirement , was not there to gather intelligence . His attendance at the RT gala , before which he also gave a talk on world affairs , appeared to inaugurate a relationship with the network — presumably a paid one , though neither Flynn nor RT answered queries on the subject .