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Reply #5800 on: August 23, 2019, 11:46:37 PM
Trump’s new press secretary was arrested for DUI while working on the 2016 campaign during her rocky rise to the White House

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White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham had a tumultuous rise to her prestigious role in US politics.

Grisham faced allegations of ethical misconduct in previous jobs and was twice arrested for driving under the influence.

One of the DUIs took place while Grisham worked as a press aide for Trump's 2016 campaign.

Grisham has taken an unconventional approach to her White House post, and hasn't held a single on-camera briefing since she took over for Sarah Huckabee Sanders in early July.

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White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham had a "turbulent ascent" to her current role, according to a New York Times report, which included two arrests for driving under the influence — one of which while working for Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.

She was arrested for driving under the influence, speeding, and driving with an invalid license in 2013, according to the report, and the charges were later reduced to reckless driving. Grisham was also arrested for driving under the influence in December 2015, ultimately pleading guilty. She paid a fine and was ordered by the court into a treatment program.

Grisham told the Times she "complied with all sanctions and disclosed both episodes to the White House."

Grisham entered the political world by way of Arizona, working as a spokesperson for the attorney general in the state as well as Republicans in the state legislature. She also worked as a press aide on Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign for president.

Prior to that, she worked for the AAA auto club in Arizona as well as the ad agency Mindspace.

Grisham reportedly left AAA after facing allegations of filing false claims for travel and other expenses and lost the job at Mindspace for plagiarism.

A spokesperson for AAA declined to discuss personnel matters with the Times, and the founder of the ad agency confirmed Grisham was a former employee but would not elaborate on the circumstances of her departure.

Grisham did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.

Here's a brief summary of Grisham's experience in the political world:
Grisham worked as a spokesperson for the Arizona Charter Schools Association from 2008 to mid-2010.

She was a spokesperson for Tom Horne, Arizona's attorney general, in 2011.

Grisham went on to work as a press aide for Mitt Romney in 2012, and in a 2017 interview said she was "devastated" for about a month after his loss in the presidential election.

Grisham went back to Horne's office after 2012.

During her work for Horne, he was under investigation for alleged campaign finance violations. When reporters from a local paper asked questions about it, Grisham characterized their requests as "overreaching, an invasion of privacy and abusive use of your role in the media."

After Horne lost his bid for re-election (and was fined over the campaign finance case), Grisham went to work as a spokesperson for Arizona House's Republican majority.

At one point, Grisham briefly revoked the press credentials of the The Arizona Capitol Times after it published a story on allegations the GOP House Speaker David Gowan traveled on the taxpayers' dime while campaigning for Congress.

Grisham began working for Trump's campaign in mid-2015 as a press aide.

Starting in 2017, Grisham initially served as White House deputy press secretary, but eventually moved on to become communications director for First Lady Melania Trump.

In June 2019, it was announced Grisham would replace Sarah Huckabee Sanders as White House press secretary.

Grisham is a fierce defender of the Trumps, but also represents a break from the traditional mold of her prestigious role in the White House.

Grisham hasn't held an on-camera briefing since taking over in early July and does not appear particularly interested in engaging with members of the press.

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Reply #5801 on: August 23, 2019, 11:48:04 PM
El Paso, Dayton hospitals deny Trump claim of doctors leaving OR to meet him

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Hospitals in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio are denying President Trump's claim this week that doctors left operating rooms to meet him during his trips to visit the survivors and first-responders of this month's deadly mass shootings.

Speaking to reporters at the White House Wednesday, Trump said "the doctors were coming out of the operating rooms” to greet him.

“There were hundreds and hundreds of people all over the floor. You couldn’t even walk on it,” he said.

But both hospitals have confirmed that doctors did not leave any patients or operating rooms to meet the president in the wake of the mass shootings, which left more than 30 dead. 

“At no time did, or would, physicians or staff leave active operating rooms during the presidential visit,” Ryan Mielke, a spokesperson for University Medical Center of El Paso, said in a statement to The Washington Post. “Our priority is always patient care.”

None of the eight patients who were still hospitalized at University Medical Center at the time agreed to meet with Trump during his trip on Aug. 7, the hospital confirmed to the Post.

“This is a very sensitive time in their lives,” Mielke said. “Some of them said they didn’t want to meet with the president, some of them didn’t want any visitors."

Ben Sutherly, a spokesperson for Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, also confirmed that no doctors left operating rooms to meet with the president during his visit earlier that same day.

“Our physicians and staff at no time leave an active operating room, procedural area or patient room to greet anyone," Sutherly said.

Trump lashed out at the media after the visits, accusing reporters of saying “nobody would meet” with him when he traveled to the two cities after the shootings.

“The love for me — and me, maybe, as a representative of the country — but for me — and my love for them was unparalleled. These are incredible people. But if you read the papers, it was like nobody would meet with me,” Trump said.

“Not only did they meet with me, they were pouring out of the room,” he continued.

White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement that the president and first lady Melania Trump were “received very warmly by not just victims and their families, but by the many members of medical staff who lined the hallways to meet them. It was a moving visit for all involved.”

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Reply #5802 on: August 24, 2019, 06:15:51 PM
Let’s ‘gut check’ all of Trump’s vulgar, unpresidential statements

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It was an exemplary week for presidential misbehavior.

President Trump had an international tantrum over Denmark’s refusal to sell him Greenland.

He invoked the anti-Semitic trope that American Jews have a dual loyalty to Israel.

He proclaimed himself the Messiah.

Along the way, he used shooting victims for self-promotion, said he wanted a medal for military valor, and more.

In this divided land, there is broad agreement on one thing: Our president is unpresidential.

A Post/ABC News poll released last month found that two-thirds of Americans find Trump “unpresidential” and only 28 percent say his actions are “fitting and proper.” Trump himself has acknowledged that some of his behavior is “not at all ‘Presidential’.”

It’s hard to say for sure whether Trump was more undignified this week compared with most others. This is, after all, a man who boasted publicly about his genitals, uses words such as “bull----,” “p---y,” “goddamn” and “little Schitt” in public, misspells tweets, talks of women bleeding, proclaims himself a “stable genius” with a “very large brain,” “fell in love” with North Korea’s dictator, paid hush money to a porn actress, shoved a prime minister, wore an ill-fitting vest to visit Queen Elizabeth and praised the “shape” of France’s first lady.

He also let Kanye West loose in the Oval Office, prayed for higher ratings for “The Apprentice” at a prayer breakfast , spoke of “raking” forests, hugged an American flag, dragged toilet paper from his shoe, suggested the Clintons murdered Jeffrey Epstein, described neo-Nazis as “very fine people,” and, when told by a rape victim that the Islamic State killed her family, replied: “Where are they now?”

But maybe there is a way to calibrate vulgarity. Post Fact Checker Glenn Kessler and his team have documented more than 12,000 false or misleading statements by Trump using the Pinocchio system: from one Pinocchio for “shading” facts to four for “whoppers.” Rare, unexpectedly true statements earn a Geppetto.

Instead of a fact check, I propose a “gut check” of how unpresidential Trump is. Instead of Geppetto and Pinocchio, this uses Beauty and the Beast. Where Kessler’s work is objective and researched, this will be arbitrary and slapdash — like Trump’s policies.

One Beast: Routinely unpresidential.

Two Beasts: Extra gross, vulgar, narcissistic.

Three Beasts: Downright beastly, uncouth, uncivilized.

Four Beasts: A wild rumpus. We weep for our country.

On the rare instances when he behaves in a “presidential” manner (usually a teleprompter is involved), he will be assigned a “Beauty.”

This week, the Gut Checker awards Trump one Beast each for:

● Again describing the “evil” free press with the Stalinist phrase “Enemy of the People.”

● Promoting Sean Spicer on “Dancing With the Stars.”

● Boasting about breaking Elton John’s crowd-size record.

● Badgering the Federal Reserve chairman he appointed as the “enemy” and “a golfer who can’t putt.”

● Describing Fox News’s Juan Williams as “pathetic,” sycophantic, “nasty and wrong.”

● Threatening not to let Fox News host a presidential debate because he didn’t like his favorite network’s latest poll.

● Threatening to release Islamic State fighters into Germany and France.

● Claiming Google “manipulated” some 16 million votes in 2016.

All routine breaches of decorum for Trump. All unpresidential.

The Gut Checker awards two Beasts each for:

● Telling reporters he might not vacate the White House for “maybe 10 or maybe 14” years — regardless of what the Constitution says; and using imaginary powers to say U.S. companies are “hereby ordered” to find alternatives to Chinese markets.

● Resuming his attacks on four nonwhite women in Congress, mocking one’s “tears” and accusing her of being “violent.”

● Calling former aide Anthony Scaramucci a “highly unstable ‘nut job’ ” and a “mental wreck” guilty of “gross incompetence.”

Three Beasts:

● Saying hospitalized victims of mass shootings paid tribute to him. “They love their president,” he said, in an “unparalleled” way. “They were pouring out of the rooms. The doctors were coming out of the operating rooms.”

● Expressing desire to receive the Medal of Honor, the highest award for valor against an enemy force, despite draft deferments for bone spurs. “I wanted one, but they told me I don’t qualify. . . . I’d say, ‘Can I give it to myself anyway?’ They said, ‘I don’t think that’s a good idea.’ ”

● Tweeting the words of a racist conspiracy theorist who said Israelis view Trump like “the King of Israel” and “the second coming of God.” He later claimed he’s “the chosen one.”

Four Beasts:

● Canceling his trip to Denmark and twice calling its prime minister “nasty” because she labeled as “absurd” Trump’s absurd plan to buy Greenland.

● Accusing nearly 80 percent of American Jews of ignorance or “great disloyalty,” and after an outcry by Jewish leaders, repeating the slander.

One week, zero beauties and 31 beasts — a full herd and, by any measure, an impressive stable of rude, crude and undignified behavior. But if we as a nation can agree that our president is unpresidential, experience should also allow us to agree on this: Next week might well be worse.

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Reply #5803 on: August 26, 2019, 08:42:28 PM


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Reply #5804 on: August 26, 2019, 08:45:53 PM
Hurricanes are driven by convection.  Throwing more heat in there could plausibly make it worse.



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Reply #5805 on: August 27, 2019, 03:22:14 AM
I can't think of a better way to spread lethal radiation across the planet.



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Reply #5806 on: August 28, 2019, 10:12:31 PM
Spanky's behavior ar the G7 indicates that he is still in Putin's pocket.  He also declined to join in a statement about the importance of democratic institutions in government.



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Reply #5807 on: August 29, 2019, 02:01:27 AM
I have yet to view the actual 'statement', the noted 'Joint' one, and am not sure if that is what you reference, or if there was some other 'statement' regarding democratic institutions in government.

Not sure why, but none of the critical releases give the text of any statements.

I did read some details about President Trump's objection to Canada's news conference, and what he deemed as a insult from Canada's PM Justin Trudeau, regarding how there was disagreement about 'Trump's tariffs', to which the President took exception. The same tweet, noted this was the reason he decided to rescind U.S. agreement with a joint statement.

This action was a direct rebuff to PM Trudeau's previous announcement about said statement having had all G7 Nations support. The president went on in his announcement via Twitter, regarding Canada's unfair tariffs, and how the U.S. is looking at further ways to counter such, noting a 280% Dairy tariff, as well as adjusting import tariffs on Canadian automobiles.

I had originally thought perhaps our President was stewing about being sand bagged by France who invited someone from IRAN to the G7 meeting, but seems Canada is who President Trump noted in stating the reason for withdraw of the 'statement', thus making the agreement no longer Universal.


Spanky's behavior ar the G7 indicates that he is still in Putin's pocket.  He also declined to join in a statement about the importance of democratic institutions in government.

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Reply #5808 on: August 29, 2019, 03:26:00 AM
Everytime Trump breaks an agreement he sends the message:

The United States can't be trusted.

As for the democracy thing:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-g7-putin-russia-ukraine-877032/

“The entire 44-year vision of the G-7 gathering, according to the non-U.S. participants, is to hash out global issues among like-minded democracies. So the discussion quickly turned even more fundamental: whether the leaders should assign any special weight to being a democracy, officials said.

Most of the other participants forcefully believed the answer was yes. Trump believed the answer was no. The pushback against him was delivered so passionately that the U.S. president’s body language changed as one leader after another dismissed his demand, according to a senior official who watched the exchange. He crossed his arms. His stance became more combative.”



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Reply #5809 on: August 29, 2019, 04:03:33 AM
Thank you, Lois. Wiki also has a interesting detailed, at least by year, as to the 1998 Joining of G8 (formerly G7) by Russia, invited by UK and US at that time.

Seems Germany, Italy, and others wanted Russia to be included again in 2016, 2017, and so Trump was not alone, for the reasons stated in the Wiki writing, that many topics can only be resolved, meaningfully addressed, with Russia at the table.

I will give the Wiki link, for any interested. The middle east is not seriously addressed by many of the G7 nations, and requires Russia if serious change in that part of the world will be forthcoming. Of course, each Nation must and is expected to vote in it's own direct interests. Seems the US preparation for our interests, regarding Russia being invited to rejoin, was lacking... or the other 6 members changed in some way, from the expected response we anticipated.

As to any vote regarding restricting membership to "democracies", I can see how such an agreement would be seen as blocking Russia in the future, and would require a US rebuff, since having Russia as a partner, so as to move on our interests in the Middle East, and other world wide issues, overrides for the US what other equal members of this group desire. It is consistent, at least.

Thank you. I still have not found the joint statement text, and am sure it is out there online somewhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_Eight

As to "The United States Cannot Be Trusted", my reaction is that those who say these things, who believe such a statement, simply are not paying attention, when the message they MUST understand, if not before, certainly made perfectly clear over the past three years, is our interest is: America First.

When some idea has circulated which is directly not in our clearly stated interest, who would expect the U.S. to vote against our own interest. If there is a good argument about how some item could be worthy of a US vote, or affirmation, and is in keeping with America First, then the Nation(s) harboring such goal, agreement by the US, need to make the case directly to the US, not publicly, not via statements to leftist opposition media, but directly, in a format which commands President Trump's respect, to be successful.



Everytime Trump breaks an agreement he sends the message:

The United States can't be trusted.

As for the democracy thing:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-g7-putin-russia-ukraine-877032/

“The entire 44-year vision of the G-7 gathering, according to the non-U.S. participants, is to hash out global issues among like-minded democracies. So the discussion quickly turned even more fundamental: whether the leaders should assign any special weight to being a democracy, officials said.

Most of the other participants forcefully believed the answer was yes. Trump believed the answer was no. The pushback against him was delivered so passionately that the U.S. president’s body language changed as one leader after another dismissed his demand, according to a senior official who watched the exchange. He crossed his arms. His stance became more combative.”

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Reply #5810 on: August 29, 2019, 05:01:14 AM
"The United States cannot be trusted" applies when persons like Trump decide to overturn previously established treaties.  It says to the world that the US can only be trusted with each presidency.

Breaking treaties is unprescedented.  Yet Trump has done so with the Paris Accords, NAFTA and other decisions by previous administrations.  It suggests that a democracy cannot be trusted past it's latest election.  Other Presidents realized this, and di not go out of their way to scrap everything done by their predecessors.  When this is done it destroys the reputation of the country and leads others to belive: The United States cannot be trusted.



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Reply #5811 on: August 29, 2019, 05:28:54 AM
Which of the items that concern you are actually Treaties?

   Maybe NAFTA, which has been awaiting House action for a long time, the revised agreement for NAFTA that is. President Trump submitted it for Legislature action to insure the revised agreement is what we agree upon, and give it the force of LAW, of course.

   The Paris Accords is not, never was, a Treaty. Congress never voted, or was even asked to consider it as a Treaty, if I remember correctly. It 'is' a pledge, to which we continue to ascribe in practice, I believe, but which we no longer are obligated, now or into the future. Another 'non-Treaty' which is/was not intended as America First in it's intent, or in it's final product. Likely WHY this was never submitted to Congress, never acted upon by Congress.

  Perhaps you forgot to add The Iran Agreement or whatever it was called more formally, also definitely not intended as America First, never submitted as would have been an actual Treaty for approval or action by Congress, for the very reason it would not have achieved President Obama's intended results.

   Who in Congress would have voted to have pallets of foreign currency sent in unmarked aircraft, dead of night delivery at our enemy's specified landing strip with little to no accountability, (except to President Obama's  closest friend... Valerie June Jarrett, the 'would have been' Senator from IL... That scandal was nicely paved over, and the Ex Governor of IL is paying the price today for his refusal of President Obama's "suggestion".)

   (Valerie Jarrett lives today with the Obamas', in their 8 Million mansion, next to the largest Mosque in DC. I am sure they all enjoy the 'call to prayers' five times daily. Wonder if she will be moving to Martha's Vineyard soon..)

  Anyway, what 'Treaties' has President Trump refused to honor, so far?


"The United States cannot be trusted" applies when persons like Trump decide to overturn previously established treaties.  It says to the world that the US can only be trusted with each presidency.

Breaking treaties is unprescedented.  Yet Trump has done so with the Paris Accords, NAFTA and other decisions by previous administrations.  It suggests that a democracy cannot be trusted past it's latest election.  Other Presidents realized this, and di not go out of their way to scrap everything done by their predecessors.  When this is done it destroys the reputation of the country and leads others to belive: The United States cannot be trusted.

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Reply #5812 on: August 31, 2019, 03:56:54 AM
Whether treaty or agreement does not really matter, they are both agreements. Countries that do not keep their agreements can't be trusted.



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Reply #5813 on: August 31, 2019, 04:55:17 AM
Had President Obama been able to obtain agreement, he would have submitted what he wanted as his legacy to the Treaty process. He declined, and forced his will without wide agreement within the US, without a full airing of what he wanted to do, and therefore, using Executive Orders, or just Orders, created law or what amounted to, was respected as "law", out of whole cloth.

Such EO's, or O's, are subject to change by equally determined Presidents and have been changed... dragging the Courts into what should not be their area, being EO's or unlawful Orders, as they slow this President from his/our goals.
Our being those Sixty whatever million voters who won the election, fair and square... the old fashioned way, by winning the most Electoral College votes.

What other countries think about the US, when regarding non-Treaty worthy statements by our Politicians, is on those other counties, who one hopes are each acting in their own National Interests, regardless of what is in the United States National Interests.


Whether treaty or agreement does not really matter, they are both agreements. Countries that do not keep their agreements can't be trusted.

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Reply #5814 on: August 31, 2019, 07:46:43 PM
Foreign relations have nothing to do with your concepts of how things work.  Among nations it has always been a given that countries stand by their agreements.  Otherwise, why would anyone ever make an agreement with ANY Democratic Republic knowing the next adminstration might just disregard the agreement?

It goes towards precedent.  Once you become known as a country that does not stand by its agreements, that country has a reputation for not being trustworthy.

It is as simple as that.



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Reply #5815 on: August 31, 2019, 10:14:07 PM
Excuse me, but why would anyone bother making a Treaty, if one could always count upon everyone sitting at a particular table to honor their handshake forever?  Agreements are temporary. Treaties are binding. Obama knew that,
and did not care to attempt to convince others, just imposed what he wanted, and counted upon 'the sheep' to go along... some still 'go along', some not.

President Trump ran a Campaign on reversing policies that could be reversed or changed, and was elected on that basis. The only thing in his way has been obstinance and resistance of political enemies within, and judges doing the bidding of political enemies. Entrenchment of such enemies, inside our Govt. and in important positions is not just an accident, it is intentional, and works against our Freedom.

Is an interesting process to watch, and just foot dragging to keep status quo, which is only a head under the tent, toward where these enemies intend to take our Nation.


Foreign relations have nothing to do with your concepts of how things work.  Among nations it has always been a given that countries stand by their agreements.  Otherwise, why would anyone ever make an agreement with ANY Democratic Republic knowing the next adminstration might just disregard the agreement?

It goes towards precedent.  Once you become known as a country that does not stand by its agreements, that country has a reputation for not being trustworthy.

It is as simple as that.

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Reply #5816 on: August 31, 2019, 11:07:26 PM
Excuse me, but why would anyone bother making a Treaty, if one could always count upon everyone sitting at a particular table to honor their handshake forever?  Agreements are temporary. Treaties are binding. Obama knew that,
and did not care to attempt to convince others, just imposed what he wanted, and counted upon 'the sheep' to go along... some still 'go along', some not.

President Trump...


...President Trump pulls out of "binding treaties".

> Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

> Paris Agreement

> Trans-Pacific Partnership

> South Korean Trade Deal

> North American Free Trade Agreement

> UN Humans Rights Council

> UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization

> Is in the process of pulling out of the Iran Nuclear Deal.

He has also threatened to pull out of NATO and the WTO.




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Reply #5817 on: September 01, 2019, 12:58:23 AM
The first named, Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty has only been observed by the US, not by Russia, for some years. So, yes, the President decided we would no longer act as if bound, when we are the only one observing the "treaty".

I presume it was a Treaty, actually, and I do not recall Congress taking a vote about our disregard for it as a Treaty, so knowing how Dems would howl, and nevr Trump Republicans as well, should they feel Congress being slighted, seems odd somehow. Will do some further research on that.

The rest of the 'agreements', 'Pacts', and such are just that. Non-binding things where the U.S. Administration once agreed were in U.S. Interests, and now, the Administration deems them less in the U.S. Interests. Some never were in the United States actual interests, just no one bothered to do anything serious to stop the uneven playing field to which we were presumed 'bound' by others who were not bound either, such as Paris Accords.

There is a reason such things were not called 'Treaty', or 'binding', or needed agreement of Congress to step away from by President Trump. Not all were the sole fault of Democrats... lots of blame to go around... and negligence by Congress, not wishing to take difficult votes, or to raise hell when a 'Pact' was shoved down their throat, is no excuse for the US to be bound forever to anything against our best interests.

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Reply #5818 on: September 01, 2019, 02:19:14 AM
The first named, Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty has only been observed by the US, not by Russia, for some years.

1, Bullshit.  Also Europe, Japan, India, and fucking Pakistan, just to name a few. 

2, Russia, really?  His circle jerk buddy Putin has nothing to do with it, I'm sure.

3, PAKISTAN honors that treaty.   

So, yes, the President decided we would no longer act as if bound, when we are the only one observing the "treaty".



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Reply #5819 on: September 01, 2019, 02:38:01 AM
"Russia has failed to comply with its obligations under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, and as such, the United States has withdrawn from the INF Treaty effective today, Aug. 2, 2019. This withdrawal is a direct result of Russia's sustained and repeated violations of the treaty over many years and multiple presidential administrations."

- Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esperhttps://www.defense.gov/Explore/Spotlight/Intermediate-Range-Nuclear-Forces-Treaty/
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This agreement was made between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
Was signed by U.S., Soviet Union, and United Kingdom
The Soviet Union no longer exists.
Russia was presumed to honor this agreement in place of USSR.
Russia had not honored the agreement for many years.
Who cares what the UK does.
The United States has withdrawn from what was a ineffective treaty.

Pakistan was not a partner to this agreement, not asked to sign, did not sign, as well other Nations did not sigh and were not involved at all.

Just FYI...

Some people are like the 'slinky'. Not really good for much,
but they bring a smile to your face as they fall down stairs.