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Panetta: Putin Wants To Restore the Soviet Union

The former secretary of defense has made similar remarks before, but this time he was more direct.

By Curt Mills | Staff Writer Dec. 1, 2016, at 11:21 a.m.

http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2016-12-01/vladimir-putin-wants-to-restore-the-soviet-union-former-secretary-of-defense-says

.. nothing new just to have Panetta's statement on the board .. see re NATO here

...Trump has much grander aspirations. Duterte is in charge of a poor country with scarcely any military power. Although Duterte can damage the efforts of China’s neighbors to contain Beijing’s expansionism, most of the harm he is inflicting is on his own citizens. If Trump were to win the presidency, by contrast, he would be in charge of the most powerful nation in the world, with thousands of nuclear weapons at his command. He needs to be taken seriously when he threatens, inter alia, to rip up free-trade agreements, impose costly tariffs, build a wall on the Mexico border, deport 11 million undocumented immigrants, abandon NATO, pull U.S. troops out of countries such as South Korea and Japan, recognize Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, and generally turn his back on decades of American international leadership. The example of rowdy “Rody” Duterte — along with countless others, from Juan Perón to Benito Mussolini —suggests that demagogues have a disturbing tendency to act in office much as they said they would do on the campaign trail, no matter how unhinged their ideas may appear to rational observers.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=125673854&txt2find=liberal .. linked here .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=126358193

i reckon all 8 of Trumpie's go-get'em election promises there will mostly go out the window now ..