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Lucylastic -> RE: Russia vows response to diplomat expulsion from US (12/30/2016 5:26:26 AM)
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you mean how huma and hils had a discussion about creme brulee is more problematic that a new arms race with the world?
PS newest out
Vladimir Putin Won’t Expel U.S. Diplomats as Russian Foreign Minister Urged
MOSCOW — In a head-spinning turn of events on Friday, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia announced that he would not retaliate against the United States’ expulsion of Russian diplomats and new sanctions — hours after his foreign minister recommended doing just that.
Mr. Putin, apparently betting on improved relations with the next American president, said he would not eject 35 diplomats or close any diplomatic facilities, a proposed tit-for-tat response to actions taken by the Obama administration a day earlier.
In an announcement on the Kremlin’s website, Mr. Putin said he did not want to deprive children of access to a recreational area on an island in the Moscow River that his foreign minister had recommended closing. He went one step further, inviting all children of American diplomats accredited in Russia to celebrate the New Year and the Russian Orthodox Christmas with him at the Kremlin. (Their parents are presumably welcome; no date was announced.)
The switch was remarkable, given that the foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, had just made the recommendation in remarks broadcast live nationwide, and given the long history of tit-for-tat expulsions between the two countries. Both the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation have traditionally been sticklers for diplomatic protocol.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/world/europe/russia-diplomats-us-hacking.html?emc=edit_na_20161230&nlid=69606674&ref=cta
And the donald dosent want to talk about the ramifications, he just wants to move on,
LMAO so he will actually deign to take a security briefing next week
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-hack.html?rref=collection%2Fnewseventcollection%2FRussian%20Hacking%20in%20the%20U.S.%20Election&action=click&contentCollection=Europe&module=Collection®ion=Marginalia&src=me&version=newsevent&pgtype=article
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President-elect Donald J. Trump edged away on Thursday from his dismissive stance on American assessments of Russian hacking, saying he would meet with intelligence officials next week “to be updated on the facts” after the Obama administration announced sanctions against Moscow.
In a brief written statement, Mr. Trump’s first response to President Obama’s sweeping action against Russia, the president-elect reiterated his call for “our country to move on to bigger and better things.” But he said that, “in the interest of our country and its great people,” he would get the briefing “nevertheless.”
The statement to some extent echoed his remarks late Wednesday, when he was asked at his Mar-a-Lago estate about Mr. Obama’s plan to take action against Russia. In otherwise opaque comments, Mr. Trump appeared to concede the need to make computers more secure.
“I think we ought to get on with our lives,” he said. “I think that computers have complicated lives very greatly. The whole age of computer has made it where nobody knows exactly what is going on. We have speed, we have a lot of other things, but I’m not sure we have the kind, the security we need.”
Mr. Trump took questions Wednesday from a handful of reporters as Don King, the sports promoter and a longtime friend, stood next to him. He has not held a formal news conference since July, though he promised on Wednesday to hold one in early January.
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