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755 US Diplomats Must Leave Russia
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In Memoriam   Location: Mukilteoish Joined: Sat Mar 26, 2011 Posts: 11589 
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Why do we even need over 1,000 "diplomats" in Russia??? What's that cost???
Doesn't seem like they are accomplishing anything. We have telephones and email now. https://www.yahoo.com/news/755-us-diplo ... 15699.html President Vladimir Putin said 755 US diplomats must leave Russia and warned ties with Washington could be gridlocked for a long time, in a move Sunday that followed tough new American sanctions. The Russian foreign ministry had earlier demanded Washington cut its diplomatic presence in Russia by September to 455 -- the same number Moscow has in the US. "More than a thousand people were working and are still working" at the US embassy and consulates, Putin said in an interview with Rossia-24 television. "755 people must stop their activities in Russia." Putin added that an upturn in Russia's relations with Washington could not be expected "any time soon". _________________ NRA Endowment Member. How did they know my member was well endowed? |
| Sun Jul 30, 2017 7:48 pm |
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Site Supporter  Location: Idaho, Land of the Free Joined: Wed May 1, 2013 Posts: 22314 Real Name: Vick Lagina
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meanwhile, they are making pals with PRNK. Who, BTW has just proven the capability to reach Denver and perhaps Chicago (no loss) with their ICBM's.
Bomber flights practicing runs on Pyongyang and things be gittin' lively. _________________ “I really don't care, Margaret." ~JD Vance |
| Sun Jul 30, 2017 8:00 pm |
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Site Supporter  Location: West Olympia Joined: Mon May 28, 2012 Posts: 6852 Real Name: Matt
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Great fucking question. Why are the American taxpayers paying for over 1000 people to live in Russia? You can try to justify it all you want but I promise you the world would still function fine if we cut that to say 50. Waste waste waste. Now what is that number worldwide? How do we push our politicians to stop spending our money on stupid shit like diplomats. Sure we need some, but that many is excessive. All these people should be fired and retrained into actual jobs that produce something.
_________________ "I'm Hub McCann. I've fought in two World Wars and countless smaller ones on three continents. I led thousands of men into battle with everything from horses and swords to artillery and TANKS! I've seen the headwaters of the Nile, and tribes of natives no white man had ever seen before. I've won and lost a dozen fortunes, KILLED MANY MEN! And loved only one woman, with a passion a FLEA like you could never begin to understand. That's who I am. NOW, GO HOME, BOY!" "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones". Albert Einstein 1947 |
| Sun Jul 30, 2017 8:45 pm |
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Site Supporter / FFL Dealer  Location: Lake Andes, S. Dakota Joined: Thu Aug 8, 2013 Posts: 1290 Real Name: Mark
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Guntrader wrote: Why do we even need over 1,000 "diplomats" in Russia??? What's that cost??? Doesn't seem like they are accomplishing anything. We have telephones and email now... When you see the word "diplomats", just replace it with "employees". I worked for FAA out of the U.S. Consulate in Frankfurt Germany for nearly 5 years, but I was not really a diplomat. I did carry two diplomatic passports, however. One for Israel and the other for Russia, Europe, and the M.E. I enjoyed all the privileges of a diplomat with none of the hassle, still, I was not attached to the State Dept. Incidentally, I ensured that Grandma had a safe flight to your house on Thanksgiving, through surveillance of aircraft maintenance activities on the other side of the pond. _________________ "To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." - Thomas Jefferson |
| Mon Jul 31, 2017 7:12 am |
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In Memoriam  Location: Tacoma Wa Joined: Tue Oct 8, 2013 Posts: 16607 Real Name: George Bailey
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But but but but...
MSM says Trump and Putin are Buddies.... WTF? _________________ "Remove one freedom per generation and soon you will have no freedom and no one would have noticed."......Carl Marx "Let us Cross the river and sit in the shade of the trees" .....Stonewall Jackson T. Jefferson "....the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is it's natural manure" |
| Mon Jul 31, 2017 4:29 pm |
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In Memoriam Location: Tacoma Wa Joined: Tue Oct 8, 2013 Posts: 16607 Real Name: George Bailey
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jukk0u wrote: meanwhile, they are making pals with PRNK. Who, BTW has just proven the capability to reach Denver and perhaps Chicago (no loss) with their ICBM's. Bomber flights practicing runs on Pyongyang and things be gittin' lively. First one that fat little fucker puts an arc on is gonna be armed...mark my words. _________________ "Remove one freedom per generation and soon you will have no freedom and no one would have noticed."......Carl Marx "Let us Cross the river and sit in the shade of the trees" .....Stonewall Jackson T. Jefferson "....the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is it's natural manure" |
| Mon Jul 31, 2017 4:30 pm |
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Site Supporter  Location: SnoCo Joined: Thu Mar 17, 2011 Posts: 2357
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Diplomats are just spies that don't hide in the bushes.
_________________ "The faster you shoot, the less shot you will get." |
| Mon Jul 31, 2017 4:33 pm |
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