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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFormer Defense Sec Ash Carter: Trump / Putin summit "like watching the destruction of a cathedral"
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JUST IN: Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter, not known to utter anything unambiguous: I never saw or imagined so uneven a handover of American security interests and principles with nothing in return...It was like watching the destruction of a cathedral.
5:48 PM - 16 Jul 2018
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JUST IN: Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter, not known to utter anything unambiguous: I never saw or imagined so uneven a handover of American security interests and principles with nothing in return...It was like watching the destruction of a cathedral.
5:48 PM - 16 Jul 2018
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Former Defense Sec Ash Carter: Trump / Putin summit "like watching the destruction of a cathedral" (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Jul 2018
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smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)1. K&R
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)2. K&R
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)3. There was nothing worth getting in return for what Trump did.
regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)5. There is, FOR TRUMP...
...a guarantee of Russian assistance this November and in 2020. With advantages in hacking, and a compliant federal government lowering the defenses, who's to say they dont now have the capability to hack directly into the infrastructure and simply change the vote totals to their liking?
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)6. For him, yes. That is true.
But they wouldn't announce that.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)4. I thought it was like watching one of those donkey sex shows myself.
Who would ever have imagined that something like this would happen and that the POTUS would star in it? On TV?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)7. Well, donkeys getting fucked over is an apt analogy. n/t