Vladimir Putin accuses Ukraine of stoking violence to win support from Donald Trump

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9. Even over here in the US

it's so easy to imagine how they must feel, that I feel their fear, viscerally, myself. And I shiver thinking about the even greater vulnerability of the Baltic countries.

My fear is further magnified by the corruption and utter incompetence of our new administration. As a former assistant secretary of state in the Obama administration put it, sarcastically:

Asked whether federal workers are dissenting in ways that go beyond previous party changes in the White House, Tom Malinow­ski, who was President Barack Obama’s assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, said, sarcastically: “Is it unusual? . . . There’s nothing unusual about the entire national security bureaucracy of the United States feeling like their commander in chief is a threat to U.S. national security. That happens all the time. It’s totally usual. Nothing to worry about.”

(source of quote: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/resistance-from-within-federal-workers-push-back-against-trump/2017/01/31/c65b110e-e7cb-11e6-b82f-687d6e6a3e7c_story.html?)

So scary not to be able to trust my own government to protect our national security.