{"id":19028,"date":"2017-01-06T03:04:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T03:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19028"},"modified":"2017-01-06T03:04:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T03:04:40","slug":"no-1-geopolitical-threat-cheers-trump-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19028","title":{"rendered":"‘No. 1 geopolitical threat’ cheers Trump victory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Let’s see how this has gone.<\/p>\n

Four years ago, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Russia had emerged as the nation’s “No. 1 geopolitical threat.” Liberals scoffed at Mitt; I was one of them. What do you mean, Gov. Romney? Those Russians don’t pose any serious threat to the world’s most exceptional nation.<\/p>\n

Then in 2016, Russians are now known to be cheering the election of the latest GOP nominee, Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n

CIA intercepts have captured information revealing that our former top geopolitical foe was acting mighty happy at the prospect of Trump would become president of the United States.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/us-intercepts-capture-senior-russian-officials-celebrating-trump-win\/ar-BBxWUUL?li=BBnb7Kz<\/a><\/p>\n

Senior Russian officials were simply thrilled that Americans had elected someone friendly to their world view.<\/p>\n

What gives here? Are they are our friends or foes?<\/p>\n

Oh, wait! The president-elect has dismissed allegations that the Russians hacked our election system; Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (pictured) has “no doubt” the Russians did as they have accused of doing.\u00a0Trump has nominated ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be secretary of state; Tillerson has a close personal and professional relationship with Russian President (and former KGB boss) Vladimir Putin, who once awarded Tillerson the\u00a0Medal of Friendship.<\/p>\n

This is just me, but I wouldn’t trust this so-called “friend” as far as I can throw him.<\/p>\n\n

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Let’s see how this has gone. Four years ago, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Russia had emerged as the nation’s “No. 1 geopolitical threat.” Liberals scoffed at Mitt; I was one of them. What do you mean, Gov. Romney? Those Russians don’t pose any serious threat to the world’s most exceptional nation. Then in … Continue reading ‘No. 1 geopolitical threat’ cheers Trump victory<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6832,1424,6834,6734,6736,5125],"class_list":["post-19028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-dni","tag-donald-trump","tag-james-clapper","tag-rex-tillerson","tag-russian-hackers","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19030,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19028\/revisions\/19030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}