not try and push Russia back into the G7? Condemn them, more sanctions etc
Seems trump and there fans are more angry about the leak or “fake news†than a threat against the soldiers who are heroes.
Australia and UK intel have said it was a credible threat, so it’s not even fake news.
The first response was it’s fake news, then second response was it’s not fake but the president wasn’t informed, the next response was it wasn’t given to the president because it wasn’t credible.
Which one is it?
New reports are saying he was given it in a report, did he just not read it?
For starters, our troops are in harm's way over there. It is part of the job. That the Russians might put a bounty on our troops, if credible reopens the idea that maybe the old Soviet and US animosities aren't completely gone. Which, imho means Communism isn't dead, just repackaged and rebranded--not such a bad idea if your country is on the ropes. Besides, declaring Communism dead is like the Devil convincing people he doesn't exist. A lot of dirty work can be done and any attribution passed off to lesser entities while the unified plan goes head.
That said, One source says not credible, another says it is, but there are some highly questionable bits from those sources which have been used to keep the US in somewhat of a turmoil for three years, and as an excuse to toss any rules, laws, and Constitutionality of investigations that frankly, were a quantum leap in spying on another political campaign. Nixon' Plumbers were amateur pikers compared to that lot. and the third response says the same as the first, that the information was not credible. Publish that in the NYT and my BS meter goes off.
Keeping Russia close means more opportunities to find out what is going on.
Push them out of the G7 and inpose more sanctions and they will play games with oil prices you may not have noticed, but which rocked the industry a few days before the COVID-19 bit even came into play. It is in our national interest to keep those prices above $40/bbl and reasonably stable. Trust me on that. It's a big part of rejuvenating our economy. It was the Russians and Saudis at OPEC+ who crashed the price that set up something unprecedented in the industry--oil prices going negative.
If there is truth to the matter, however, any intel will be harder to get now that the NYT has flapped their journalistic lips about the whole thing, which will make it much harder to drop a missile from a predator on a payoff somewhere. The Grey Lady never fails to deliver for her paying customers.