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Democracy Chronicles

Trump’s weak response to Russian bounties on U.S. Troops in Afghanistan

by Miriam Altieri - July 1, 2020

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Trump’s weak response to Russian bounties on U.S. Troops in Afghanistan puts soldiers at risk, erodes America’s hard power
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at the 2017 G-20 Hamburg Summit – Image source

Trump and the National Security Council (NSC) have known that Vladimir Putin has paid bounties for American soldiers to undermined the U.S. in the region. This has been known since March of 2020. The questions are: Why hasn’t Trump done anything? Why haven’t the NSC responded yet? What perfect response are they trying to achieve? Is it one that will not hurt the feelings of the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin?

It is claimed that some of these bounties may have been already collected. This means that American soldiers have already been killed for some of the money Russia paid and is still offering for American Soldiers. According to the Daily Beast:

“President Donald Trump has been briefed on the matter, as has the White House National Security Council, but neither has made a direct response. Islamist militants and their associates killed 20 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan in 2019, and intelligence officers believe that the insurgents did collect bounties from Russia, but it’s unclear how many of those deaths are considered paid for by Russia.”

American Soldiers are threatened 

This has been happening for a long time now but it was kept under wrapped in the White House. There were American Soldiers killed, but to this day nothing has been done. The other soldiers that are there have been left with a bounty on their heads and no response against Russia. Who in Afganistán collected money from Russia for American soldiers killed? It has been said that Taliban linked Militants have collected some of these bounties for dead American soldiers.

A weak response to Russian aggression

The United States does not do this to its own! A United States President has never done this before. This would be considered a betrayal to American Soldiers. However, Trump is two-faced, one minute he is all for the military and the next minute he wants to let Putin kill them. What does Putin have on the United States President? What could the Russian dictator have over Trump’s head? Trump behaves scared of Putin! Could this be the reason Trump was trying to bring the troops home from Afganistán? This is a very telling sign. On August 2, 2019, NBC News reported that “President Donald Trump has told his advisers that he wants to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by the November 2020 presidential election, according to five current and former administration and military officials.”

But it seems that Vladimir Putin has run out of patience and he wants Americans out of Afganistán dead or alive. Could Afganistán be the big secret Trump and Putin spoke about in July 2018 in Helsinki? It was noted after the Helsinki meeting that Donald Trump had a large amount of history of the Soviet Union that he wanted to share with America. It was surprising, to say the least.  What is interesting is that right after that meeting Trump decides to withdraw troops from Afganistán and Putin’s interest in Afganistán increased. Yet, since Trump got in power, Jan. 2017, it was noted how much respect and admiration Trump had for Russia’s President Putin.

Trump seems to love the guy!

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About Miriam Altieri

Miriam Altieri writes for Democracy Chronicles from her home in Tallahassee, Florida. She is a retired educator who volunteers advocating, obtaining resources or information for anyone dealing with organ transplant or hepatitis issues. Checkout the rest of our international team of authors as well. Together, they help cover free and fair elections on every continent with a focus on election reform in the United States.

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  1. Alba Nelia says

    July 1, 2020 at 10:25 pm

    They really need to impeach 45!!

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  2. David Anderson says

    July 11, 2020 at 4:26 pm

    Good article.
    It is nearly ever day a worse and worse Trump story comes out. Its Roger Stone today (possibly the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen in a US context), or this. There are so many outrages against the law, good governance and even decency that one can’t keep up at all.
    Is that the strategy? I don’t think so – they’re just that negligent, careless, heedless and corrupt.

    Thanks to writers like yourself we can keep better track of all this b/c (certainly in this case – the Russian bounty) it’d be forgotten.

    Just imagine the Russian-Taliban bounty scandal with any other president. Imagine Obama ignored that horror.
    well done,
    D.A.

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