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    Rick Petree‏ @RickPetree Jan 3

    @maddow tonight featured one of her most important stories, ever. Captioned "Puppet Puppet," you MUST watch it (B bloc) if you didn't see it live. I consider myself a pretty close student of U.S. foreign policy, but knew NOTHING about the material she presented.

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      2. Rick Petree‏ @RickPetree Jan 3

        It left me shaken. She laid out 3 instances in which Trump himself, or Trump officials, have articulated foreign policy concerns that are (a) completely off the wall in terms of any political opinion in this country (in Rachel's terms, they "don't exist in nature" in the U.S.),

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      3. Rick Petree‏ @RickPetree Jan 3

        and (b) traceable directly to (and *only* to) Russian military intelligence. The first instance, in the first weeks after inauguration, was an administration request for intel agencies to report on Polish military incursions into Belarus.

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      4. Rick Petree‏ @RickPetree Jan 3

        There never were such incursions, or preparations for such incursions, but the Kremlin was just then beaming exactly such disinformation at Belarus (to frighten them into closer ties w/ Russia). The ONLY people in the world then pushing that line were the Russian GRU.

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      5. Rick Petree‏ @RickPetree Jan 3

        The second instance linked Trump's very odd on air comment abt Montenegro joining NATO (weirdly commenting on how warlike the 'very strong' Montenegrans are), and his shoving aside of the Montenegran PM at Trump's first NATO summit, with Russia's attempted coup (including the

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      6. Rick Petree‏ @RickPetree Jan 3

        planned assassination of the PM) in Montenegro. The coup was foiled only months after Trump made his comments. The 3rd case linked Trump's comments y'day abt. Russia having been right to invade Afghanistan (b/c "terrorists were coming into Russia" from Afghanistan)

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      7. Rick Petree‏ @RickPetree Jan 3

        w/ the planned intro *next month* of a bill in the Russian Duma aimed at 'rehabilitating' the legacy of Russia's Afghan misadventure. The bill makes the identical claim abt Russia having been provoked by Afghan terrorists. Until now, no one in Russia has even attempted to make

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      8. Rick Petree‏ @RickPetree Jan 3

        this baseless claim. Rachel's point: these are obscure foreign policy issues about which it is, in the first place, beyond strange that this ignorant POTUS would ever have heard of them, let alone develop opinions about them.

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      9. Rick Petree‏ @RickPetree Jan 3

        And, second, the only possible source for Trump's awareness of these issues, and ability to articulate the particular positions he's taken (which NO ONE in the U.S. has EVER voiced), is the Kremlin itself. As Rachel asked: who is piping these views into Trump's ear ?

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      10. Rick Petree‏ @RickPetree Jan 3

        Bottom line: persuasive additional evidence that Trump is, literally, an active Russian agent or asset, in close communication (either by phone w/ Putin or otherwise) with Russian 'handlers.'

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      11. Rick Petree‏ @RickPetree Jan 3

        These cases come on top of the change in the RNC's platform plank on Ukraine, the efforts to lift sanctions on Russia, the very strange volte face on Syria and many other matters which are most readily explained by accepting that Putin 'owns' Trump.

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      2. NW‏ @otocincluscat Jan 4
        Replying to @RickPetree @ManInTheHoody @maddow

        yes rick. some have been on to it. you need to start listening to people like @sarahkendzior and @AndreaChalupa

        1 reply . 1 retweet 15 likes
      3. Rick Petree‏ @RickPetree 19h19 hours ago
        Replying to @otocincluscat @ManInTheHoody and

        I'm a fan of both, and it's beyond dispute that they've warned, directionally, abt many of the same things @Maddow featured last night. A particular focus of theirs has been Putin's interference in Ukraine, and the risk of war over Ukraine.+

        2 replies . 2 retweets 13 likes
      4. Rick Petree‏ @RickPetree 19h19 hours ago
        Replying to @RickPetree @otocincluscat and

        But, having checked their feeds cursorily (including by Google search), I don't think they've been "on to" ANY of the specific stories @Maddow did last night: not the GRU deza on Poland invading Balarus; not Trump's apparent sympathy with GRU's failed coup in Montenegro; and +

        1 reply . 0 retweets 10 likes
      5. Rick Petree‏ @RickPetree 19h19 hours ago
        Replying to @RickPetree @otocincluscat and

        not Trump's apparent advance knowledge of, and sympathy with, a still emerging Russian attempt to revise ('rehabilitate') the justification for its invasion of Afghanistan. Gaslit Nation has, in many ways, worked a broader canvas to which these stories are relevant, but+

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      6. Rick Petree‏ @RickPetree 19h19 hours ago
        Replying to @RickPetree @otocincluscat and

        I don't think it's fair to suggest that ppl (like me) who found much new in the Maddow report last night were simply catching up to stuff that Kendzior and Chalupa had put out long ago.

        1 reply . 0 retweets 14 likes
      7. Sarah Kendzior‏Verified account @sarahkendzior 19h19 hours ago
        Replying to @RickPetree @otocincluscat and

        I agree with your points. I haven't watched the Maddow episodes in question, but Trump/Russia is an enormous story and it's good that there are analysts covering it from multiple angles. Andrea and I were indeed early to it but it's necessary and beneficial for many to cover it.

        2 replies . 12 retweets 47 likes
      8. Rick Petree‏ @RickPetree 19h19 hours ago
        Replying to @sarahkendzior @otocincluscat and

        And, again, we’re in your debt for the great work you’re doing. Many thanks.

        1 reply . 1 retweet 32 likes
      9. JB‏ @JBPNW9 19h19 hours ago
        Replying to @RickPetree @sarahkendzior and

        Agreed! Thank you Sarah... you've been sounding the alarm for 2 years+

        0 replies . 0 retweets 5 likes
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      2. Michael Rowand‏ @mrowand Jan 3
        Replying to @RickPetree @maddow

        I had forgotten about the “polish incursions” propaganda, but the Montenegro thing had bothered me since he did it. It’s obviously not an issue about which he would care on his own. Either it’s Russian trolls, as Clint Watts has suggested, or he’s being directly handled.

        2 replies . 29 retweets 157 likes
      3. Michael Rowand‏ @mrowand Jan 3
        Replying to @mrowand @RickPetree @maddow

        It’s a great segment, no matter what (and it goes into C block). Everyone should watch.https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-curiously-well-versed-in-specific-russian-talking-points-1419581507654 …

        3 replies . 61 retweets 141 likes
      4. Michael Rowand‏ @mrowand Jan 3
        Replying to @mrowand @RickPetree @maddow

        This is the C block @ProfessorShawhttps://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-parrots-russian-revisionism-on-soviet-afghanistan-invasion-1419575875862 …

        3 replies . 28 retweets 79 likes
      5. Michael Rowand‏ @mrowand Jan 3
        Replying to @mrowand @RickPetree and

        In any case, either this is the biggest scandal in American history by miles (and the greatest treachery since the Civil War), or we’ve all gone collectively crazy.

        3 replies . 28 retweets 152 likes
      6. Rick Petree‏ @RickPetree Jan 3
        Replying to @mrowand @maddow @ProfessorShaw

        We’re not crazy.

        4 replies . 5 retweets 135 likes
      7. Michael Rowand‏ @mrowand Jan 3
        Replying to @RickPetree @maddow @ProfessorShaw

        I think you’re right. We were out there protesting tonight. We’ve been there for 172 nights. #KremlinAnnexpic.twitter.com/jdrI4qbKgd

        6 replies . 56 retweets 285 likes
      8. Rick Petree‏ @RickPetree Jan 3
        Replying to @mrowand @maddow @ProfessorShaw

        Huge respect !

        2 replies . 4 retweets 75 likes
      9. Michael Rowand‏ @mrowand Jan 3
        Replying to @RickPetree @maddow @ProfessorShaw

        Maybe you could tweet the link to our donations page? We’re running very thin on cash, entirely run by local people and performers, and we would like to keep this going. We need help.https://secure.actblue.com/donate/occupylafayettepark# …

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