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In a day of tweets, Trump suggests major change on national security issues
 [WASHINGTONPOST] Before lunchtime Thursday, President-elect Donald Trump...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... said he would expand the U.S. nuclear arsenal, upending a reduction course set by presidents of both parties over the past four decades, and called for the United States to veto a pending U.N. resolution that criticized Israel’s settlements policy. The policy prescriptions, communicated in morning tweets, followed calls since last month’s election to reconsider the arms-length U.S. relationship with Taiwan and to let China keep an underwater U.S. vessel seized by its navy. Trump declared within hours of this week’s Berlin terrorist attack that it was part of a global Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... campaign to "slaughter Christians" and later said it reaffirmed the wisdom of his plans to bar Moslem im Late Thursday, Trump suggested in another tweet that the U.S. military’s years-in-the-making plans for a new stealth fighter, Lockheed Martin’s F-35, might be reconsidered, saying he had "asked Boeing to price-out a comparable F-18 Super Hornet!" With weeks to go before he becomes president, Trump has not hesitated to voice his opinions on national security issues of the day and to publicly advise the current president on what to do about them. ‘Nothing unusual’ in Trump’s nuclear comments, Putin says [IsraelTimes] Speaking during a marathon end-of-year news conference that was televised live, Putin said he sees "nothing unusual" in Trump’s pledge to strengthen the US nuclear forces, calling the statement in line with the president-elect’s campaign promises. Posted by: Fred 2016-12-24 |
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