McMaster a week ago: H.R. McMaster Gives The Kremlin a Double Bird Salute

[applegrove]

https://amp.thedailybeast.com/hr-mcmaster-gives-the-kremlin-a-double-bird-salute?__twitter_impression=true

By Spencer Ackerman at the Daily Beast

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Russia is also complicit in [Syrian dictator Bashar] Assad’s atrocities,” McMaster, President Trump’s national security adviser, said Thursday during an appearance at a discussion of the Syrian civil war held at the U.S. Holocaust memorial museum.

His voice raised, McMaster used harsher and more moralistic language than his boss does in characterizing Russia’s geopolitical influence, and unequivocally blamed the Kremlin for “the abhorrent nerve agent attack” on a former double agent, Sergei Skripal, and proposed “serious political and economic consequences” for Russian aggression.

“We believe that Russia was responsible for this attack, and we call on the Russian government to answer all questions related to this incident, and to provide full information to the OPCW [Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons]. No nation—Russia, China, or anybody else, any other nation—should be using chemical weapons and nerve agents,” McMaster said, following what critics have called a belated Wednesday statement casting blame on Moscow for the attack on Skripal.

McMaster’s brief remarks, lasting under 20 minutes, came as the Army three-star general is the subject of furious speculation that Trump will soon fire him and install hardliner ex-ambassador John Bolton atop the National Security Council. His capstone achievement thus far has been a Russia-and-China-centric security strategy that has been conspicuously out of step with Trump’s rhetoric and actions toward both countries.

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[dhol82]

1. Sad that we have lost someone with a shred of morality.

And now have a freaking crazy person in the same position

[BigmanPigman]

2. Rachael covered this on MSNBC tonight.

Tillerson was fired after he shamed Russia for poisoning the two people in England and McMaster for this. Gee, I wonder why the fucking moron praised Putin for his big election win. It was code for "Tillerson is gone and McMaster will be by the end of the week". A deal is a deal and he made a deal with the devil.

TREASON!