Soon-to-exit McMaster blasts Russia

[Julian Englis]

Source: Politico

Outgoing national security adviser H.R. McMaster on Tuesday said the U.S., along with other nations, “have failed to impose sufficient costs" on Russia — but also argued that there will be “triumph over new threats“ from the Kremlin.

"For too long, some nations have looked the other way in the face of these threats. Russia brazenly, and implausibly denies its actions, and we have failed to impose sufficient costs,” McMaster said during a speech at the Atlantic Council’s “100 Years of U.S.-Baltic Partnership“ event in Washington.

The three-star Army general added that Russian President Vladimir Putin believes he is “winning” through the county’s “hybrid warfare,“ which “combines political, economic, informational, and cyber assaults against sovereign nations.“ But, he argued, the U.S. and its allies will prevail.

“We will triumph over new threats, including those posed by Russia’s increased aggression around the world,” he said.

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[SunSeeker]

1. Too little, too late, McMaster. nt

[tableturner]

5. What do you expect him to have done?

He ended up pushing back hard enough that Trump fired him. Trump is president, not him. I'm appreciative that in the end, he did not back down. Given that we have such trash as president, who is served by other trash, I'll take what I can from McMaster and others who are at least moderately sane and reasonable. There is nothing more he could have done. Small victories are better than none.

[SunSeeker]

7. He could have spoken up sooner.

For fuck's sake, he worked for Shitler for a year. All the while, he knew Trump was doing nothing to stop Russia from it's cyberwar on our democracy, paticularly with regard to the 2018 elections. Where was his patriotism?

[LiberalLovinLug]

11. Exactly

So sick of these after-the-fact right wingers, whether in government or in RW media complain about the company they had kept for a long time, cashing cheques, and staying silent. And only speak up when they have no power or influence to change anything and their warnings will be swept up and dumped and lost before the next news cycle.

[SunSeeker]

13. Yep. Now his criticisms can be waived off as disgruntled former employee whining.

He should have said something when the Muslim ban endangered the informants helping us across the globe, or when Trump repeatedly maligned our intelligence agencies while defending Putin, or when Kushner orchestrated an unprecedented bashing of Qatar after they wouldn't give him a loan, even though they host a strategic American base with over 10,000 of our troops. The list goes on and on. And yet he kept quiet through it all. He was complicit during some of the most traitorous actions by an American administration in our country's history.

[Skittles]

2. has anyone told him he is irrelevant?

[lunasun]

3. Wake me up when he is gone

Useless trump prop de jour

[tirebiter]

4. He's more relevant now than he was a week ago

He can speak freely now.

[notdarkyet]

6. He couldnt before? Why would that be? Did he kiss dts ring? Drink the koolaid? What took

Away his ability to speak? Something. A lot of flies seem to get spun in trumps tangled web.

[herding cats]

8. He'd have been fired and had zero influence in any policy.

I'm not defending him, but that simple fact is obvious.

As to what he did while he was there, I'm as in the dark as anyone else. History will no doubt tell us one day. Be it for good or evil, it tends to come out eventually.

[denvine]

9. He needs to speak up now and tell the truth about what is going on in the Trump administration.

Then he would be a true Patriot!

[Achilleaze]

10. Comrade Casino*: "Ewww. He's being mean to my friends. Whine."

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[red dog 1]

12. K&R

Here's the link:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/04/soon-to-exit-mcmaster-blasts-russia-499904

[SummerSnow]

14. He wrote that book,'Dereliction of Duty' about VietNam

Now he might have to write a part 2


"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C."
—H. R. McMaster

[SunSeeker]

15. He basically did what he criticized in that book. nt