Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "Trump's press secretary claims he wasn't briefed on Russia bounty intel" video.
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Lets face it, when Trump has to choose between America and Russia, America doesn't stand a chance. His track record has proven that he will choose Russia everytime.
So Putin invades the sovereign country of Ukraine, engages in nerve agent attacks in England, shoots down a commercial airliner over Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers, including 80 children, he interferes in our presidential elections, and now we've learned that he has placed a bounty on the heads of our troops in Afghanistan. And after all of that, Trump wants to reward Putin's tyrannical behavior by lifting sanctions on Russia, and bringing it back into the G-7.
Let that marinate in your mind for a moment. Take your time....
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The Geek Is Strong
The Passenger plane tragedy is not disputed. An extensive investigation was conducted, and Russia was responsible for it.
Russian trolls from Putin's IRA (Internet Research Agency) went into action on July 17 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 had just been shot down over eastern Ukraine, and the same IRA (Internet Research Agency) operation that Putin would use to influence the U.S. presidential election two years later, went into overdrive, pumping out lies and conspiracy theories to exculpate Moscow’s murderous clients.
The Boeing 777 passenger jet was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 passengers, including 80 children, when it was blown out of the air above territory held by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. Exhaustive research by two Dutch journalists, Robert van der Noordaa and Coen van de Ven, published in the Dutch weekly De Groene Amsterdammer, shows precisely the way Russian trolls worked to shift blame for the massacre and create a dense fog of conspiracy theories to obscure the facts.
Van der Noordaa and van de Ven analyzed 9 million Russian IRA tweets covering the period 2014-2017 that were released by Twitter in October 2018 as part of an effort to elucidate the Russian role in the U.S. presidential election.
They report that in the 24 hours after the MH17 crash, Putin's IRA posted at least 65,000 tweets, mainly in Russian, that blamed the Ukrainian government in Kiev for the disaster. Altogether, 111,486 tweets about MH17 were posted by the IRA in just three days, from July 17 through 19. (By comparison, in the 10-week period leading up to the November 2016 US elections, the IRA accounts posted 175,993 tweets.) According to the two journalists: “Never before or after did the trolls tweet so much in such a short period of time.”
What is remarkable about the three-day tweetstorm is that the trolls actually wrote their own tweets instead of limiting themselves to retweeting or copying other extremist tweets, as was the case with other international incidents. They also composed their own stories on the LiveJournal platform, a popular Russian blog website, and then shared them on Twitter.
Russian-concocted theories like the one about Ukrainian fighter jets have stubbornly persisted in the Netherlands to this day, embraced by activist citizen journalists and even ordinary citizens, despite the irrefutable findings of the Dutch-led Joint Investigative Team (JIT) that the plane was shot down by a Russian BUK missile.
The JIT used intercepted recordings of telephone conversations by pro-Russian Ukrainian separatists, who discussed the delivery of the missile, videos and photographs on social networks, research of the Bellingcat investigators, eyewitness accounts, forensic examinations of the plane’s debris, and simulation modeling of the explosion of the plane to establish beyond doubt that Flight MH17 was shot down from Ukrainian rebel territory by a Russian 9M38 BUK missile launched from a BUK-TELAR self-propelled system, brought from the Russian 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade in Kursk.
In fact, the impending transfer of the Russian BUK missile was already made known by the newly appointed Russian prosecutor in Crimea, Natalia Poklonskaya, who tweeted on June 29 that “the rebels now have a ‘fine cookie’ against the Ukrainian air force.” Her tweet was removed shortly after Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was shot down.
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