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Retweeting Drudge.
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That's because he is calm and doesn't want to make mistakes. He does not rush to judgments or make quick decisions. In a position as critical as the president, I'm happy we have such a level headed commander in chief.
If you're asking "how can things get worse" you're basically admitting you've never read a history book.
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@TheHill: #BREAKING: Senate GOP fails to pass repeal of Obama drilling rule https://t.co/kjlrd05pQf https://t.co/wK6sR6LAtQ
@ABC: NEW: AG Sessions, Deputy AG Rosenstein interviewing candidates for FBI interim director; we can expect someone to be chosen in 24-48 hours.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Wednesday that a Russian missile deployment near the Baltic states was "destabilizing", and officials suggested the United States could deploy a Patriot missile battery in the region for NATO exercises in the summer.
U.S. allies are jittery ahead of war games by Russia and Belarus in September that could involve up to 100,000 troops and include nuclear weapons training -- the biggest such exercise since 2013.
The drills could see Russian troops near the borders of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
Russia has also deployed Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad, its enclave on the Baltic Sea. It said the deployment was part of routine drills, but U.S. officials worry that it may represent a permanent upgrade.
Asked during a trip to Lithuania about the deployment, Mattis told a news conference: "Any kind of build-up like that is simply destabilizing."
The United States is ruling out any direct response to the Russian drills or the Iskander deployment.
But at the same time, U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, raised the possibility that a Patriot missile battery could be deployed briefly to the Baltic region during NATO exercises in July that focus on air defense, known as Tobruk Legacy.
The officials stressed that the Patriots, if deployed, would be withdrawn when the exercises were over. That would most likely happen before the Russian drills began, they said.
Mattis declined to comment directly on the possible Patriot deployment to reporters after talks in Vilnius.
"The specific systems that we bring are those that we determine necessary," Mattis said, saying that NATO capabilities in the region were purely defensive.
BALTIC FEARS
It was Mattis's first trip to the Baltic states, which fear Russia could attack them in the same way that it annexed Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in 2014. The states are concerned about their lack of air defenses and considering upgrading their military hardware.
Asked about Baltic air defenses on a visit to the Pabrade training ground, Mattis told reporters:
"We will talk to the leaders of each of the nations, and we will work this out in Brussels and we will work together if necessary.
"The reason for the deployment you see right now is the lack of respect for international law by a nation in the region, and so long as the nation shows respect, we would not have to deploy that," Mattis told reporters, standing in front of a German Leopard tank.
A German-led battalion was deployed to Lithuania this year as part of a NATO effort to deter any Russian aggression.
Asked about any future Patriot deployment, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite, standing next to Mattis, said: "We need all necessary means for defense and for deterrence, and that's what we'll decide together."
The scale of this year's Russian "Zapad" ("West") maneuvers, which date from Soviet times, when they were first used to test new weapon systems, is one of NATO's most pressing concerns. Western diplomats say the exercises pose an unusual threat.
But Mattis told reporters: "It's a routine exercise. I trust it will stay routine."
Estonian Defence Minister Margus Tsahkna told Reuters last month that NATO governments had intelligence suggesting Moscow may leave Russian soldiers in Belarus once the Zapad 2017 exercises are over, also pointing to public data of Russian railway traffic to Belarus.
Moscow denies any plans to threaten NATO and says it is the U.S.-led alliance that is undermining stability in eastern Europe. It has not said how many troops will take part in Zapad 2017.
@TheHill: Grassley to Dems calling Comey firing "Nixonian": "Suck it up and move on" https://t.co/Fj72WdSOVO https://t.co/O6G1hk9Qks
@thehill: JUST IN: Senate Dems threaten to block committee hearings over Comey firing http://hill.cm/TgJX0Ds
@thehill: JUST IN: Senate Dems threaten to block committee hearings over Comey firing http://hill.cm/TgJX0Ds
Gonna need the Dems to play
moving forward
Burr and Warner urged Comey to speed up Russia inquiry; Comey asked Rosenstein for more resources. Next day, Comey fired, per @SaraMurray
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 10, 2017
Could be bots. Was listening to a radio interview yesterday or Monday with a computer scientist talking about how easy it is to set up a Twitter bot to do basic things, like retweet or like tweets based on who said it. Set up a thousand bots and you can sway more real people to follow like sheep.The scary thing is the amount of likes Trump is getting on his tweets still.
Trump could probably declare himself Satan and the hell has taken off and it won't move a needle among his loyal voters
The scary thing is the amount of likes Trump is getting on his tweets still.
Trump could probably declare himself Satan and the hell has taken off and it won't move a needle among his loyal voters