Let me put that in my WHO GIVES A SHIT WHAT THE KREMLIN SAYS file.
By early afternoon, some lawmakers began to retract their original indignant comments.
Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the foreign affairs committee at the State Duma, two hours after he described Flynn’s departure as a “negative signal” for Russia-U.S. relations, switched to more moderate language, stressing that it “cannot fundamentally influence Russia-U.S. ties.”
Sounds like the back-channels are alive and well post Flynn’s departure.
Can you imagine the non stream bitching and moaning Rs would have done if Obama did one iota of this shit with Russia? And now not a fucking peep. I wonder if it’s cause they are too stunned or too embarrassed. I’m guessing stunned because they never seemed to be embarrassed when a fellow R shows their ass.
Translation: So we lost one if our guys in the White House, but we have plenty more left in our fold.
Well this explains it all…holy shit when you music career goes down after not really being that good, your mind really follows…
The Kremlin on Tuesday played down the resignation of U.S. National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, a sign that Russia…
…has alternative pipelines into the top tier of the White House.
The nomination of Tillerson, former chief executive at ExxonMobil, showed to the Russians that it would be him, not Flynn, who would be doing the negotiating, Makarkin said.
That would be the Tillerson, of Exxon, who would love to work out something that will give US oil companies a piece of the Russian oil and gas pie.