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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/07/putin-trump-arms-control-russia-724718Vladimir Putin presented President Donald Trump with a series of requests during their private meeting in Helsinki last month, including new talks on controlling nuclear arms and prohibiting weapons in space, according to a Russian document obtained by POLITICO.
A page of proposed topics for negotiation, not previously made public, offers new insights into the substance of the July 16 dialogue that even Trump's top advisers have said they were not privy to at the time. Putin shared the contents of the document with Trump during their two-hour conversation, according to a U.S. government adviser who provided an English-language translation.
POLITICO also reviewed a Russian-language version of the document, which bore the header in Cyrillic Dialogue on the Issue of Arms Control." The person who provided the document to POLITICO obtained it from Russian officials who described it as what Putin had conveyed to Trump in Helsinki.
The White House declined to comment on the document Tuesday, aside from denying that Trump had received any actual paperwork.
BigmanPigman
(51,622 posts)about the W House from the Kremlin now? I guess Putin believes in free speech more than we thought.
sandensea
(21,650 posts)Trump's like those problem children, that only one person in the whole world seem to know how to talk to (and of course bribe, as the need arises).
Here's Putin's chance to talk him into cutting our gargantuan defense budget, and just maybe, spend on infrastructure and our massive social needs.
Too much to ask?
malaise
(269,144 posts)SunSeeker
(51,630 posts)If they had actually talked about nuclear arms reduction, Shitler would have invited in national security/arms advisors, as would have Putin.
FFS, Putin leaked this. You gotta ask why. And the answer is obvious: to cover for his orange buddy. He needed to give Shitler some kind of explanation for their mano a mano translators-only meetings, since Shitler was just flailing and only confessing to more crimes each day.
think4yourself
(838 posts)Were this true it would have been leaked weeks ago.
Pathetic.