OMG trump for reals was stroking those putin balls..
Numerous
reports detail how the Trump administration – and the president himself – were aware as early as 2019 that Russia had been offering bounties to Taliban fighters in Afghanistan to kill US soldiers. The United States reportedly has
evidence of money transfers from a bank account controlled by Russian military intelligence to a Taliban-linked account and has identified a possible
middleman who helped distribute the cash to the Taliban. These bounties have been
linked to the deaths of American soldiers.
Despite the fact that this information was known to the Trump administration for at least months, there is no indication that the president has done
anything to punish Russia. The White House has not even attempted to convince the public otherwise. To the contrary, Trump has continued his obsequious behavior towards Vladimir Putin.
Since the intelligence on bounties was
reportedly provided to Trump in February 2020, Trump has spoken with Putin numerous times, praised Putin publicly, invited Russia to rejoin the G7 group of democracies, and
announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from Germany without consulting US allies – a giant gift to the Russian president.