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Title: George W. Bush touts 'dangers of isolation' as Trump pulls out of Iran deal
Source: MSN News
URL Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl ... eal/ar-AAx5SSo?ocid=spartandhp
Published: May 10, 2018
Author: By Javier De Diego and Alessia Grunberge
Post Date: 2018-05-11 01:11:32 by X-15
Keywords: Bush, Trump
Views: 1195
Comments: 17

Former President George W. Bush returned to Washington on Thursday night and touted a foreign policy view that directly contradicts President Donald Trump's "America First" rhetoric.
Bush's comments came after Trump's decision this week to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, as well as his recent comment that US troops would be leaving Syria "relatively soon" and his continued efforts to build a wall on the southern border to keep immigrants from crossing illegally.
Bush spoke at an awards ceremony hosted by the Atlantic Council, a nonpartisan foreign policy think tank, which was honoring him with a Distinguished International Leadership Award for his work to eradicate HIV/AIDS in Africa. The Presidential Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which he started while in office and has continued to lead since leaving the White House, is credited with saving millions of lives across the African continent and helping to change the trajectory of the HIV/AIDS crisis around the world.
In explaining the importance of PEPFAR, Bush spoke about what he called "the dangers of isolation."
"America is indispensable for the world. The price of greatness is responsibility. One cannot rise to be in many ways the leading community in the civilized world without being involved in its problems, without being convulsed by its agonies and inspired by its causes," Bush said, invoking a speech by the legendary British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
"If we are together, nothing is impossible. If we are divided, all will fail," he added, again quoting Churchill.
The former President, who recently lost his mother, former first lady Barbara Bush, thanked the public for its support and prayers. He said, "All is well with her soul. And all is well with ours."
Bush added that his father, former President George H.W. Bush, "misses mom" but his health is good. The 41st president had spent more than a week in the hospital with a blood-related infection after his wife's death.
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Bush spoke at an awards ceremony hosted by the Atlantic Council, a nonpartisan foreign policy think tank,

The Atlantic Council is NATO's "think tank".
Vanity: Russian Conspiracy Theory, CrowdStrike, and the Atlantic Counsel - freerepublic.com, 4/5/2017 | Excerpts:

The key to all of this is the Atlantic Council. The vehemently anti-russian think tank that Dr. Farkas is a senior fellow.
Most people think that the FBI analyzed the DNC servers and came to the conclusion based on their analysis that Russia hacked the DNC. That is not true. The DNC refused to let the FBI look at their servers. Instead the DNC hired a private company, Crowdstrike, to do an analysis of their servers. It was Crowdstrike that concluded that Russia hacked the DNC. They then turned over those findings to the FBI.
If this sounds incredibly shady its because it is. While private companies do such analysis its very odd that in a case where national security is involved that FBI/CIA analysts were not allowed to do their own analysis of the evidence.
So what do we know about Crowdstrike? Well Crowdstrike was founded by Dmitri Alperovitch, a Ukrainian National, who just like Dr. Farkas is a fellow at, you guessed it, Atlantic Council. Crow[d]strike also received major funding for the pro-Obama/Hillary folks at Google.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/06/dnc-russian-hacking-
conclusion-comes-google-linked-firm/
$100 million invested by Google into CrowdStrike:
https://www.crowdstrike.com/resources/crowdstrike-closes-100-million-financing-
round-led-google-capital/
The "17 intelligence agencies" that said Russians hacked the DNC relied solely on a report written by a private company to draw conclusions on the "Russian hacking." Is that reasonable?
So we have one senior fellow at this Atlantic think tank pushing for the administration to get and disseminate everything they can on a Trump/Russia connection and we have this other senior fellow at the Atlantic council Dmitri Alperovitch establishing the case that it was Russia that hacked the DNC.
can a company founded by a vehemently anti-Russian Ukrainian, who is a member of this vehemently anti-Russian think tank, be trusted to do a fair unbiased analysis when there is a question of Russian involvement?
Who else is a member of the Atlantic Council? Susan Rice.
Oh, and who funds the group? George Soros.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-13/george-soros-funded-think-tank-attacks-
disobedient-media-william-craddick-over-eu-co
Atlantic Council website:
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/

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Atlantic Council website:
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/

NATO - Atlantic Council
www.atlanticcouncil.org/nato
The United States and NATO must take steps to preserve the unity of the transatlantic alliance in the face of a “complex and dynamic security environment,” said ...

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NATO - Atlantic Council
www.atlanticcouncil.org/nato
The United States and NATO must take steps to preserve the unity of the transatlantic alliance in the face of a “complex and dynamic security environment,” said ...

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4um Title: Your guide to top anti-Russia think tanks in US & who funds them

the real boom in the ‘think tank’ industry came with the era of globalization. With a 200-percent rise in numbers since 1970. And in recent years, they’ve become more transnational, with foreign states and individuals sponsoring them in order to gain[/]curry favor in Washington.
One country that largely hasn’t bothered playing this game is Russia. Instead, mostly in the foreign policy and defense sectors, Moscow frequently serves as Enemy Number One for many advocacy groups. Here are some prominent outfits in the think tank racket, which focus on hyping up threats from Russia.
The Atlantic Council
Founded: 1961
What is it? Essentially the academic wing of NATO. The Atlantic Council serves to link people useful to the organization’s agenda across Europe and North America. However, in recent years, its recruitment has increasingly focused on employees who directly attack Russia, especially on social media. Presumably, this is to give them a guaranteed income so they can continue their activities, without needing to worry about paying the bills. Screenshot from atlanticcouncil.org
What does it do? Promotes the idea of Russia being an existential threat to Europe and the US, in order to justify NATO’s reason for being.
Who are its people? The Atlantic Council’s list of lobbyists (sorry, ‘Fellows’!) reads like a telephone directory of the Russia bashing world. For instance, Dmitri Alperovitch (of Crowdstrike, which conveniently alleges how Russia hacked the Democratic National Congress) is joined by the perennially-wrong Anders Aslund, who has predicted Russia’s impending collapse on a number of occasions and has, obviously, been off the mark. Then there’s Joe Biden’s “Russia hand,” Michael Carpenter and their recent co-authored ‘Foreign Affairs’ piece suggests he actually knows very little about the country. Meanwhile, Evelyn Farkas, a fanatical Russophobe who served in Barack Obama’s administration has also found a home here. Another interesting Atlantic Council lobbyist is Eliot Higgins, a “geolocation expert” who has made a career out of spinning tales from the Ukraine and Syrian wars but is, naturally, mostly disinterested in covering Iraq and Yemen, where the US and its allies are involved, but Russia has no particular stake. Lastly, we can’t forget CNN’s Michael Weiss, the self-declared “Russia analyst” who, by all accounts, has never been to Russia and can’t speak Russian.
Who pays for it? The Atlantic Council has quite an eclectic bunch of patrons to serve. NATO itself is a big backer, along with military contractors Saab, Lockheed Martin and the Raytheon Company, all of which naturally benefit from increased tensions with Moscow. The UK Foreign Office also splashes the cash and is joined by the Ukrainian World Congress and the US Department of State. Other sugar daddies include the US military (via separate contributions from the Air Force, Navy, Army and Marine Corps), Northrop Grumman and Boeing.

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Saab, Lockheed Martin and the Raytheon Company, all of which naturally benefit from increased tensions with Moscow

Heaven forbid that peace breaks out, somebody might actually have to beat an M1 Abrams tank into an indestructible plowshare.

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