Eegore wrote on 10/17/19 at 20:48:57: Ahh I thought that had been Press issued earlier.
The letter is dated the same day as the invasion- essentially, it was designed to goad Erdogan into action, distract from rising calls for impeachment. Trump creates a crisis, then pretends to fix it- it's no different than a gangster breaking your windows at night, then selling protection during the day. No one is fooled, and there is no expectation of anyone being fooled- they want us to know their capacity... it's part of the shake-down. Of coarse, none of it works without the Brown Shirts parading through our digital town square, celebrating the criminal as a great leader, letting us know that our neighborhoods have been captured from within. That is their hope, anyway.
Folks like the trolls here believe they will just slink back under their rock at the turning of the tide, anonymous- but they have been indelibly stained. Years from now, when asked what they did for our country in this moment, they will look away in shame, or offer a weak lie that no one will believe- including themselves.