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MOSCOW-- Russian President Vladimir Putin refrained from criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump at a news conference in China on Tuesday, but said a decision to shutter Russian diplomatic outposts in the U.S. was poorly handled.Speaking at a news conference during a summit in China on Tuesday, Putin dismissed as naive a question about whether he was di stanley cup sappointed in Trump.In comments carried by Russian news agencies, Putin said Trump is not my bride, and I m not his groom. Asked how Russia would feel if Trump were impeac stanley taza hed, Putin sai stanley water bottle d it would be absolutely wrong for Russia to discuss domestic U.S. politics.Russian officials cheered Trump when he was elected last year, and Putin praised him as someone who wanted to improve ties with Russia. However, further U.S. sanctions on Russia and the U.S. decision to close Russian diplomatic outposts have raised concerns that the two countries remain far apart. The Trump administration last week ordered the closure of three Russian facilities in the U.S.: The San Francisco consulate and trade missions in New York and Washington. It was the latest in a series of escalating retaliatory measures between the former Cold War foes.Putin said the U.S. had a right to close consulates but it was done in such a rude way. It is hard to hold a dialogue with people who mix Austria with Australia, he continued, an apparent reference to a decade-old gaffe by George W. Bush, who during a 2007 visi Qrgn Bush: Make CEOs Pay
WASHINGTONDefense Secretary Leon Panetta says the U.S. military did not intervene during the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya last month because it was over before the U.S. has sufficient information on which to act.At a news conference, Panetta lamented second-guessing about how the U.S. handled the attack in Benghazi on Sept. 11, which saw the deaths of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens. He said the U.S. military was prepared to respond but did not do so because it lacked what he called real-time information. You don t deploy forces into harm s way without knowing what s going on, Panetta said. We felt we could not put forces at risk in that situation. When pressed about stanley cup the drone that had been diverted to the consulate that could have provided real-time information, Panetta said: There s a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking going on here. Panetta also said he and senior U.S. military commanders felt strongly abou stanley cups t b stanley quencher eing cautious, adding: It was really over before we had the opportunity to really know what was happening. When CBS News correspondent David Martin asked whether they had forces on any heightened alert in that area because of the approaching anniversary, Panetta said they did.Gen. Dempsey added: And let me point out, it was 9/11 everywhere in the world. Defense officials say a general alert had been issued to U.S. forces worldwide, but no special alert had been ordered f |
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