2024 ELECTION

John McCain's son endorses Harris and hits Trump over Arlington cemetery incident

Jimmy McCain, son of the late Arizona Sen. John McCain, said Donald Trump's actions at the military cemetery prompted him to register as a Democrat and back Kamala Harris.

Sept. 3, 2024, 11:47 PM EDT

By Raquel Coronell Uribe

The incident involving Donald Trump's campaign staff at Arlington National Cemetery was the last straw for Jimmy McCain, the youngest son of the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

In an interview Tuesday on CNN, McCain said that after last week's events at the cemetery he registered as a Democrat and decided to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris this fall.

McCain, who recently returned from deployment at a military base in Jordan where three Army Reserve soldiers were killed in January, said he changed his party affiliation to honor his father and put "country first."

"I care about my family. I care about equal rights of everyone in this country. I care about all this," McCain said. "As much as I stayed as an independent, I decided that, you know, it was time to move on and do what I believe in."

McCain called Arlington National Cemetery “sacred” and said three generations of his family are buried there. He called Trump’s incident at Arlington a “violation.”

Trump visited the cemetery last week with relatives of victims who died in the Abbey Gate attack on Kabul airport during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan three years ago. According to the Army, a member of Trump’s team “abruptly pushed aside” a cemetery official so that campaign staff could take photos and videos in an area where they are normally prohibited. Trump’s team has disputed the Army’s account.

“Arlington Cemetery is to go and show respect for the men and women who have given their lives to this country,” McCain said. “When you make it political, you take away the respect of the people who are there.”

McCain also said that he has never forgiven Trump for calling his dad a "dummy" and that he was "not a war hero" because he had been held captive.

"He’s not a war hero," Trump said in 2015 comments. "He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured."

Trump, who never served in the military, then said: "He's a war hero because he was captured. OK, I believe — perhaps he's a war hero."

(https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/john-mccains-son-endorses-kamala-harris-hits-trump-arlington-national-rcna169476

(I never new Noname had a son, he's as stupid and corrupt as his father)

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4 Sep, 2024 14:01

US knows Russia’s red lines – Lavrov

Moscow takes the supply of long-range missiles to Ukraine very seriously, the foreign minister has said

The US is well aware that any decision to supply Ukraine with long-range missiles crossesMoscow’s “red lines” and could trigger a third world war, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned.

American officials are “close” to approving the supply of long-range cruise missiles to Kiev,Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing anonymous sources. The missiles in question – Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles (JASSM) – have a range of up to 900km and can be fired from Ukraine’s Western-supplied F-16 fighter jets.

“The Americans have already stepped over the red line that they set up,” Lavrov told reporter Pavel Zarubin on Wednesday, referring to Washington’s long-standing reluctance to provide Ukraine with weapons capable of striking deep inside Russian territory.

“They’re emboldened, and [Ukrainian leader Vladimir] Zelensky certainly sees this and uses it,” Lavrov continued. “But they need to understand, they’re joking about our red lines. Don’t joke about our red lines. They know perfectly well what they are.”

Last month, Lavrov declared that the US and its allies would be “asking for trouble” if they lifted their rules prohibiting Ukraine from launching long-range strikes against Russia.

“I’d like to again quote a statementby [White House National Security Council spokesmanJohn] Kirby, who said that [the US] should be very careful about increasing support for Ukraine so as to avoid World War III,” Lavrov told Zarubin.

Back in June, Kirby said that a major escalation of the Ukraine conflict could have “disastrous consequences, potentially across the European continent” and would harm US interests in the region.

Zelensky maintains that the West shouldn’t fear escalation from Russia, and that Ukrainian forces’ incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region proves that Moscow has no “red lines.”However, while Russia has typically been loath to respond to provocation by either Kiev or the West, it has continued to fight in a manner that favors its strengths – namely its massive advantages in artillery, missile stocks, and manpower.

Kiev’s attacks on the Crimean Bridge, for example, were met not by reciprocal attacks on Ukrainian civilians, but by massive and crippling missile strikes on the country’s energy infrastructure. Likewise, the presence of Western military instructors in Ukraine has been met with precision strikes on their positions, which the Russian Defense Ministry usually announces days later.

While Ukraine’s top military commander hoped that the Kursk operation would trigger an overreaction from Russia and force Moscow to pull troops from a busy sector of the front line near Donetsk,Russia did not take the bait. Instead, Moscow surged more troops to Donetsk, where they have breached Ukrainian lines and closed in on several key strongholds.

(The Globalists are trying their damndest to start WWIII before Trump becomes President again)

https://www.rt.com/russia/603516-lavrov-missiles-red-lines/

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NATO will do anything to survive