Posted on 08/07/2018 2:32:09 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Poland’s foreign minister Jacek Czaputowicz on Monday headed to Georgia on a visit marking 10 years since Russia’s invasion of that country.
“Ten years ago, as a result of the Russian Federation’s military aggression against Georgia, Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali Region/South Ossetia found themselves under a separatist rule established and supported by Moscow that is not recognised by the international community,”
“We oppose all efforts that interfere with the sovereign right of the Tbilisi authorities to exercise dominion over the territory of Georgia within its internationally recognised boundaries.
“We condemn actions aimed at actually integrating the separatists regions of Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali Region with the Russian Federation in the political, economic, military, infrastructural and social areas.”
The joint trip to Tbilisi follows in the footsteps of the late Polish President Lech Kaczynski, who in August 2008 organised a visit in support of Georgia.
"Today, on the tenth anniversary of these events, we are travelling to Georgia together with the foreign ministers of Lithuania and Latvia ... to jointly commemorate the victims of the war and in a gesture of solidarity with the Georgian state and people.”
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What would Pat Buchanan think/say?
Here is what Sarah Palin said in 2014 after Crimea debacle:
“I could see this one from Alaska. I’m usually not one to Told-Ya-So, but I did,” she posted on her Facebook page Friday. Within a few days, more than 71,000 people had “liked” the post.
Palin went on to describe her “accurate prediction,” quoting herself from the 2008 campaign trail:
“After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Sen. Obama’s reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia’s (Vladimir) Putin to invade Ukraine next.”
Palin also took a victory lap Monday on Fox News.
While Governor Palin was falsely dismissed, demonized and character assassinated by the American MSM and traitor American Democrats, it was the Republican Swamp led by Islamist Georgophile Songbird John McCain that put the seditionist knife in her back and engineered her defeat in 2008.
Precisely for that reason (among a few others) that I abstained from voting for Mitt Romney in 2012.
Anyway, when now Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was a Representative in Congress: he visited Kiev, and said that it's clear Putin will do his best to try and re-piece together the Soviet Union.
It does not mean that Putin did not act in the best interests of Ethnic Russians within or near the borders of the Russian Federation, or that the US does not have similar interests in the suppression of Islam.
What are they so worried about? We beat the Russians with only one trip around I285.
If Putin were so anti-Islam, he wouldn’t be so buddy/buddy with Turkey, Iran/Hezbollah, and put Israel’s interests on the line so much while buffing up Assad. He also supports the Taliban in Afghanistan.
And, if he truly cared about his people, he wouldn’t expend so much Russian blood and resources to his empire-building exploits. Hundreds of Russian mercenaries were killed by U.S. fire in Syria, but they’re everywhere! And he denies their existence to his own people! Now they’re in Central African Republic. God knows why. And what’s up with needing to support Ortega in Nicaragua and Maduro in Venezuela??? And continued funnelling of money and labor slaves to and fro North Korea?
Meanwhile Russia’s economy continues to hinge wholly on oil and barely grows. There are many things he could be doing to improve the day to day lives of his OWN people in the EXISTING borders, but he won’t do it. And that’s why the birth rate remains so low among other things.
...encourage Russia’s (Vladimir) Putin to invade Ukraine next...
Problem is Russia never invaded Ukraine after that US sponsored coup. If Putin did it would be over in about three days according to NATO’s commander.
The problem is, Ukrainians and Poles and Baltic states see things lot differently.
No doubt Soros, McCain, and ilk meddled - but not to the point that Ukrainians want to go back into the arms of Putin's Russia or don't view him as aggressor #1.
The Georgians and Chechens got what they gave to Ethnic Russians, and the Turks, Syrians and Iranians don't screw with Ethnic Russians. Hezbollah learned not to in Lebanon before Putin came to power.
It would be advisable for you to bone up on Russian-Israeli relations and border policy before embarrassing yourself.
Putin doesn't order Mercs anywhere, membership is voluntary, they are technically Illegal in Russia, and the business interests in Russia have them in the CAR to protect mineral deposits and natural resources currently purchased and exploited by Russia. Kind of like the oil we buy from and protect for the Saudi's (the guys that financed 9-11 for us).
Lastly, Putin is not going to undo 80 years of Communist and more recently, Globalist looting of Russians in 8 years, just as Bush 43 couldn't undo ANY of the Rat Progress since 1965, at all.
Russia has the equivalent of, if not more natural resources within their own borders than we do. Yet, their living standards still lag way behind countries like South Korea, which have far less.
You criticize the Saudi dilly-dalliances when America does it, but when Russia does it and worse, it's fine. And you did not address Russia's support of Maduro, Ortega, and Kim Jong Un.
Globalist looting of Russians in 8 years...
And Russians are not responsible for any of the ways their country continues to falter domestically and stagnate economically? They'd be better off if they didn't open themselves up to foreign investment?
Putin is not going to undo 80 years of Communist
That's no excuse to promote nostalgia and whitewashing of Soviet atrocities as cultural rallying points.
It would be advisable for you to bone up on Russian-Israeli relations and border policy before embarrassing yourself.
It does not take a PhD to see that if Trump weren't President, Putin would be bossing Netanyahu and calling all the shots as he had been doing for YEARS, and not the other way around. Now Israel finally has the upper hand in dictating Russia's behavior and they are forced to keep Iran at bay in Syria.
All thanks to TRUMP.
Standard of Living has to do with the length of time a nation subscribes to civilized capitalism, not amount of natural resources.
You criticize the Saudi dilly-dalliances when America does it, but when Russia does it and worse, it's fine.
Horse manure, I never said it was fine, just that we do the same.
And you did not address Russia's support of Maduro, Ortega, and Kim Jong Un.
No point, we support undesirable criminal foreigners that irritate Russia, Putin can likewise support undesirable criminal foreigners that irritate US.
And Russians are not responsible for any of the ways their country continues to falter domestically and stagnate economically? They'd be better off if they didn't open themselves up to foreign investment?
Russians will choose whom they do business with if they have the power to do so, just like Americans do.
So far Russians have chosen those YOU don't like and rejected those you do. Sorry for the Butt Hurt.
That's no excuse to promote nostalgia and whitewashing of Soviet atrocities as cultural rallying points.
Putin can promote anything he wants to unify the Russian people if they will accept it, just as Obama and the Rats can promote anything they want to divide America. Interestingly, your choice of issues reflects Obama's.
...Putin would be bossing Netanyahu and calling all the shots as he had been doing for YEARS, and not the other way around.
Now that is just ludicrous, Putin has never bossed Bibi around, ever.
Must you be so vulgar? You say something like that and I can't even process whatever else you write, even though I want to take it it into serious consideration and respond respectfully.
Criticism from Human Rights Watch
Citing her role in authorizing the use of so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques", Human Rights Watch called for the investigation of Rice "for conspiracy to torture as well as other crimes."[143] Criticism from Senator Barbara Boxer
California Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer has also criticized Rice in relation to the war in Iraq. During Rice's confirmation hearing for US Secretary of State in January 2005, Boxer stated, "I personally believe—this is my personal view—that your loyalty to the mission you were given, to sell the war, overwhelmed your respect for the truth."[144]
On January 11, 2007, Boxer, during a debate over the war in Iraq, said, "Now, the issue is who pays the price, who pays the price? I'm not going to pay a personal price. My kids are too old, and my grandchild is too young. You're not going to pay a particular price, as I understand it, within immediate family. So who pays the price? The American military and their families, and I just want to bring us back to that fact."
The New York Post and White House Press Secretary Tony Snow called Boxer's statement an attack on Rice's status as a single, childless female and referred to Boxer's comments as "a great leap backward for feminism."[145] Rice later echoed Snow's remarks, saying "I thought it was okay to not have children, and I thought you could still make good decisions on behalf of the country if you were single and didn't have children." Boxer responded to the controversy by saying "They're getting this off on a non-existent thing that I didn't say. I'm saying, she's like me, we do not have families who are in the military."[146]
Conservative criticism
According to The Washington Post in late July 2008, former Undersecretary of State and U.N. Ambassador John R. Bolton was referring to Rice and her allies in the Bush Administration whom he believes have abandoned earlier hard-line principles when he said: "Once the collapse begins, adversaries have a real opportunity to gain advantage. In terms of the Bush presidency, this many reversals this close to the end destroys credibility... It appears there is no depth to which this administration will not sink in its last days."[147]
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld repeatedly criticized Rice after their terms in office ended. In his book Known and Unknown: A Memoir, he portrayed her as a young, inexperienced academic who did not know her place.[148] In 2011 she finally responded, saying that Rumsfeld "doesn't know what he's talking about."[149]
In his book In My Time, Dick Cheney suggested that Rice had misled the president about nuclear diplomacy with North Korea, saying she was naïve. He called her advice on the issue "utterly misleading."
He also chided Rice for clashing with White House advisers on the tone of the president's speeches on Iraq and said that she, as the Secretary of State, ruefully conceded to him that the Bush administration should not have apologized for a claim the president made in his 2003 State of the Union address, on Saddam's supposed search for yellowcake uranium. She "came into my office, sat down in the chair next to my desk, and tearfully admitted I had been right," Cheney wrote.
Rice responded: "It certainly doesn't sound like me, now, does it?", saying that she viewed the book as an "attack on my integrity."[150]
Rice has also been criticized by other conservatives. Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard accused her of jettisoning the Bush Doctrine, including the Iraq War troop surge of 2007.[151] Other conservatives criticized her for her approach to Russia policy and other issues.[152] Views within the black community
Rice's approval ratings from January 2005 to September 2006
Rice's ratings decreased following a heated battle for her confirmation as Secretary of State and following Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Rice's rise within the George W. Bush administration initially drew a largely positive response from many in the black community. In a 2002 survey, then National Security Advisor Rice was viewed favorably by 41% of black respondents, but another 40% did not know Rice well enough to rate her and her profile remained comparatively obscure.[153] As her role increased, some black commentators began to express doubts concerning Rice's stances and statements on various issues. In 2005, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson asked, "How did [Rice] come to a worldview so radically different from that of most black Americans?"[154]
Rice and Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer participate in a news conference at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, May 23, 2007.
In August 2005, American musician, actor, and social activist Harry Belafonte, who serves on the Board of TransAfrica, referred to blacks in the Bush administration as "black tyrants."[155] Belafonte's comments received mixed reactions.[153]
Rice dismissed these criticisms during a September 14, 2005 interview when she said, "Why would I worry about something like that? ... The fact of the matter is I've been black all my life. Nobody needs to tell me how to be black."[156]
You say something like that and I can't even process whatever else you write...
I suspect Leezza would say:
"Get tough, and get back to work."
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