Posted on 03/01/2014 10:03:52 PM PST by kingattax
President Obama promised Friday there would be “costs” if Russia moved troops into Ukraine, but he didn’t specify what those costs might be. Sen. John McCain has several suggestions for Obama, including the sanctioning of high-level Russian officials; restarting missile defense plans in Eastern Europe; and bringing Georgia, a former Soviet republic, into NATO. McCain said he plans to push from the Congressional side, he told The Daily Beast in an exclusive interview Saturday evening.
McCain wants the administration to expand its threat to pull out of the G8 Summit in Sochi scheduled for June. That limited move is unlikely to convince Putin to give up his control of Crimea, where Russia has its 15,000-man strong Black Sea Fleet and where unmarked but Russian-controlled paramilitary troops not control the two main airports.
“I think Obama’s threat is laughable,” McCain said. “But I think we ought to do it and every other international gathering of leaders, because the one thing that Putin enjoys is strutting on the international stage.”
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True. But I still think he has a point here. I doubt Obama can pull it off tho.
Having a vague, distant feeling of when our country was led by people that at least gave the appearance of knowing how to handle things in the big leagues. It all seems so quaint now...
Term limits is still the better solution.
Why is this any of our business at all? Crimea is Russian. Period. Split Ukraine East & West. It is the only way.
Just to clarify - “George Bush stopped Putin in Georgia” - is it most common version of 2008 august events in US?
Simply to clarify, nothing more.
Sarah Palin predicted this back in 2008 and the media laughed at her and called her stupid.
Looks like she was right again and Obama was asleep at the switch again.
Yet the media can’t bring themselves to say that she was right and Obama is incompetent.
I'm no big W fan, but he would say what he meant, speak his intentions clearly, then do those things.
I guess your own comments (such as that italicized above) were about how he was otherwise portrayed in the media?
And Pussy Riot. Don’t forget Pussy Riot.
These issues should have been settled in 1994. But then you had the same numbskulls that gave us The Dayton Accords who created this mess. Just took a little longer for it to blow up like Yugoslavia.
It says PUNISH not INHUMANE TORTURE
I have a better idea Senator - let’s force Putin to listen to you prattle on 24/7!
That just might work. 'DEAR GOD I'LL DO ANYTHING...JUST MAKE IT STOP!!!"
McCain worked with defense contractors as a liaison officer to the Senate in the late 1970’s.
I figure he still works with them trying to get this country mixed up in places around the world so the contractors can get some business.
It was annexed to Ukraine as some kind of gesture.
The Ukraine has been independent for 25 years and have done nothing more than dug themselves into a hole.
The EU and the USA as instigators doesn't help.
May God protect all sides.
As far as the USA....we are not involved in this. They haven't attacked us and the Ukraine is trying to sucker us into getting involved.
My God, McLame found another TV camera...run!
In 2004 Tyahnybok was expelled from the Our Ukraine parliamentary group for a speech calling for Ukrainians to fight against a "Muscovite-Jewish mafia." His advisor Yuriy Mykhalchyshyn established a "‘Joseph Goebbels Political Research Centre" un 2005. Mykhalchyshyn referred to the Holocaust as a "period of Light in history". Andreas Umland, a political scientist at the National University of Kiev Academy, wrote: "Svoboda is a racist party promoting explicitly ethnocentric and anti-Semitic ideas. Inside, Svoboda is much more radical and xenophobic than what we see”.
After the 2010 conviction of the Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk for his supporting role in the death of nearly 30,000 people at the Sobibor camp, Tyahnybok rushed to Germany to declare him a hero who was “fighting for truth.”
Svoboda’s openly pro-Nazi politics have not deterred Senator John McCain from addressing a EuroMaidan rally alongside Tyahnybok, nor did it prevent Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland from enjoying a friendly meeting with the Svoboda leader.
On Maidan Square 30% of the protesters were nationalists and neo-nazis, who mostly came to Kiev from Lvov and the West Ukraine. They destroyed a memorial to Ukrainians who died battling German occupation during World War II. Sieg heil salutes and the Nazi Wolfsangel symbol became a common sight in Maidan Square.
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