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Kerry: ‘I Don’t Know Anybody Who Says You Ought to Go to War over Crimea’
cns news ^ | 3/20/14

Posted on 03/20/2014 10:57:02 AM PDT by Nachum

(CNSNews.com) – In an interview Wednesday with a local Washington, D.C., affiliate, Secretary of State John Kerry said he doesn’t know anyone who wants the U.S. to go to war with Russia over Crimea, an autonomous republic in the southern region of Ukraine before Russia’s military intervention.

“I don’t know anybody in America who has suggested to go to war over Crimea. Do you want to go to war over Crimea? I don’t know anybody who says you ought to go to war over Crimea, so therefore, your options are economic and diplomatic and isolation,” Kerry said.

As CNSNews.com previously reported, despite repeated warnings by the Obama administration not to interfere in Ukraine’s soverneignty, Russia intervened militarily in the region. On March 2, the U.S. acknowledged that Russia was in control of Crimea. On March 16, Crimea voters approved a referendum to secede from Ukraine and join Russia.

On March 17, the White House announced it had imposed travel bans and froze the assets of seven senior Russian and four Ukrainian officials. Putin was not sanctioned though, because it would be “highly unusual and rather extraordinary” for the U.S. to sanction a head of a state of another country, a senior administration official said.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: crimea; cupcake; kerry; russia; sovietunion; ukraine; viktoryanukovich; war; yuliatymoshenko
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1 posted on 03/20/2014 10:57:02 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

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2 posted on 03/20/2014 10:57:26 AM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum

He must be off McCain’s “Friends” list.


3 posted on 03/20/2014 10:58:26 AM PDT by mazda77
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To: Nachum

I guess he doesn’t know McCain


4 posted on 03/20/2014 10:58:28 AM PDT by thorvaldr
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To: Nachum

Kerry, him not smart much.


5 posted on 03/20/2014 10:58:42 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (My citizenship is not here.)
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To: Nachum

I guess he doesn’t know any Turks. Erdogan said he would block the Bosporus if Crimean Tatars come to any harm by this Russian takeover.


6 posted on 03/20/2014 11:01:28 AM PDT by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Nachum

The Crimean War (1854-56) developed because of an argument between the French and Russian. This is not a repeat of 1854. Or is it?


7 posted on 03/20/2014 11:02:35 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Believe In The Law Until It Intereferes With Justice.)
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To: Nachum

So John, you don't remember me, after all those campaign contributions?

8 posted on 03/20/2014 11:04:42 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Nachum

You CAN’T go to war over Crimea, Horseface, or anything else, because you and your boss are douche filling stations, and ain’t no one skurred of you or your boss except the chickensh!t GOP.


9 posted on 03/20/2014 11:05:00 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Nachum
"NO John!! ... We're NOT going to nuke 'em! ...Let it go!"


10 posted on 03/20/2014 11:05:09 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Nachum

Has Kerry checked with bomb, bomb, bomb McCain? This is all Obama baiting. The further we can keep from war, the further we are from 10,000,000 draft, rationing, war taxes, Rosie the Riveter back in the factory for that’s what it took to beat Hitler and Putin has more plus the bomb.


11 posted on 03/20/2014 11:06:00 AM PDT by ex-snook (God is Love)
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John F*ckn:

If Crimea is not important enough to die for, why p*ss off the Russians? What is the point? Do you know?

Pathetic.


12 posted on 03/20/2014 11:07:18 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Nachum

Not to worry, mac daddy, the pu**y, just received another 100 boxes of red pens.


13 posted on 03/20/2014 11:08:01 AM PDT by chiefqc
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To: thorvaldr

14 posted on 03/20/2014 11:08:42 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Nachum

Not to worry, mac daddy, the pu**y, just received another 100 boxes of red pens.


15 posted on 03/20/2014 11:09:39 AM PDT by chiefqc
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To: SkyDancer

The Crimean War happened because Britain and France wanted to contain Russia so they joined with the Ottomans to inflict a defeat on Russia.

They still remember that in Russia and that is exactly why the country is not backing down on Crimea. Russians have never forgotten their humiliation at the hands of the West and are delighted today to see the West squirm in impotence.

They feel that is more than justified payback.


16 posted on 03/20/2014 11:11:40 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: dfwgator

Just be glad Wes Clark isn’t running the show. That idiot was willing to start a war with Russia over the Pristina Airport.

Fortunately the Brit on the ground told him “NO”


17 posted on 03/20/2014 11:12:18 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: chiefqc

This is probably what Neville Chamberlain said about the Sudetenland.


18 posted on 03/20/2014 11:12:27 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: cripplecreek
Fortunately the Brit on the ground told him “NO”

You know who that Brit was, right?

19 posted on 03/20/2014 11:15:04 AM PDT by dfwgator
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James Blunt which just makes it funny. Here he is looking a lot tougher than he does now.

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Never judge a book by its cover. Blunt may sing British pop with a falsetto voice but he has some solid military ass to back it up.
20 posted on 03/20/2014 11:19:25 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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