Posted on 07/25/2014 8:10:24 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
Obama thinks he runs the show but Europe looks to be taking the lead without him:
Russia could avert EU sanctions if it stops arming pro-Moscow rebels in Ukraine, the Dutch Prime Minister has said.
“All indications are that Russia is continuing to arm the separatists,” Mark Rutte told a parliamentary committee on Friday.
The PM, who is seen to have a key role in the EU’s response to the downing of airliner MH17, said: “There’s an easy way out for Russia: to distance themselves from the separatists, and stop arming them.”
He added that the Netherlands would support sanctions if Russia did not do so, and would also do so if it were proven that Russia had been behind the downing of the airliner, in which 298 people, including 194 Dutch, lost their lives.
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2014-07-25/dutch-pm-russia-still-arming-ukraine-separatists/
BTW Putin may have tipped his hand: Maria Putin and her boyfriend snuck out of the Netherlands in the middle of the night.
Tell it to the tourists.
“When did you turn against the West, and America?”
What exactly is the vital interest of America?
Russia-Ukraine history of disputes date back centuries.
We have plenty of challenges, without presuming to have answers for every situation like this around the globe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Ukraine_relations
We have the same interests that we have had against Russia for generations, preventing them from conquering Europe and defeating us.
Russia is on the move, and while they have your support, I still side with NATO, America, and the West.
I don’t want what many of us here helped defeat, to continue to regain power.
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