He called me names then he Unfriended me.
Posted on 07/28/2014 2:49:39 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, is a “thug” and a “liar”, one of Britain’s most senior ambassadors has said, as the EU prepares today to approve tough new sanctions against Moscow.
Sir Peter Westmacott said the West’s increasingly firm response to Russia was beginning to have an impact on the Kremlin.
The British ambassador to the United States said Moscow’s aggression in Ukraine was starting to look like “the wrong call”.
He spoke as the Ministry of Defence announced that a battle group of 1,350 troops and armoured vehicles, including Challenger tanks, would join Nato exercises in Poland.
The Government said Exercise Black Eagle in south-west Poland would see Britain’s biggest deployment to Eastern Europe since 2008.
The exercises were designed to reassure Nato’s eastern members that the alliance would shield them from Russian aggression.
Sir Peter said Mr Putin’s behaviour in Ukraine had been “thuggish, dishonest and reckless” and he “thought he’d done pretty well after he stole Crimea”.
“It doesn’t look so good now,” he said on the US cable channel MSNBC, part of the NBC group. “It’s starting to look like this was the wrong call. This is a defining moment for what is going on in Ukraine.
“We’ve had some very bad behaviour from the Russian side for a long time now, and now we’ve had this terrible atrocity — the shooting down of the aircraft. We have to change the cost/benefit analysis for Putin, for the Russian people, for the government that they have elected there.”
Nato has stepped up manoeuvres in Eastern Europe since the annexation of Crimea with generals believing the alliance needs to reset its stance towards a more aggressive Kremlin.
Exercise Black Eagle is the latest Nato war game to be bolstered at short notice in the area.
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Are we going to get a repeat of yesterday’s thread comments? :)
McGruff and other Putin lap dancers will cry in their comrades diapers upon reading this.
That depends on if the Putin cheerleading squad shows up.
[insert Putin laughing photo here]
So is the POTUS.
Hey if it’s Lizzie Warren vs NJFatboy in 2016, I’m writing in Putin.
Totally unlike our Nobull Peace Prize winnning Preeezeee.
He called me names then he Unfriended me.
"What difference does it make?"
So what?
LOL for sure.
One of these wankers is Sir Peter Westmacott, care to guess which one?
Blah, blah, blah, blah. Six months ago, this diplomat was probably kissing Putin’s arse.
Oh my, you found a photo. I suppose the thread is over.
I’m guessing the freakish troll on the right
Clearly, Putin being a “thug and a liar”, certainly puts him in good company, considering some of the other hard cases we see around the world. He is just better at the game than OUR “thugs and liars”, i.e., the Current Regime now squatting in the White Hut, including Eric Holder and Jean-Francois Kerre`. Of course, they are expendables, and mere pawns in the much larger game going on.
Putin is in a distance-and-direction urination contest with one of the big money manipulators that has propped up the Current Regime, George Soros, but this is still not out in the open.
Too bad Obama doesn’t have even a tenth of this ambassador’s guts.
They’re heeere!
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