Posted on 09/24/2014 2:05:09 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
“Russia’s actions in Ukraine challenge [the] postwar order,” he said. That was not what the Russians wanted to hear from the president. Moscow’s U.N. ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, sank deep in his chair, and its foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, looked on stony-faced.
“Russia poured arms into Eastern Ukraine, fueling violent separatists and a conflict that has killed thousands,” Obama said. “When Ukraine started to reassert control over its territory, Russia gave up the pretense of merely supporting the separatists and moved troops across the border.”
The president was not finished. “This is a vision of the world in which might makes right, a world in which one nation’s borders can be redrawn by another,” even while “America stands for something different. We believe that right makes might—that bigger nations should not be able to bully smaller ones. That people should be able to choose their own future.”
Obama vowed to defend the people of Ukraine, reinforce the NATO alliance and impose additional economic sanctions on Russia.
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Like anyone really believes him. Russia will do what it wants without penalty.
Says the Nobel Negro peacemaker.
That's a blog, right?
‘Obama vowed to defend the people of the Ukraine’
Isn’t he little LATE?
I’m quite positive Putin is shaking in his boots while repeating “oh noes, oh noes”.
/s
As will Mexico with her invasion of this country.
Putin sends in tanks and soldiers. Obama “zaps” him with a speech. Well, I’m sure that will clear the matter right up.
His being latte is extraordinary. ..
Oooooohhh. Patin will withdraw because of obie’s unkind words.
For his next trick, 0 will piss in Putin’s Corn Flakes! That’ll show him! That’ll show ‘em all!
Sneak? At first maybe.
“Gradual” might have been a better word
I notice he also took the opportunity to trash the USA about Ferguson.
I'm surprised he didn't say
If you like your current country you can keep it.
bigger nations should not be able to bully smaller ones
unless it comes to Global Warming then it’s OK
“We get out into the open and are seen, kapow!” the paratrooper says.
“We dashed out onto the road, there was a field, sunflowers, and a checkpoint,” he continues. “They started to bomb it — bam bam bam — and they destroyed it.”
“Eighty guys were killed,” said the paratrooper, who was wounded in the attack. He added: “I was told only 10 made it out.”
“Obama vowed to defend the people of Ukraine...”
That’s nice, but what about defending the people of the United States? So far, President Buckwhear has salted the US with invaders from Mexico, Iran, ISIS and Central America. Maybe he can find some old fascists and invite them in, too. Oh, wait, Soros and his neo-fascist gang are already here. Heil Obuma!
Withdrawn but keeps them nearby. That is not really what you call “withdrawn”.
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