Posted on 01/16/2017 6:51:58 PM PST by Mariner
Outgoing U.S. Vice President Joe Biden called on Monday for sanctions on Russia to stay, urging the world to stand up to its "coercion and aggression" after President-elect Donald Trump mooted ending the measures under a possible deal with Moscow.
Speaking on a swan song visit to Kiev, Biden said the G7 nations and European Union should lift the sanctions only after Russia had fully implemented a peace deal on ending a separatist rebellion in eastern Ukraine and returned control of Crimea.
Trump, who will be inaugurated on Friday, raised the prospect that he would propose offering to end the sanctions imposed over Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea and its role in the rebellion in return for a nuclear arms reduction deal.
Without mentioning Trump, Biden appeared to take issue with the President-elect's comments made in an interview published in Monday's edition of the Times of London.
"The international community must continue to stand as one against Russian coercion and aggression," he told reporters, standing alongside Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
Biden stressed the 2015 deal on ending the rebellion by pro-Russian insurgents which is still continuing, with Washington accusing Moscow of failing to keep its side of the bargain.
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Russia intervened to protect their national interests.
Now Trump is proposing to let them keep it in exchange for a verifiable nuke deal...which is in US interests.
Fomenting revolution in Ukraine was never in US interests.
Hey, Joe, We Won
Biden...The sanctions were for a FAKE story, you dip.....
Hey, Joe, let’s talk about your son....
Biden’s Son Continues to Buy Gas Assets in Ukraine
http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/02/bidens-son-continues-to-buy-gas-assets.html
“It’s a big ‘effing deal!”
Joe is like the crazy uncle in the attic.
You never know what he is going to say.
But no one takes it seriously...
Hye Joe, you should try winning an election. Then you'd have a say.
Biden?
Who cares what Biden says.
Obama’s Ukrainian adventure was the stupidest foreign policy decision ever.
Yeah, I’m sure President Trump wants the advice of noted genius Joe Biden.
Nobody gives a crap who allowed us to see the dirty underbelly of the Democrats ? Of course, it WAS NOT the Russians. It was not because the great Hero Julianne Assange ( who has never been wrong) told us it was not and any 14 year old could tell us the password was “PASSWORD”!! I don’t care who tells us the NSA is violating our right to privacy!! I don’t care who exposes the corruption and bribery of Hillary Clinton .( now defeated!!). I don’t care who shows us the rigging of the primary and disgusting debate cheating!! I HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW!!, Glory and amnesty for Snowden and Assange NOW!!Screw the communist left!!
Joe Biden?, ... I hear 7-11 is hiring!
IIRC, Putin basically offered to split Ukraine and basically allow Western Ukraine to do whatever it wanted, even join NATO. That might not be such a bad deal.
“Obama’s Ukrainian adventure was the stupidest foreign policy decision ever.”
Are you forgetting funding and arming ISIS in an attempt to overthrow Assad? How about putting the Muslim Brotherhood in charge in Egypt?
The Iran nuke deal?
There are many to choose from, of which the Ukrainian revolution stands out as a contender for the worst.
Bye Bye Biden.
Biden picking up another cash drop from his son?
Not NATO, but the EU.
Split that b!tch right down the Dnieper.
Go lightly on poor Ol’ Uncle Joe. He’s out of a job and just wants to
make sure Hunter keeps his gig with his Ukrainian bros.
(see: “Hunter Biden Burisma Holdings” on any search engine)
Yeah he’s made some doozies, especially in the Middle East.
I think the ISIS move could have been a good one if done wisely: concentrate Jihadis in western Iraq to be killed. Of course Dumbo messed it up by throwing in the Assad angle.
I can’t even imagine what good he thought would come to the US from a Ukrainian revolt.
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