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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....just another line in the sand for which he has become noted........Pooty’s puppet, once again, looks like the complete moron for all the world to see.
Ha, no doubt! Probably was all jazzed afterwards!
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