Posted on 11/24/2014 11:17:49 PM PST by wetphoenix
Though it went entirely unnoticed in the Western press, all major Russian news outlets – RIA Novosti, Sputnik, RT, and others – were only too happy to report on what US Secretary of State John Kerry said last week to the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in private: “Just ignore Obama’s statements.”
According to Mr. Lavrov, John Kerry advised him not to pay too much attention to the US President’s harsh rhetoric directed toward his state. As recently as September, during his speech to the 69th UN General Assembly in New York, Mr. Obama puzzled and shocked Mr. Lavrov by placing “Russian aggression in Europe” in second place among the world’s threats, behind only the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, resigning to third place the “brutality of terrorists in Syria and Iraq.” “Aggressive Russia” again was included in Mr. Obama’s world top-danger list during November’s G20 Summit in Australia.
According to a translation commissioned by the Observer, Mr. Kerry advised Mr. Lavrov to “just ignore Obama’s statements.” Google translator phrases the nuance slightly differently: “Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says US Secretary of State John Kerry called on him to ‘pay no mind’ to a statement by President Obama.” But the take-home message is clearly the same.
Back in September, astonished Russia’s Foreign Minister reacted with uncloaked anger. Mr. Lavrov said: “We earned the second place among the threats to international peace and stability.” He went on to say that he “did not understand whether he [Obama] was serious or not and whether there was an Orwellian element in it.”
Puzzled, Mr. Lavrov turned to his US counterpart for an explanation, and it looks like John Kerry clarified it all.
“Talking to John Kerry,” said Mr. Lavrov in his speech to the State Duma assembly, “I asked him, what did
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Kerry’s the nice cop, Barry’s the butch Village People cop.
Shades of Yasser Arafat
basically Obama is Grubering the UN in statements to them.
More Gruberism.
So they know what I’ve known for years. What’s new?
PING
Total Dumb & Dumber PsyOps.
Mmmmmmm...sounds like something Rice, Harf and Psaki....the State Dept's Three Stooges came up with.
Even more unnerving----these three idiots have top ntl security clearance. The word "embarrassing" doesn't really cover the depths of this idiocracy.
On broadcast TV---Psaki could not even find a State Dept report--that supposedly listed the "achievements of the ISIS airstrikes." And Psaki apparently communicates w/ ISIS to get valuable inside information: Psaki recently said: "ISIS surprised itself w/ its ability to take so much territory in such a short time."
And we have this imbecile monitoring our ntl security.
I’m glad Kerry’s saying that privately as we are in NO POSITION to start beating the war drums against Russia. Russia has been modernizing their military for the past 15 years, while we’ve been tearing ours apart. This is NOT THE TIME to test our capabilities. Maybe 5 or 10 years from now, and only if we launch a Reagan-style re-build, but certainly NOT NOW.
Completely unnecessary.
Every world leader on Planet Earth already knows that Obama’s a pathological liar.
Bye bye John Kerry. He won’t last much longer.
IOW, Kerry is the latest who has been sent out to clean up the usurper’s mess.
When I was a kid, Kerry ran for a local office as a conservative “decorated” veteran. He lost. The next time he ran as a left wing, anti-war prick. He won. All you need to know about this cretin : )
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Putin took Obama seriously? Now THAT’s news.
~When I was a kid, Kerry ran for a local office as a conservative “decorated” veteran. He lost. The next time he ran as a left wing, anti-war prick. He won. All you need to know about this cretin : )~
I guess it says a lot about his voters in the first place. He has actually got what he wanted and it is a big question who are cretins after all.
Stephen - thanks for sharing that story about Kerry... I didn't know it - and I'm sure the 'oh so unbiased press' would never share it. Interesting.
Good point.
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