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Obama Officials Wonder: Why Won’t the Boss Stand Up to Putin?
Daily Beast ^ | September 29, 2016 | Nancy A. Youssef and Shane Harris

Posted on 09/29/2016 9:04:10 AM PDT by C19fan

Russia and Syria appeared to attack two more hospitals and a bakery in the already besieged eastern city of Aleppo on Wednesday, in an aggressive push to seize and starve the city—home to as many as 100,000 children—back into regime control. So how will the Obama administration respond to an increasingly provocative Russia? For now, it won’t. There is an unspoken understanding within the administration that despite the many provocations Russia has carried out in Syria, there will be no major American response, a position that increasingly is drawing the ire of top national security officials, three U.S. officials told The Daily Beast.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: kgbputin; obama; putin; putinbuttkisser; putinista; syria
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Because Putin is a man's man and Obama is a metrosexual.
1 posted on 09/29/2016 9:04:10 AM PDT by C19fan
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Because Putin has Hillary’s emails and Obama’s real BC.


2 posted on 09/29/2016 9:06:56 AM PDT by kabar
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Although I hate to give Obama credit, maybe he also realizes he’s played himself into a losing hand. Russia is next door; we’ve had enough of serious foreign wars. There’s only so much we could do.


3 posted on 09/29/2016 9:07:08 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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Occam’s Razor says it’s because he’s a lazy coward.


4 posted on 09/29/2016 9:07:17 AM PDT by be-baw (still seeking)
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Pooty’s hackers got the goods on Hussein.

The Hillary-Hussein emails are the blackmail motherlode.


5 posted on 09/29/2016 9:07:58 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo ("To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." - Teddy Roosevelt)
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Because fighting for ISIS is too dumb even for him!


6 posted on 09/29/2016 9:08:56 AM PDT by The Toll
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Because Putin is holding his raisins in his hand;


7 posted on 09/29/2016 9:09:06 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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Because Mr. Putin has all of their emails and probably many of their cell phone communications.

For this very reason Hillary should not be put in the WH, they’ll blackmail her too, IMO.


8 posted on 09/29/2016 9:11:09 AM PDT by Ms Mable
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Because Putin understands America better than 0bama Understands Russia, or anything else.
The communist crap that 0bama is espousing came from the Kremlin, Putin knows that, and he doesn't want any of it back.

9 posted on 09/29/2016 9:12:14 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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“...a position that increasingly is drawing the ire of top national security officials...”

Isn’t it a bit late for this....about EIGHT YEARS too late??
What a crock.


10 posted on 09/29/2016 9:12:45 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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Putin has turned Russia into a Terror State and just like Syria it should be treated as such.


11 posted on 09/29/2016 9:13:33 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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Hussein leads with his behind.


12 posted on 09/29/2016 9:14:48 AM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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Putin sees Obama just as I see Obama - an entitled, urban, post-modern American socialist, who has more loyalty to his strange black liberation and leftist ideology than his own nation. Putin also sees a man because of his disloyalty to his own nation, who, rather than leading, will hide behind the organs of power like NATO, the EU, the Federal Reserve, to make trouble and chaos in the world.

You can’t trust such people, and you can only protect yourself and your country from them, which Putin is doing.


13 posted on 09/29/2016 9:15:08 AM PDT by PGR88
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“Russia and Syria appeared to attack two more hospitals and a bakery in the already besieged eastern city of Aleppo”

Obama is probably conflicted because the bakery likely doesn’t make cakes for homo couples?


14 posted on 09/29/2016 9:16:24 AM PDT by Leep (Just say no to half dead hillary and wrong lane kaine!)
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Sorry. Putin is now the leader of the Free World. Hopefully we can change that with Trump.


15 posted on 09/29/2016 9:18:31 AM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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Obama is siding with Al Qaeda/ISIS and pretending they are Moderate Rebels
while Russia is siding with Assad/Syria


16 posted on 09/29/2016 9:18:31 AM PDT by 4rcane
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“that despite the many provocations Russia has carried out in Syria”

Because all they did was defend an ally against our proxy attack and keep us from openly bombing the Syrian army. Our senior national security people are utterly insane and literally want a shooting war with Russia in Syria. They think it will easily be contained there.

We haven’t had such a nutty star chamber since Lemay and Lemnitzer wanted to do a nuclear first strike on Russia.


17 posted on 09/29/2016 9:19:12 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up....)
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If they did it was because they were targeting ISIS. The author selectively leaves out pertinent details. This is generally called Agitprop, which I believe is the portmanteau version of agitation propaganda.


18 posted on 09/29/2016 9:20:22 AM PDT by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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To: Safetgiver

Laughable.

Not even in Russia.


19 posted on 09/29/2016 9:20:23 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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“Putin has turned Russia into a Terror State and just like Syria it should be treated as such.”

By ‘terror’, you mean he put a monkey wrench in Western globalist aggression, makes Obama, Kerry and McCain look like the buffoons they are, and killed a lot of their proxy skinheads and jihadis.

Cool. Not Genghis Khan, but decent.


20 posted on 09/29/2016 9:20:59 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (One party feigns virtue, the other flaunts its corruption. May God reward both as they deserve.)
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