[Talisker]

This is an interview wtih Vladmir Putin about the American Presidential election. He references both Trump and Hillary, and his attitude towards each. It's not long, and it's translated. It's worth watching just to get a feel for this guy, and his way of communicating. He's well aware Hillary is provoking him, and he's also warning the stupid bitch not to push it too far.

[ETL]

Donald Trump: 'Putin has eaten Obama's lunch' on Ukraine

Mar 13, 2014
Eun Kyung Kim: TODAY

Donald Trump slammed President Obama Thursday on TODAY for failing to take a stronger line against President Vladimir Putin in dealing with Ukraine, saying he feared Obama would now make up for lost time with imprudent moves to "show his manhood."

The real estate mogul and reality-TV star, who has criticized Putin for sending military troops into Crimea, said Obama must now take fierce steps to prevent the situation from escalating further.

"We should definitely do sanctions and we have to show some strengths. I mean, Putin has eaten Obama's lunch, therefore our lunch, for a long period of time," Trump said. ..."

http://www.today.com/news/donald-trump-putin-has-eaten-obamas-lunch-ukraine-2D79372098

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Mike Pence on Clinton: ‘She Pressed the Button and Russia Invaded Ukraine’

by Michelle Moons
7 Oct 2016

Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence tells voters in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania that a Trump-Pence administration would reverse the “weak and feckless” foreign policy of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

He also included details of the now Democratic presidential nominee’s failed “reset” with Russia.

After recognizing the men and women who have served in the U.S. military, Pence spoke of visiting the fields in Gettysburg with his daughter and laying a wreath where “the 27th of Indiana lost 40 percent of their soldiers in one charge up a small hill.”

“What we have inherited, is freedom,” said Pence who spoke of the “price of freedom.”

Pence, running mate to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, called Clinton the “architect of America’s foreign policy” as he said that the leadership of Clinton and President Barack Obama has, “weakened America’s place in the world.”

“History teaches that weakness arouses evil,” said Pence. “That the weak and feckless foreign policy of [former Secretary of State] Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has created an environment on the world stage, of an America leading from behind, of moving red lines in Syria.”

In August 2012 Obama set a red line for Syria. “We have been very clear to the Assad regime — but also to other players on the ground — that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized,” he said according to CNN. Assad crossed that line in 2012 and 2013 when Sarin gas was used to kill Syrians, including an August 2013 attack that killed 1,400 according to Bloomberg. Obama had promised airstrikes, but didn’t follow through.

Pence continued in his speech to the Pennsylvania crowd, “Hillary Clinton actually said that the number one priority during her tenure as Secretary of State was the reset with Russia.”

“She posed for a picture, she pressed the button and Russia invaded Ukraine,” said Pence. “And Russia has inserted itself along the brutal regime in Syria. As we stand here today threatens to bring its incredible violence against defenseless civilians in Aleppo.”

Pence talked about the Obama and Clinton decision to withdraw all combat forces from Operation Iraqi Freedom forces and the resulting “vacuum after 2012 in which the terrorist organization ISIS was able literally to be conjured up out of the desert sands and overrun vast areas of Iran.”

He criticized Clinton for her part in the nuclear deal with Iran, of which Pence said, “all we did was delay their nuclear ambitions.”

He spoke of Clinton’s State Department under which four Americans died during a terrorist attack on Americans in Benghazi, Libya. He criticized Clinton for telling the families of the fallen that a video was to blame, but emails sent before she spoke with the families revealed that she knew it was terrorist attack virtually from the beginning.

http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/10/07/pence-clinton-posed-picture-pressed-button-russia-invaded-ukraine/

[ETL]

From 2014

Yushchenko, hero of Ukraine's Orange Revolution warns Europe that Putin won't stop at Crimea

by Matthew Schofield - McClatchy Foreign Staff
March 27, 2014

Many Ukrainians believe you need look no further than the face of Viktor Yushchenko to understand Russia's aggression against Ukraine.

Once smooth and ruggedly handsome, it still bears the scars from an assassination attempt when someone slipped dioxin into Yushchenko's food. ..."

Read more here:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article24765781.html#storylink=cpy
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Russia Deploying Tactical Nuclear Arms in Crimea

Obama backing indirect talks with Moscow aimed at cutting U.S. non-strategic nukes in Europe

BY: Bill Gertz
October 10, 2014

Russia is moving tactical nuclear weapons systems into recently-annexed Crimea while the Obama administration is backing informal talks aimed at cutting U.S. tactical nuclear deployments in Europe. ..."

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russia-deploying-tactical-nuclear-arms-in-crimea/

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Ignore the red and orange lines. They were already on the map when I downloaded it.

[Lady Heron]

The fact that the leadership is telling him things will go back to normal after the election, just wait, you are the boogey man this election to scare voters into a patriotic fever behind dems and hide their malpractice, says it all.

The fact they chose Russia to be the boogey man just shows their stupidity. WHO WANTS WAR WITH RUSSIA in their right mind???? They did it to get the older generation who do vote to go back to their cold war way of thinking.....but everyone who lived in the cold war days never wants to go back to that! We have no interest in Syria, and we spy on everyone....what is the point of this in the American people's eyes, why would we want to get nuked and lose our lives for Syria or to hide dems misconduct. This has been a huge flop and American's are not getting on the war bandwagon. Everyone thinks this is the stupidest, mot dangerous talk they have every heard that I have talked to.

[snippy_about_it]

I think his reference to whispering in our ears.... Is a reference to that old leak where obama got caught telling him after the election he’d have more flexibility.

[Moonman62]

Putin knows how politics works. He makes more sense than the media or Democrats in general.

[Mariner]

While I'm sure it's at least partially not true, Putin seems like a reasonable man. But a ruthless one.

Full disclosure: I have no issue with Russia reasserting their pre-Soviet sphere of influence (Russian Empire circa 1916, except what is now NATO). And, I do not believe they are a natural enemy to the US...as Iran, NK, China and a few others are.

[bert]

Bfl

[moovova]

Bkmk.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Putin Russian patriot, vs Trump American Patriot. War with a Clinton administration? Who’s going out to fight it? 80% of our G.I.s can’t stand Hillary and don’t want her as a CIC. They are tired of meal on wheels and all the PC crap they have to contend with. They want “leadership”, you can’t blame them. Putin is more respected in the world than Obama, and he will also make mince meat out of Hillary. Who is she going to turn the Gov’t. to, Keane???? Will Slick finally get his chance to be a war President de facto, pulling Hillary’s strings? I see a possible new American Russian alliance in the works, but there are those who will not allow it. Consider how much we have in common with the Russians. We are both diverse societies with common goals. We both have large borders to defend. There is an olive branch being extended, but will the media report it as such? I doubt it.

[Daniel Ramsey]

Yaauup, i would say he is right on, its jusy a theatrical play to divert attention, Putin has a very good intel about both Trump and Hillary.

[Pelham]

Interesting video.

Putin comes across as believing that Hillary’s hostile focus on Russia is nothing more than an attempt to distract the American public.

Putin seems ambivalent when asked which candidate he would prefer to see elected.

He doesn’t think that Hillary trying to make Russia the big enemy is a wise idea, but he also doesn’t seem angry about anything that is transpiring between the USA and Russia.

A far cry from Khrushchev banging his shoe on the podium.

[crz]

This guy needs someone to sit down eye to eye with him and explain to him that he isnt the though guy he thinks he is, and that if he is really serious about the mid east, he might find it easier to work with us instead of for his own personal gains.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk