Posted on 02/02/2017 10:05:17 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
The US ambassador to the United Nations offered a strong condemnation of Russia in her first appearance at the UN Security Council on Thursday, calling on Moscow to de-escalate violence in eastern Ukraine and saying that US sanctions against Moscow would remain in place until it withdraws from Crimea.
"The United States continues to condemn and call for an immediate end to the Russian occupation of Crimea," said Nikki Haley, President Donald Trump's envoy to the world body. "Crimea is a part of Ukraine. Our Crimea-related sanctions will remain in place until Russia returns control over the peninsula to Ukraine."
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
Of all the issues in the world ....
Haley sounds like a neocon Soros stooge
Kinda what could be expected from someone who endorsed 3 of Trumps GOP rivals but nevertrump
McCain was in Ukraine in December
US troop arrived in UKraine in December
Pamela Engel
May 4, 2014
British newspaper The Guardian notes that recently, readers have been complaining of pro-Russia propaganda being posted in the comments section of articles about Russia and Ukraine.
One reader wrote to The Guardian:
"One need only pick a Ukraine article at random, pick any point in the comments at random, and they will find themselves in a sea of incredibly aggressive and hostile users (the most obvious have accounts created since February 2014 ... but there also exist those who registered with the Guardian before the high point of the crisis) who post the most biased, inciteful [sic] pro-Kremlin, anti-western propaganda that seems as if it's taken from a template, so repetitive are the statements. Furthermore, these comments are consistently capturing inordinate numbers of 'recommends', sometimes on the order of 10 to 12 times what pro-Ukrainian comments receive."
Guardian comment moderators believe this is an orchestrated campaign.
Russia has worked hard to make people believe that the country is supporting the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine and defending those people against some type of threat. These "comment mills" play into that strategy.
Last year, The Atlantic wrote about how the Russian government apparently pays people to "sit in a room, surf the Internet, and leave sometimes hundreds of postings a day that criticize the country's opposition and promote Kremlin-backed policymakers."
This practice isn't new, according to The Atlantic. But it can stifle open discussion about political issues in Russia, giving a louder voice to those who support the Kremlin.
http://www.businessinsider.com/putin-paying-people-to-post-pro-russia-propaganda-in-comments-2014-5
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Kremlin pays internet trolls to flatter Putin
Ben Hoyle - Moscow
October 11 2013
Russian investigative journalists and bloggers have uncovered an army of internet trolls paid to pour invective on the Kremlin's opponents and heap praise on President Putin.
Posing as job applicants, the reporters discovered the government hacks working at a small company called the St Petersburg Internet Research Agency. ..."
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/asia/article3891720.ece
This is a time-honored dance, a dance Trump is the master of.
Before you can make an honorable deal in a high-profile case like this, with the whole world watching, you have to stake out a very strong position.
So far they are playing it exactly right.
I don't see Crimea going back to Ukraine, especially under the conditions it was in Ukraine's “care,” before.
Europe is going to have to step up and fund NATO and then put up with what Russia might do of its own saber-rattling.
0 put us here, but Trump can now say that the EU obviously doesn't care about anything Russia does because they don't prepare properly for the fallout.
If Russia blocks oil to the EU, we can sell more or justify more drilling, anyway.
And what about Mike Pence, Jeff Sessions, and Trump himself, in their comments I posted above? Sounds like *you* a phony-baloney butt-kissing Putin troll. An official, paid one, or just one acting on your own.
Maybe they’re not planning on beating Putin. Maybe they’re just planning on keeping him bogged down in the Ukraine, to show him the cost of recklessly invading another country. The Russian military isn’t all that good and their economy is in the dumpster - a costly intervention abroad might be, shall we say, chastening?
Putin’s using the sanctions to rebuild Russian indrusty and the war isn’t very costly to them. Last I checked they’re on track for more growth than we had last year. The sanctions are helping rather than harming just as they did to South Africa in the 70s and 80s.
>a costly intervention abroad might be, shall we say, chastening?
The Russians don’t view it that way. What they see is hypocritical American empire that violated the deal we made with Russia for early elections, who arms and trains Ukrainian Neo-Nazis to oppress Russian speakers, who’s words about illegal conquest are laughable due to our own illegal conquest of Kosovo. All they see is an American bully from our actions.
Boom! Get out of Ukraine Putin, there is man with balls in the WH now!
Neocon light weight Haly openly defies Pres Trump’s intention to detente with Russia. She will get fired soon I hope
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“The pick of Nikki Haley will be baffling to me. “
It took her out of a valuable slot, SC Gov, and put her where she can’t do much damage. Her SC Gov replacement, Henry McMaster, is a Trump ally.
In my estimation the ONLY thing which has prevented an invasion of the Ukraine so far is Russian recognition of Ukrainians as fellow orthodox Christians and a hope that Ukraine will return to sanity after the present Soros/Nuland color-revolution government in Kiev is gone.
“Last I checked they’re on track for more growth than we had last year.”
You checked wrong. US GDP growth for the last year is 1.6%. Russia’s official data shows -0.2% for them, but it is believed to be inaccurate and the real decline larger.
On track this year, not last.
“Here is what would probably happen in a real Russian invasion of the Ukraine”
That article is hilariously wrong in hindsight.
1. “Ukies army would cease to exist within 24 hours” - ha ha ha
2. “Russian electronic warfare devices would ensure the success of the invasion.” ha ha ha
3. “Combat aircrafts, helicopters, rockets and drones of the Ukraine Armed Forces would fall to the ground” - ha ha ha
4. “ Under the absolute dominance of Russian aviation, Ukraine’s Armed Forces would be almost completely paralyzed by Russian electronic warfare devices, incapable of self-defense.” ha ha ha
5. “The Ukraine military would cease to exist in less than 24 hours. Army groups would be completely disoriented and disorganized. “ ha ha ha
6. “With the massive artillery strike on combat positions, a massive exodus of Ukrainian soldiers would start.” ha ha ha
7. “Russian Special Forces would systematically capture strategic positions (bridges, airfields, railway junctions, electricity power plants etc). The Special Forces of the Main Intelligence Directorate and the Stormtroopers of the Russian Airborne Forces would hit the ground deep in the Ukrainian rear. “ - h aha ha
oh that is a funny article you posted
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