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Ukraine defense minister ignores repeated phone calls from Chuck Hagel
The Washington Examiner ^ | February 20, 2014 | Joel Gehrke

Posted on 02/21/2014 7:26:52 AM PST by Timber Rattler

Ukraine Defense Minister Pavel Lebedev has refused to take multiple phone calls made personally by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, the Pentagon said Thursday.

"Secretary Hagel has been trying, himself, since early this week," Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby told reporters. Lebedev refuses "to communicate, to accept a phone call" from Hagel or the Pentagon.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chuckhagel; hagel; joke; ukraine
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To: Howie66

I would bitterly resent the defense minister of a foreign nation trying to contact anyone in the US military,
over internal problems here.

There’s a state department to conduct foreign affairs, if we need to contact another country’s government.


21 posted on 02/21/2014 7:59:23 AM PST by CondorFlight (I)
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To: Timber Rattler

Pavel Lebedev is too busy taking calls from Sergey Shoigu, defense secretary of Russia.


22 posted on 02/21/2014 7:59:32 AM PST by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: Howie66

UpChuck is isn’t getting the disrepect he truly deserves.


23 posted on 02/21/2014 8:01:38 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Timber Rattler

Who’d even want to take our calls anyway? Probably get some lecture on the glories of homosex. That seems to be America’s prime global interest in promoting these days. America offers only laughably impotent leadership, and the haranguing voice of degeneracy.


24 posted on 02/21/2014 8:04:30 AM PST by greene66
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To: RJS1950

You got that right.

Blanket Party would be a nice start.


25 posted on 02/21/2014 8:19:45 AM PST by Howie66 (John Wayne McCornyn...he's just like US! Honest!)
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To: CondorFlight

Hanoi John couldn’t be reached.


26 posted on 02/21/2014 8:22:46 AM PST by Howie66 (John Wayne McCornyn...he's just like US! Honest!)
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To: Dallas59

Who is old bama?


27 posted on 02/21/2014 8:59:57 AM PST by onedoug
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