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McCain: Here’s How to Punish Putin
Yahoo/Daily Beast ^ | 3-1-14 | Josh Rogin

Posted on 03/01/2014 10:03:52 PM PST by kingattax

President Obama promised Friday there would be “costs” if Russia moved troops into Ukraine, but he didn’t specify what those costs might be. Sen. John McCain has several suggestions for Obama, including the sanctioning of high-level Russian officials; restarting missile defense plans in Eastern Europe; and bringing Georgia, a former Soviet republic, into NATO. McCain said he plans to push from the Congressional side, he told The Daily Beast in an exclusive interview Saturday evening.

McCain wants the administration to expand its threat to pull out of the G8 Summit in Sochi scheduled for June. That limited move is unlikely to convince Putin to give up his control of Crimea, where Russia has its 15,000-man strong Black Sea Fleet and where unmarked but Russian-controlled paramilitary troops not control the two main airports.

“I think Obama’s threat is laughable,” McCain said. “But I think we ought to do it and every other international gathering of leaders, because the one thing that Putin enjoys is strutting on the international stage.”

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TOPICS: Canada; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Japan; News/Current Events; Russia; US: Arizona; US: District of Columbia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: arizona; canada; crimea; europeanunion; france; g7; g8; germany; japan; johnmccain; mclame; mcshame; nato; obama; russia; russianoccupation; russianoccupiers; senatorjohnmccain; senatormccain; ukraine; unitedkingdom; viktoryanukovich; yuliatymoshenko
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To: Busko

“McCain is irrelevant. Washed out dud. Only good to slam conservatives.”

Bingo. Winner!


41 posted on 03/02/2014 1:47:55 AM PST by ebshumidors
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To: kingattax

Here’s how we punish mclame.................nursing home!


42 posted on 03/02/2014 3:53:43 AM PST by ronnie raygun (zippy the a##clown sez..............................)
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To: dfwgator

McCain should probably be in a nursing home.


43 posted on 03/02/2014 4:09:07 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: kingattax
Is MeCain scheduled for today's MSM talk shows?

He's a shoe-in when bashing Conservatives and The T.E.A. Party.

Will those shows acknowledge Palin & Romney were right on Russian foreign policy while Obama looks like a fool.

44 posted on 03/02/2014 4:20:19 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: kingattax
Refusing to go to a MEETING!!! Yeah....WOWIE....Now THAT":S a THREAT if I ever heard one!!!

We are doomed....Ukraine us DOOMED....all because we have Obama for President!

Obama has BLOOD on his hands.....so do the STUPID VOTERS that voted this Communist in.

45 posted on 03/02/2014 4:43:09 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: BlueDragon

W also had Dick Cheney’s stiff spine and strong brain, unlike Slow Joe Bite Me’s GIRLIE little brain and no spine.


46 posted on 03/02/2014 4:49:22 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: kingattax
(I keep asking, and all I get is clever, flippant answers).

Why would threatening to pull out of the G8 conference be a threat?

Any SERIOUS answers or discussion?

47 posted on 03/02/2014 5:17:39 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ("There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: MetaThought

Not bad! Same thing he always screams “ We must send troops some one needs to die and die now” He should be called the brown bomber as he has his head so fare up his ass. The man needs to be in a home for the unstable.


48 posted on 03/02/2014 5:44:02 AM PST by lostboy61 (Lock and Load and stand your ground!)
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To: BlueDragon

I guess your own comments
= = = = = = = = = = ==
I am sorry, I was being very facetious and sardonic....I, (when I think MY intention is obviously obvious) sometimes neglect the ‘sarcasm’ tag....


49 posted on 03/02/2014 9:51:05 AM PST by xrmusn (6/98 --In CNNs (feeble) mind, EVERYONE that doesnt ask for more Kool-Aid is bullying BO)
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To: McGruff
Yeah McCain handled Libya so well

...and Egypt

...and Syria

...ad nauseum.

50 posted on 03/02/2014 9:55:08 AM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Ann Archy

I'm convinced the 0 chose Biden for the reasons you outline. He didn't want any challengers, or anyone who would stop him in his own lying...

51 posted on 03/02/2014 12:23:27 PM PST by BlueDragon (Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.Proverbs 29:18)
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To: xrmusn

Perhaps it is me that owes the apology to you. For what it's worth, how far it could go, I do offer apology, to you.

With so many others turning on the U.S. and "the West" generally on these pages here of late, for a moment it was almost difficult to tell (that you were being facetious).

It is interesting how well George W. Bush's Presidential Admin looks in comparison to 0.

W surrounded himself with enough people who carried old-school diplomacy in their veins.

Obama has Valerie Jarret -- and appointed the conniving liar Hillary (Rodham) Clinton as Sec. of State, for reasons of pure political convenience to himself and the far left wing of the Democrat Party (so that that "Left" could tighten their stranglehold).

Obama's somewhat recent choice of words to Russia has simply played into the most strident of the xenophobic, West-hating mindset. Things could have been expressed differently.

The man is an asshole.

52 posted on 03/02/2014 1:15:32 PM PST by BlueDragon (Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.Proverbs 29:18)
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To: BlueDragon

NP

TU


53 posted on 03/02/2014 1:20:08 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98 --In CNNs (feeble) mind, EVERYONE that doesnt ask for more Kool-Aid is bullying BO)
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To: Jeff Head

Justa pingsta


54 posted on 03/03/2014 12:29:08 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Was Occam's razor made by Gillette?)
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To: Nifster

Hey nifster, come over here and read Jeff Head’s account of what actually occured.......Post #17


55 posted on 03/03/2014 1:31:04 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Was Occam's razor made by Gillette?)
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