Posted on 03/02/2014 5:26:16 PM PST by SkyPilot
The Obama administration on Sunday worked to isolate Russia on the world stage even as its president, Vladimir Putin, showed no signs of rolling back his military intervention in Ukraine.
President Obama spoke by phone with leaders from Great Britain, Germany and Poland, and he dispatched Secretary of State to Kiev on Tuesday for a show of solidarity with the new Ukrainian government.
After suspending preparations for an upcoming Group of 8 summit in Sochi, the administration began canceling lower-level diplomatic and economic meetings with Russian counterparts. And senior administration officials warned that Russia could be booted from the G8 altogether and that its economy would suffer because of Putin’s decision to occupy the Crimean peninsula following the ouster last week of Ukraine’s pro-Russia president, Viktor Yakunovych.
The strategy, described in a briefing senior administration officials on the condition of anonymity, was aimed at demonstrating to Putin that his intervention in Crimea would not go unpunished while also offering him “an offramp” if he chose to reverse course.
“It is Russia’s choice to behave in this manner,” one senior administration said, or whether it wants to return “to the community of civilized nations.”
Yet it was unclear Sunday if Putin cared or was even listening to the condemnation of Obama and U.S. allies. He sought and received authorization from the Russian parliament for military force just hours after Obama warned him to stay out of Ukraine, and administration officials acknowledged that Russia had reinforced its military position over the weekend.
The administration officials said more than 6,000 Russian troops in Ukraine and that its forces now had “completely operational control of Crimea.” The U.S. has seen evidence of unrest and “ethnic skirmishes” in eastern Ukraine, an official said...
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I believe that wasn’t the only country who got sc*****.I believe Obama abandoned the entire Missile program in the region. Didn’t Obama also take some troops out of Germany?
“And in other news, one of the coldest winters on record has Russia considering withholding for its own use supplies of natural gas normally bound for Europe through its pipeline network. Such a move could be seen as isolating the continent from needed energy.”
The Russians are just heartbroken, I’m sure.
Is America still technically regarded a civilized nation? Especially as the country is devolving into a corrupt, one-party banana-republic, and whose prime foreign policy agenda is promoting homosex?
Hey Berry, want a trip to the space station?
How well did that work 80 years ago when Japan invaded China ?
"Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose!"
--Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
--Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás (George Santayana)
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
--Ecclesiastes 1:9 (NIV)
The whole rainbow in your face thing is because the demonicrats fear Ted Cruz, he will take away the hispanic advantage, and the demonicrats think they will need to replace them with a larger share of the LGBT vote.
I know that is what I was thinking about when I was out patrolling the Mojave.
ROFL. Boone. Mr tons of fun.
981 days left and we could be all the back to the Stalin era. With in one month Russia will be a super power again. I feel we are right about 1963 now. 17.5 trillion in short term debt and losing everywhere Putin can have what ever he wants. 981 days you won’t recognize the world. But we will have health care. EU could always right some more rules or threaten Putin with an army of men wielding baguettes. 981 days maybe Cuba could rise from the dead.
Ever wonder why Tenpenny looks sorta like Soros? Ever feel like you live in Megaton?
These and other questions will soon be answered by Vlad Putin. But it’s a lesser evil...
BWAHAHAHA!
How’s that RESET button working for you, bunkie?
Somebody on here comment:
This morning when surfing news channels I caught a discussion(sorry, forgot which channel) with a well known college professor commenting about the Ukraine mess. He said that in 2010 Ukraine had a monitored(by the US and many other western countries)national election that elected their president as well as the legislature. The elections were declared fair and legal. Now comes 2014 and the riots start, resulting in the overthrow of the president and their 1300 legislators are thrown out of office.
A council then appointed a new president as well as new legislators. Not elected, but appointed. Now comes Putin in the Crimea and so far only the Crimea protecting their interests in the naval and other military facilities in there.
So who supports the legal and proper government of Ukraine? Putin or Obammy? Obammy seems to me to support the illegal self appointed government! Rebels, revolutionists.
Is Obammy, OKerry, the MSM and all the rest of the world on the wrong side?
Obama tells Putin ‘if you like Ukraine you can keep Ukraine’
You Always Have Veronica.
Cowards speak.
Obama:” I can be much more flexible after the election.”
Medvedev “ I’ll tell Vladimir.”
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