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Obama national security aides meet to discuss Ukraine
Reuters ^
| 3/15/2014
| Steve Holland
Posted on 03/15/2014 5:48:40 PM PDT by Hoodat
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's national security team discussed the Ukraine crisis in a session at the White House on Saturday after a last-ditch bid to find a diplomatic solution to the Cold War-style standoff with Russia floundered.
Secretary of State John Kerry, who just returned from talks with his Russian counterpart in London, was at the White House meeting along with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
Obama did not attend the meeting but was being briefed about it and other developments involving Ukraine, said Laura Lucas Magnuson, a spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council.
Crimea's pro-Russia parliament has scheduled a referendum on Sunday to decide whether the region should be annexed by Russia, an ominous development that Obama and his national security team have been trying to head off to no avail.
Obama said on Friday he still hopes a diplomatic solution can be found but that the United States and Europe are prepared to impose "consequences" on Russia if it does not loosen its grip on Crimea.
White House deliberations took on a new urgency as . . .
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhorussia; nationalinsecurity; obama; soskerry; ukraine; vascillation
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This country has no leadership. The whole world is falling apart, and Obama can't even manage to show up for work. Yet Roiters runs this story as if something is actually being done. Pathetic.
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posted on
03/15/2014 5:48:41 PM PDT
by
Hoodat
To: Hoodat
They couldn’t even find Ukraine on a map.
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posted on
03/15/2014 5:49:22 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Hoodat
What would it take for him to attend such a meeting?
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posted on
03/15/2014 5:50:28 PM PDT
by
John W
(Viva Cristo Rey!)
To: dfwgator
They have a golf course in the Ukraine? maybe it was a basket ball court.
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posted on
03/15/2014 5:52:44 PM PDT
by
jyro
(French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
To: John W
Disengaging Reggie’s docking clamp.
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posted on
03/15/2014 5:53:03 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Hoodat
To: F15Eagle
Exactly...if anything, Obama needs to spend MORE time golfing.
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posted on
03/15/2014 5:54:13 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: John W
And miss a game on the tele??
To: Hoodat
they really need Dennis Rodman to get anything done.
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posted on
03/15/2014 5:55:01 PM PDT
by
jyro
(French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
To: Hoodat
President Barack Obama's national security team discussed the Ukraine crisis in a session at the White House on Saturday after a last-ditch bid to find a diplomatic solution to the Cold War-style standoff with Russia floundered. Just tell Putin: "The 1980s called. They want their foreign policy back."
To: All
What about our protection treaty with Ukraine?
To: bennowens
What protection treaty? They’re not part of NATO.
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posted on
03/15/2014 5:56:15 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Hoodat
At the White House?
Why doesn’t Soros use his own company premises for his subordinates to have their conferences?
What a cheapskate.
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posted on
03/15/2014 5:56:24 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
To: John W
What would it take for him to attend such a meeting?Seeing that the meeting was held at his house, all it would have taken is for him to walk down a flight of stairs. Yet the only thing he has on his schedule this week is filling out his NCAA bracket.
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posted on
03/15/2014 5:56:42 PM PDT
by
Hoodat
(Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
To: Hoodat
Bastard better not pick the Gators to win it all, we’ll be doomed for sure.
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posted on
03/15/2014 5:57:14 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: John W
What would it take for him to attend such a meeting?Hold it in a bathhouse....or at the 19th hole.
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posted on
03/15/2014 5:59:43 PM PDT
by
lightman
(O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
To: Hoodat
President Barack Obama's national security team... Three chimps from the D.C. zoo?
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posted on
03/15/2014 6:00:18 PM PDT
by
jeffc
(The U.S. media are our enemy)
To: John W
“What would it take for him to attend such a meeting?”
If it were held in a fudge packing bath house with reggie and dead fish.
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posted on
03/15/2014 6:01:10 PM PDT
by
RS_Rider
(I hate Illinois Nazis)
To: dfwgator; F15Eagle
Obama doesn't have time for all this Ukraine mumbo jumbo. He's busy preparing for his annual ESPN appearance.
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posted on
03/15/2014 6:01:15 PM PDT
by
Hoodat
(Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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