Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Exclusive: Putin Halts All Talks With White House
Daily Beast ^ | 4/25/14 | Josh Rogin

Posted on 04/25/2014 12:58:14 PM PDT by Nachum

As new U.S. sanctions against Russia loom, the Kremlin has shut down—at least for now—intensive high level communications between top U.S. and Russian officials.

Since the invasion of Crimea, President Vladimir Putin and President Barack Obama have had regular phone calls in an often half-hearted attempt to deescalate the ongoing crisis inside Ukraine. But as the U.S. and EU prepare to unveil new sanctions against Russia, Putin has decided the interactions should stop. The Kremlin has ended high-level contact with the Obama administration, according to diplomatic officials and sources close to the Russian leadership. The move signals an end to the diplomacy, for now.

“Putin will not talk to Obama under pressure,” said Igor Yurgens, Chairman of the Institute for Contemporary Development, a prominent Moscow think tank, and a close associate of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. “It does not mean forever.”

Obama and Putin last spoke over the phone on April 14, a call that the White House said was initiated at Moscow’s request. Obama urged Putin in the call to end Kremlin support for armed, pro-Russian activists creating unrest in eastern Ukraine. Obama also warned that the U.S. would impose more “costs” on Russia if Putin continued his current course. According to the Kremlin’s readout of the call, Putin denied Russian interference in eastern Ukraine and said “that such speculations are based on inaccurate information.”

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: halts; momjeans; obama; obamaputin; obamaukraine; putin; putinukraine; russia; talks; ukraine; ukrainecrisis; white
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100101-115 last
To: SoFloFreeper

Notice the Russian Foreign Minister is pushing Hillarys ridiculous button with his Eff U middle finger. No accident, me thinks. :)


101 posted on 04/26/2014 7:09:09 AM PDT by ResisTyr ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God " ~Thomas Jefferson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: JRandomFreeper
But if too many Americans in the early 1940's felt about this matter as you do...well, you know; We would by now be other than a Free Republic.

Just giving what I got. If you can't take it, don't start it. /johnny


Good morning. Actually, I have to agree with you that it was I who created the opening; you were correct giving back what ya got.

Last night, I just didn't want to go through another slug-fest on FR. Some posters prowl here looking to start fights -- not that you are one of them.
102 posted on 04/26/2014 7:16:17 AM PDT by Resettozero
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 78 | View Replies]

To: griswold3

That foolish reset button ”led” to nothing of the kind. This Russian-Ukraine struggle had been going on for centuries.


103 posted on 04/26/2014 7:16:25 AM PDT by ResisTyr ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God " ~Thomas Jefferson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: pallmallman

Yep, elections have consequences.


104 posted on 04/26/2014 7:25:49 AM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 99 | View Replies]

To: Nextrush

The “Bushies” (WTF? Are you serious?) conducted military operations in Kuwait and Iraq. In both cases there was greater participation from international forces that there was in the Korean War. Both of them demonstrated their abilities in diplomacy, military strategy and foreign relations. You are waaayyy out of line to think that the Bushes were “no better” than Obama

Both “Bushies” (are you a DU plant? “Bushies”??) had military experience. GHW Bush was the ambassador to China. GW Bush was governor of a large state with international dealings. Obama organized protest marches in Chicago. There is NO comparison.

No strategy to victory?? DUde - we won the Gulf War. We won in Irag. Saddam Hussein is dead.

No response to Iran?? DUde - The Bushes cooperated with Israel and Iran had no nuclear weapons during their terms. Obama doesn’t cooperate with Israel.


105 posted on 04/26/2014 9:58:39 AM PDT by kidd
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: kidd
Saddam Hussein is dead.

And what replaced him?

106 posted on 04/26/2014 9:59:38 AM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 105 | View Replies]

To: Nachum

Boehner needs to study Putin.


107 posted on 04/26/2014 10:02:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: dfwgator
And what replaced him?

Someone who isn't Saddam Hussein. Sheeesh.

The situtation in Iraq is now worse than when Bush left office. It is still far better than it was under Hussein.

108 posted on 04/26/2014 10:06:08 AM PDT by kidd
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 106 | View Replies]

To: Nachum

Next set of sanctions:

1. White House will stop buying Stolichnaya Vodka;
2. No more late-night viewings of Fist of the North Star when The One is feeling restless;
3. No more discounts on vacation junkets to Florida;
4. Blockade all warm-water Russian ports with direct access to the Atlantic Ocean;
5. No more Russian Internet porn on White House computer, I don’t care how hot Petrograd Peter’s putz is.


109 posted on 04/26/2014 3:01:38 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Resettozero

Oooooh, alright. I’ll try.

There is something worth mentioning, though. A good ol’ boy from TX told us a few years ago to avoid believing everything we see or hear from the media during these years.

Although many who weren’t mentored by such men tend to have some sort of emotional block against listening to them and seeing their wisdom, he was certainly right. Such men also had a decency and civility about them when referring to political opposition. I don’t see such dignified behavior now and don’t see any good ones behind political speech. We lose that, and we’ve lost some of the essence of what it is to be Americans like our forefathers.

I’m on our side. It appears that not many others are. There’s no real respect in political and business society for men who’ve served outside of offices and shops. Even many who claim to have served are begrudging and lack proper bearing.

There was a great and true Naval officer using FR a few years ago. He said that he feared that our nation has no will to fight (referring to non-military people, of course). He was right. He also gave some good personal advice about the future—advice that only Americans like the greater ones of our past could follow.


110 posted on 04/26/2014 3:32:59 PM PDT by familyop
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 100 | View Replies]

To: Nachum

Let me get this straight. According to the white house Putin called obama. Yet it was obama telling Putin what to do. I doubt Putin made the call.


111 posted on 04/26/2014 3:59:48 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: familyop
There was a great and true Naval officer using FR a few years ago. He said that he feared that our nation has no will to fight (referring to non-military people, of course). He was right. He also gave some good personal advice about the future—advice that only Americans like the greater ones of our past could follow.

I'd be interested in knowing what his FR handle was. If you remember, please PM it to me so that I can dig through some of FR's archives that may or may not still be on a lonesome i386 server somewhere.

I credit my dad, who was a man, a working man, a Democrat, who would have been 99 this June. Obviously, you had a such a figure in your early life as well. Kind of hard to explain who we once were to someone...nowadays...who doesn't understand...intuitively...isn't it?...

R2z
112 posted on 04/26/2014 4:07:52 PM PDT by Resettozero
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 110 | View Replies]

To: Resettozero

...a Democrat until sometime in the Carter Administration...


113 posted on 04/26/2014 4:27:30 PM PDT by Resettozero
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 112 | View Replies]

To: kidd

The bipartisan (Republican and Democrat)
foreign policy of the United States since World War 2 involves policing the world under international law with international forces as you note.

The words from the two major parties may be different, but the policy is the same, policing with no military victory.

That’s how we got Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

I’m a real conservative who takes Douglas MacArthur’s words spoken 63 years ago this month seriously.

“In war there is no substitute for victory”

The politicians-internationalist visionaries
etc. have taken war in a different direction since WW II

When America fights a war it should fight to win.

The Taliban came from Pakistan created by the Pakistani intelligence service, the ISI. Instead of sitting in bunkers and shooting out of them or making little pin prick attacks in Afghanistan or pin prick drone strikes in Pakistan, you take care of Pakistan.

During the Korean War when the Chicoms came in they wouldn’t let MacArthur fight the Communists in China to defeat them like Japan was in WW II.


114 posted on 04/26/2014 6:21:21 PM PDT by Nextrush (AFFORDABLE CARE ACT=HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY BAILOUT ACT)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 105 | View Replies]

To: mrsmith

True.


115 posted on 04/28/2014 8:05:56 PM PDT by ReformationFan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100101-115 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson