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.”
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Notice the Russian Foreign Minister is pushing Hillarys ridiculous button with his Eff U middle finger. No accident, me thinks. :)
That foolish reset button ”led” to nothing of the kind. This Russian-Ukraine struggle had been going on for centuries.
Yep, elections have consequences.
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.
And what replaced him?
Boehner needs to study Putin.
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.
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.
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.
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.
...a Democrat until sometime in the Carter Administration...
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.
True.
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