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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Putin had better not push Obama too far. Obama probably has a crack team of Occupy activists ready to set up a drum circle in front of the Russian embassy on a minute’s notice. Asymmetrical warfare — think Putin is ready for that?
No no no, even worse, Obama is going to enroll Putin in ObamaCare.
When is Obama going to play the race card?
LOL!
That would be a warcrime
Wait a minute. I LOVE AC/DC.
Oh yeah, that band, “Bam, Jerry, and the Holders”; I don’t like that group.
Texas is about to do the same thing....
Texas reset.
Not that I’m a Romney fan but he was laughed at by the democrats and media when he suggested during the campaign that Russia was our biggest potential threat.
Dear Mr. Putin,
One Request.
If you decide to EMP us, please instead of detonating one Giant EMP device over Kansas, please instead detonate two smaller deivces, one between Washington D.C. and NYC, and the other Between LA and SanFranSicko.
Thanks.
Signed the Heartland.
P.S. I recommend not trying to invade us after doing this.
(the above post is dripping in sarcasm)
The Bushies are no better because they have no strategy for victory, the GOPe containment policy is the same.
It was used in Iraq when the Iranians set IED’s in to kill our soliders in the Bush years.
NO RESPONSE TO IRAN OF A MILITARY NATURE, JUST THE STUPID TALKING THAT OBAMA HAS CONTINUED TO NOWHERE WHILE THEY DEVELOP NUCLEAR WEAPONS....
Yes. Has anyone else at anytime simply hung up the phone on an American POTUS? I can’t think of any, even in wartime.
If it were only that. We are not content to pry. We leave carnage.
This is exactly what Republicans, if they really did care about America, should have done. With O and the media.
I seem to remember this clever quote from Obama during one of the debates with Romney “Hello the 1980’s are calling and they want their foreign policy back”
(even a mocking slam on the traitør triggers the gag reflex)
From what I have been seeing in Russian Media, Kerry’s “Faked Indignation!” speech yesterday REALLY pi***d off the Russians.
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