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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Why? Do you think we make a difference to world powers? Are you frightened?
How about we just do what we do, and not worry about what anyone else thinks?
/johnny
In his and his cronies’ efforts to diminish and discredit Reagan, he never learned one single thing.
Smartass comments like ‘the 1980’s called, they want their foreign policy back’ shows just how out of his league he and his entire feckless foreign policy crew is. To the detriment of all.
Probably too late for him to pick up a book and at least listen...and he’s too arrogant to admit he’s a dud. 6 years in the making. Robert Gates, pick up the courtesy phone please. But not even he could help him/us at this point. Downright scary.
Puti so lives inside 0bambi’s brain. He owns it.
Close the western banking window and see how fast the phone rings.
Can't. Clowns will eat him.
/johnny
That should get the obama crotch sniffers in a tizzy.
[This is what happens when the Alinskyite clowns in the White House try to pick freeze, personalize, and polarize the leader of a belligerent foreign country. These idiots think everything can be reduced to a political campaign.]
Exactly. In this White House the political advisers have the highest access and the last word on any decision. Benghazi, Syria and the U.S. response to the Arab Spring show what damage is done when political hacks supplant credentialed experts.
That is exactly whet Obama is doing.
Putin is responding by- putting planes over England, closing in on the invasion of the Ukraine, putting a sub off our coast, and cutting off gas supplies to Europe.
The vacuum created by the US lack of leadership will be filled and we will eventually be affected by the outcome.
Putin is afraid to speak with Obama. He fears the overpowering personality and articulate powers will cause him to cease his agression
Name one. This is FR, after all. It's not like we are overrun with them.
If everyone thought like you in 1774, we'd still be a crown colony.
I don't care which bully it is... Russia or the federal government. I won't kneel. I can only be killed once.
/johnny
Obama needs two translators when talking to Putin. One to translate what Putin says and one to post on the teleprompter what Obama says to Putin.
Two wolves agree upon the initial sheep count. Pre-kill agreements. Socialist-fascism.
I understand this is not true....rather more of the propaganda stuff going on. Whitehouse has on gov site this isn’t true. Who’s to know what is and isn’t anymore...impossible to know.
Just giving what I got. If you can't take it, don't start it.
/johnny
“Putin is responding by- putting planes over England, closing in on the invasion of the Ukraine, putting a sub off our coast”
Thats just pointless acting out. Its meaningless.
Cutting off the funds is going to hurt.
The other thing that we need to do is put the missile sheild in Poland and announce that we are going to drill drill drill. Of course Ostumbles won’t do that but it would work.
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