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 next last
To: Resettozero
My hope is that FR folks use judicious and wise use of their words on FR

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

61 posted on 04/25/2014 5:18:52 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: Nachum

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.


62 posted on 04/25/2014 5:37:42 PM PDT by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Nachum

Puti so lives inside 0bambi’s brain. He owns it.


63 posted on 04/25/2014 5:38:24 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Mohammed was a Child Rapist and Islam is a Totalitarian Death Cult.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Nachum

Close the western banking window and see how fast the phone rings.


64 posted on 04/25/2014 5:55:24 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Georgia Girl 2
Close the western banking window

Can't. Clowns will eat him.

/johnny

65 posted on 04/25/2014 5:59:43 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 64 | View Replies]

To: Nachum

That should get the obama crotch sniffers in a tizzy.


66 posted on 04/25/2014 6:01:09 PM PDT by soycd
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: skeeter

[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.


67 posted on 04/25/2014 6:02:00 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: JRandomFreeper
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?


That's how I think too much of the time. The "why" of my post isn't worth attempting to explain if a FReeper (or anyone else) doesn't intuitively or by his experience understand the "why". Honest.

Frightened? Not really; it's more of a heightened awareness of impending turbulence. If I were scared witless, what's it to you?

Make a difference to world powers? No, johnny; I guess your words on FR won't make any difference to how world events unfurl at all. 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.

Your response to my post indicates your unwillingness for fulfilling my hope: not to say more on FR than we ought to for a while. Okay.
68 posted on 04/25/2014 6:06:05 PM PDT by Resettozero
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 61 | View Replies]

To: Georgia Girl 2
Close the western banking window and see how fast the phone rings.

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.

69 posted on 04/25/2014 6:06:34 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 64 | View Replies]

To: Mariner
So we should just bury our heads in the sand and not do anything until it specifically affects us? That is really dumb. Essentially, Obama's current foreign policy consists of just leading from behind.

The vacuum created by the US lack of leadership will be filled and we will eventually be affected by the outcome.

70 posted on 04/25/2014 6:06:49 PM PDT by kabar
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 60 | View Replies]

To: Nachum

Putin is afraid to speak with Obama. He fears the overpowering personality and articulate powers will cause him to cease his agression


71 posted on 04/25/2014 6:07:16 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: soycd
That should get the obama crotch sniffers in a tizzy.

Name one. This is FR, after all. It's not like we are overrun with them.

72 posted on 04/25/2014 6:12:57 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 66 | View Replies]

To: Resettozero
I refuse to live like anything but a free man on free soil where I was born. I don't 'be quiet' for anyone.

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

73 posted on 04/25/2014 6:14:48 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 68 | View Replies]

To: Nachum

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.


74 posted on 04/25/2014 6:18:32 PM PDT by BulletBobCo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Nachum

Two wolves agree upon the initial sheep count. Pre-kill agreements. Socialist-fascism.


75 posted on 04/25/2014 6:18:36 PM PDT by RedHeeler
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Nachum

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.


76 posted on 04/25/2014 6:26:03 PM PDT by caww
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: JRandomFreeper
If everyone thought like you in 1774, we'd still be a crown colony.

Wild and ignorant accusation; you know me not well at all. Like another gun-happy poster on FR today, you are shooting carelessly at FRiendlies. Let's not chat anymore tonight. Please and thank you.

R2z

-30-
77 posted on 04/25/2014 6:28:32 PM PDT by Resettozero
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: Resettozero
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

78 posted on 04/25/2014 6:30:08 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 77 | View Replies]

To: tcrlaf
I think the Russians are more PO'd because of all the media here ......our journalists who want to report what's going on are basically muffled or denied their story if it isn't favorable to the US/Obama. Further they all have to blame Russia for all...across the board.


79 posted on 04/25/2014 6:37:00 PM PDT by caww
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: Nachum

“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.


80 posted on 04/25/2014 6:42:54 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 69 | View Replies]


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