Obama Officials Wonder: Why Won’t the Boss Stand Up to Putin?

Daily Beast ^ | September 29, 2016 | Nancy A. Youssef and Shane Harris

[C19fan]

Russia and Syria appeared to attack two more hospitals and a bakery in the already besieged eastern city of Aleppo on Wednesday, in an aggressive push to seize and starve the city—home to as many as 100,000 children—back into regime control. So how will the Obama administration respond to an increasingly provocative Russia? For now, it won’t. There is an unspoken understanding within the administration that despite the many provocations Russia has carried out in Syria, there will be no major American response, a position that increasingly is drawing the ire of top national security officials, three U.S. officials told The Daily Beast.

[Doogle]

....because Pooty knows all about Odungo....probably more than Comet. If Odungo don’t knuckle under Pooty exposes him for what he is.....most likely with proof

[ETL]

Putin couldn’t hope for a better friend/enabler in the WH than Obama. Obama showed him his promised “flexibility” when he bent way over to hand him basically everything he demanded on missile defense, the New START nuke treaty, the Iran nuke deal...

[Mariner]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-us-inviting-terror-attack-de-facto-support-for-terrorism-syria/

[GOYAKLA]

Obama is like my neighbors yapper dog, pees like a female and submits/squats, if you look at him!

[Uncle Sam 911]

Instead of saying he would be flexible after the 12 election, he should have said he would capitulate after the election.

[caww]

Stalin has nothing to do with this...we’re talking about protecting borders and nations that matter who surround nation state borders. That’s the reality.....not some old war horse blathering about the past that has nothing to do with the reality of the present demographics.

It’s about where ones borders are weak and where they need strengthening......or we sure wouldn’t be talking about building a wall on our southern border to protect our nation or changes in our immigration laws.....

Yet you expect other nations to just lay down their borders? It would seem so.

[ETL]

Stalin has nothing to do with this...we’re talking about protecting borders and nations that matter who surround nation state borders. That’s the reality...not some old war horse blathering about the past that has nothing to do with the reality of the present demographics.

It has everything to do with the sort of Russia that KGB Putin seeks to build, or restore. His aim is to retake Russia's former satellite states and basically restore the evil empire. He may not be as bad as Stalin, but he certainly can be viewed as "Stalin-lite".

[Psalm 144]

“You mean the sort of “Western aggression” that we see in Georgia, Crimea and the Ukraine?”

Yes. All that globalist client state manipulation.

“Or that “silences” its political opponents with poison pills?”

As opposed to Arkancide.

“You’re a real Putin-loving jackass, aren’t you?”

I do admire his stand against humanity’s greatest enemy in our time. The transnational elimination of nation states and national sovereignty, led principally by scum in Washington DC, scum in Berlin, and scum in Riyahd.

You know, all those Bush/Obama/Clinton/Kerry policies that you support without question.

By the way, your spam is impressive. It’s sort of like a primitive DDOS attack, burying people under cuneiform clay tables and runed bones or something.

[Psalm 144]

“Stalin has nothing to do with this...we’re talking about protecting borders and nations that matter who surround nation state borders. That’s the reality.....not some old war horse blathering about the past that has nothing to do with the reality of the present demographics.”

ETL cannot process that. There is a sort of cognitive deficit at work there where he can’t access information more recent than 1953. He is the ideological equivalent of some unsurrendered old Japanese on an atoll all by himself but for coconuts, coconut crabs, and his rusting Arisaka with which he defends his atoll.

Nevertheless he is our friend. He is going to vote for Trump, which makes him... a comrade.

Keep on keeping on ETL. My world would be diminished by your absence.

:-)

[ETL]

There is a sort of cognitive deficit at work there where he can’t access information more recent than 1953.

It's your dreamboat, KGB/FSB Putin, who wants to relive the past. Who misses the days of the mass-murdering communist Soviet Union. Who thinks Stalin deserves to have statues in his honor. Who is in the process of bringing back the diabolical KGB.

I just provided you a mountain of evidence right here on this thread to support all this. But, being the Putin butt kisser that you and will always be, you couldn't care less. You are fully on-board with that evil bastard no matter what he says or does.

[ozzymandus]

Obama will be gone in three months, and now they’re “concerned”, after 8 years of his anti-Americanism? Bull.

[ETL]

From a 2007 article titled "Putin's Russia"...

" KGB influence 'soars under Putin,' " blared the headline of a BBC online article for December 13, 2006. The following day, a similar headline echoed a similarly alarming story at the website of Der Spiegel, one of Germany's largest news magazines: "Putin's Russia: Kremlin Riddled with Former KGB Agents."

In the opening sentences of Der Spiegel's article, readers are informed that: "Four out of five members of Russia's political and business elite have a KGB past, according to a new study by the prestigious [Russian] Academy of Sciences. The influence of ex-Soviet spies has ballooned under President Vladimir Putin."

The study, which looked at 1,061 top Kremlin, regional, and corporate jobs, found that "78 percent of the Russian elite" are what are known in Russia as "siloviki," which is to say, former members of the KGB or its domestic successor, the FSB. The author of the study, Olga Kryshtanovskaya, expressed shock at her own findings. "I was very shocked when I looked at the boards of major companies and realized there were lots of people who had completely unknown names, people who were not public but who were definitely, obvious siloviki," she told Reuters.

Other supposed experts - in Russia and the West - have also expressed surprise and alarm at the apparent resurrection of the dreaded Soviet secret police. After all, for the past decade and a half these same experts have been pointing to the alleged demise of the KGB as the primary evidence supporting their claim that communism is dead.

From the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, the Russian security apparatus Cheka (and its later permutations: OGPU, NKVD, MGB, KGB) had been the "sword and shield" of the communist world revolution.

"We stand for organized terror," declared Felix Dzerzhinsky, the first chief of the Cheka for Soviet dictator Vladimir Lenin. In 1918, Dzerzhinsky launched the campaign of arrests and executions known as the Red Terror. Krasnaya Gazeta, the Bolshevik newspaper, expressed the Chekist credo when it reported approvingly in 1918 of the terror campaign: "We will make our hearts cruel, hard and immovable, so that no mercy will enter them, and so that they will not quiver at the sight of a sea of enemy blood."

Unflinching cruelty and merciless, bloody terror have been the trademark of the communist secret police, from the Cheka to the KGB. Obviously, the demise of such an organization would be cause for much rejoicing. Hence, when the KGB was ordered dissolved and its chairman, General Vladimir Kryuchkov, was arrested in 1991 after attempting to overthrow "liberal reformer" Mikhail Gorbachev in the failed "August Coup," many people in the West were only too willing to pop the champagne corks and start celebrating our supposed victory over the Evil Empire.

But, as Mikhail Leontiyev, commentator for Russia's state-controlled Channel One television, recently noted, repeating a phrase popular among the siloviki: "Americans got so drunk at the USSR's funeral that they're still hung over." And stumbling around in their post-inebriation haze, many of these Americans have only recently begun noticing that they had prematurely written the KGB's epitaph, even as it was arising vampire-like from the coffin.

However, there is really no excuse for Olga Kryshtanovskaya or any of her American counterparts to be stunned by the current siloviki dominance in Putin's Russia. For nearly a decade, even before he became Russia's "president," THE NEW AMERICAN has been reporting on Putin's KGB pedigree and his steady implementation of a long-range Soviet deception strategy, including the public rehabilitation and refortifying of the KGB-FSB. ..."

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http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/8420-putins-russia

[ETL]

"For 16 years Putin was an officer in the KGB, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel before he retired to enter politics in his native Saint Petersburg in 1991.

He moved to Moscow in 1996 and joined President Boris Yeltsin's administration where he rose quickly, becoming Acting President on 31 December 1999 when Yeltsin unexpectedly resigned. Putin won the subsequent 2000 presidential election, despite widespread accusations of vote-rigging,[3] and was reelected in 2004."

"On 25 July 1998, Yeltsin appointed Vladimir Putin head of the FSB (one of the successor agencies to the KGB), the position Putin occupied until August 1999. He became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation on 1 October 1998 and its Secretary on 29 March 1999."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin

[ETL]

Sept 2016!!

Russia 'to revive the KGB' after Putin wins biggest majority

Telegraph (UK) ^ | 19 September 2016 • 3:39PM | Marc Bennetts

Russia plans effectively to revive the KGB under a massive shake-up of its security forces, a respected business daily has reported.

A State Security Ministry, or MGB, would be created from the current Federal Security Service (FSB) , and would incorporate the foreign intelligence service (SVR) and the state guard service (FSO), under the plans. It would be handed all-encompassing powers once possessed by the KGB, the Kommersant newspaper said, citing security service sources.

Like the much-feared KGB, it would also oversee the prosecutions of Kremlin critics, a task currently undertaken by the Investigative Committee, headed by Alexander Bastrykin, a former university classmate of President Putin. The Kremlin has not commented. …

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...

[Psalm 144]

“You are fully on-board with that evil bastard no matter what he says or does.”

Oh ETL. You are such a compliant ‘mouthpiece’ for Obama/Kerry foreign policy. It’s cute in a sickly kind of way.

[ETL]

Cute?? Are you a guy or a girl? Seriously.

[Psalm 144]

“Cute?? Are you a guy or a girl? Seriously.”

Why are you asking me this, ETL? Are you lonely? A true believer burning blue in the monitor’s light? Not one of the boiler room NWO team?

[ETL]

You sound queer sometimes, that’s all.

[x]

Obama's a lame duck. More interested in golf than governing.

But even earlier he wasn't much of a tough guy in world affairs. He's not one to go head to head against Putin.

[ETL]

Obama and Putin basically have the same world vision: Weak America, strong America’s enemies