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Obama Officials Wonder: Why Won’t the Boss Stand Up to Putin?
Daily Beast ^ | September 29, 2016 | Nancy A. Youssef and Shane Harris

Posted on 09/29/2016 9:04:10 AM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: kgbputin; obama; putin; putinbuttkisser; putinista; syria
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To: ETL

“You sound queer sometimes, that’s all.”

Well, you sound stupid all the time so maybe we should pray for one another.

I love you, man.


61 posted on 09/29/2016 4:38:27 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (One party feigns virtue, the other flaunts its corruption. May God reward both as they deserve.)
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To: Psalm 144

You are the one that is stupid, or simply nuts, having such a hard-on for an evil SOB like Putin. Something is obviously wrong with you.


62 posted on 09/29/2016 4:48:22 PM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: Psalm 144
Could this be why you have such a man crush on KGB...

"He seemed to me very independent, very serious, but at the same time a boy is always vulnerable. He was very sweet. I’ll be honest: I felt an urge to squeeze him like a kitten..." —Russian president Vladimir Putin, sounding like Michael Jackson


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 photo Putin Paedophile kissing boys stomach comp 02_zps6oh1kjhk.jpg

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"In the footage, Putin, 53, is shown walking up to a small crowd of tourists in a Kremlin courtyard and crouching down in front of the boy, who appears to be five or six years old. As the Russian president talks with Nikita for several seconds, he tugs at the boy's shirt before finally lifting it up and kissing him on his bare stomach.

"He seemed to me very independent, very serious, but at the same time a boy is always vulnerable. He was very sweet. I'll be honest: I felt an urge to squeeze him like a kitten, and that led to the gesture that I made. There was nothing behind it really," Putin said, smiling.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/putin-explains-tummy-kiss/

63 posted on 09/29/2016 4:56:56 PM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: ETL

“You are the one that is stupid, or simply nuts, having such a hard-on for an evil SOB like Putin. Something is obviously wrong with you.”

You need to accentuate the positive, ETL. Here we are, one the same side of the barricades, ready to vote for Donald J. Trump. Shoulder to shoulder.

Ain’t life grand?


64 posted on 09/29/2016 4:59:33 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (One party feigns virtue, the other flaunts its corruption. May God reward both as they deserve.)
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To: Psalm 144

I wouldn’t get within 100 feet of you if I could help it.


65 posted on 09/29/2016 5:11:26 PM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: ETL
....”It has everything to do with the sort of Russia that Putin seeks to build, or restore”......

Well he certainly has a right to build it the way he wants since he is the Leader of Russia...just as Trump wants to re-build ours to the super power it once was.......and Just like Trump wants to protect our people and borders so too is Putin with his.........that's what ‘nationalists’ do.

With the exception of Crimea, which was of course Krushefs blunder in handing it over to Ukraine as a gift he had no business doing, I don't see any indication Putins done anything more than protect his borders and areas of influence just as we do..or should......

Putin's a seasoned leader now, that cannot be denied. Obama isn't nor can he be because his interests have never been for this nations interests but for the global agenda of what our country should be on the world stage. Putin knows that.

Look....everyone knows who Putin is “today” and about for the most part. Obama’s been so jealous of the man and the Chinese throughout his time in office that both are taking advantage of the gap he's left to carry on......remember it's Obama that put sanctions on Russia by leveraging with Poland,the Baltic states and others, to give them what they wanted if they yelled Putins coming after us....especially since Germany refused to do what they wanted.

Breedlove and the old war horses with him, like McCain and the likes of, created more issues and problems that could have been otherwise settled had they not been on Obama’s propaganda wheel of fortune. Our own Military Generals said as much....and that's a fact.

66 posted on 09/29/2016 5:32:15 PM PDT by caww
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To: Psalm 144

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

It’s that very mindset our military Leaders have been saying all along create such havoc and are part of the problem rather than helping with a solution. As if people don’t have a clear understanding about Putin, which most do, they will never see there’s solutions to world problems other than sanctions, interferring in conflicts, and war.


67 posted on 09/29/2016 5:35:32 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww
Look....everyone knows who Putin is “today” and about for the most part. Obama’s been so jealous of the man

Yeah, Obama was very fond of the murderous communist Soviet Union himself growing up. In fact, his mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, actually wrote poems glorifying the Red Army.

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Barack Obama's Marxist Mentor

[Frank Marshall Davis]
By Trevor Loudon, NewZeal.Blogspot.com, March 29, 2007
https://web.archive.org/web/20080227233558/http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2007/03/barack-obamas-marxist-mentor.html
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Barack Obama, from Dreams from My Father, Three Rivers Press, New York, Revised Edition, 2004, ISBN 1-4000-8277-3, p. 76-7:
"But by the time I met Frank [Frank Marshall Davis] he must have been pushing eighty, with a big, dewlapped face and an ill-kempt gray Afro that made him look like an old, shaggy-maned lion. He would read us his poetry whenever we stopped by his house, sharing whiskey with Gramps out of an emptied jelly jar."
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Frank Marshall Davis

From Accuracy In Media | AIM.ORG

Obama's Red Mentor Praised Red Army
AIM Report | By Cliff Kincaid | April 30, 2008

Barack Obama's childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA (CPUSA), wrote a poem dedicated to the Soviet Red Army. "Smash on, victory-eating Red Army," he declared. He also wrote poems attacking traditional Christianity and the work of Christian missionaries.

The "Red Army" poem goes beyond hoping for the communists to beat the Nazis in World War II and hails the Soviet revolution. It says:

Show the marveling multitudes
Americans, British, all your allied brothers
How strong you are
How great you are
How your young tree of new unity
Planted twenty-five years ago
Bears today the golden fruit of victory!

http://www.aim.org/aim-report/obamas-red-mentor-praised-red-army/
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Obama's Communist Mentor
AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid | February 18, 2008

excerpt...

"through Frank Marshall Davis, Obama had an admitted relationship with someone who was publicly identified as a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where, at some point in time, he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis, listening to his 'poetry' and getting advice on his career path. But Obama, in his book, Dreams From My Father, refers to him repeatedly as just 'Frank.'

The reason is apparent: Davis was a known communist who belonged to a party subservient to the Soviet Union. In fact, the 1951 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii identified him as a CPUSA member. What's more, anti-communist congressional committees, including the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), accused Davis of involvement in several communist-front organizations."

Frank Chapman, a CPUSA supporter, has written a letter to the party newspaper hailing the Illinois senator's victory in the Iowa caucuses:

" Obama's victory was more than a progressive move; it was a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of struggle. Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary 'mole,' not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through."

-People's Weekly World (PWW), official newspaper of the Communist Party, USA:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080319135307/http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/12302/1/405

In addition to the linked AIM article, you can also find reference to it here:
http://www.wnd.com/2008/11/79877/

AIM article: Obama’s Communist Mentor
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/
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JOHN DREW

Obama Espoused Radical [Communist revolutionary] Views in College

Steve Malzberg - WOR News Talk Radio 710 ^ | February 12, 2010 | Ronald Kessler

Dr. John C. Drew, a grant writing consultant in Laguna Niguel, Calif., tells Newsmax he met Obama in 1980 when Obama was a sophomore at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Drew had just graduated from Occidental and was attending graduate school at Cornell University.

During Christmas break, Drew says he was at Grauman-Boss’ home in Palo Alto when Obama came over with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, his roommate from Pakistan.

“Barack [Obama] and Hasan showed up at the house in a BMW, and then we went to a restaurant together,” Drew says. “We had a nice meal, and then we came back to the house and smoked cigarettes and drank and argued politics.”

For the next several hours, they discussed Marxism.

He [Obama] was arguing a straightforward Marxist-Leninist class-struggle point of view, which anticipated that there would be a revolution of the working class, led by revolutionaries, who would overthrow the capitalist system and institute a new socialist government that would redistribute the wealth,” says Drew, who says he himself was then a Marxist.

The idea was basically that wealthy people were exploiting others,” Drew says. “That this was the secret of their wealth, that they weren’t paying others enough for their work, and they were using and taking advantage of other people. He was convinced that a revolution would take place, and it would be a good thing.”

Drew concluded that Obama thought of himself as “part of an intelligent, radical vanguard that was leading the way towards this revolution and towards this new society.” ..."

Referring to Obama’s quote from “Dreams of My Father” that he associated with Marxist professors, Drew says, “What he’s not saying is that he was in 100 percent total agreement with those Marxist professors. When you understand that, Obama’s later associations and policies make more sense, including why he was taken in by Rev. Wright’s ideology.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20100214061745/http://www.wor710.com/pages/6350883

68 posted on 09/29/2016 5:41:06 PM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: ETL
This is 20016 ETL.....Even so Of course Putin took in Former “trusted” KGB into his administration in order to consolidate his administration and form it the way he wanted to........look what he was up against with the former Oligarchy thugs who all but destroyed Russia's citizen's and the infrastructure of Russia for their own selfish gain .

You may hate Putin....and see him no different than the Oligarchs before him...but he has changed the lifestyles of the Citizens and their communities for the good... and they know it....and despite all Putins warts they do for the most part love him.

69 posted on 09/29/2016 5:41:11 PM PDT by caww
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To: ETL

Please save the band width of the ‘old’ articles your’re posting to me...I’m quite aware of the history.


70 posted on 09/29/2016 5:43:38 PM PDT by caww
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To: ETL

Shows how much you don’t know of Russian culture....


71 posted on 09/29/2016 5:44:26 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww
This is 2016 ETL..

Tell that to your boy KGB Putin. He's the one who wants to restore the evil empire, or something not too much different from it. He's the one who thinks the *collapse* of the Soviet Union was the worst thing that happened in the 20th Century. Who feels the mass murderer Stalin deserves statues in his honor. Who is currently in the process of bringing back the diabolical KGB. All of this is provided above, as if you didn't know.

72 posted on 09/29/2016 5:50:14 PM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: ETL

Oh for crying out loud.......that rumor was spread by Litvinenko, a major enemy of Putins who worked for the old Oligarch Boris Berezovsky....who wanted to be President of Russia...and just so you know the facts Litvinenko converted to Islam in Britain via friends he became acquainted with who were exiled Chechen separatist leaders.

The family of the boy was honored Putin had chosen their son to express “affection” to in this manner...and never took it for ore than what it was.....he’s an adult today and spoke about that rumor he learned was spread. He saw nothing more to it then and does not today.


73 posted on 09/29/2016 6:08:44 PM PDT by caww
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To: ETL

I guess you can’t see further than 1953 after all.


74 posted on 09/29/2016 6:09:49 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww
Oh for crying out loud.......that rumor was spread by [Alexander] Litvinenko, a major enemy of Putin's

How true. And we all know what happens to Putin's enemies...

 photo Blowing Up Russia cover 03 smaller_zps3oeckoag.jpg

Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB [Power]

Alexander Litvinenko & Yuri Felshtinsky

This book, co-authored by Alexander Litvinenko, the victim of the notorious 2006 London polonium poisoning, attempts to demonstrate that modern Russia's most fundamental problems do not result from the radical reforms of the liberal period of Yeltsin's terms as president, but from the open or clandestine resistance offered to these reforms by the Russian special services. It was they who unleashed the first and second Chechen wars, in order to divert Russia away from the path of democracy and towards dictatorship, militarism, and chauvinism.

The authors alleged that the Russian apartment bombings and other September 1999 terrorist acts were committed by the Federal Security Service. Litvinenko and Felshtinsky wrote that the bombings were a false flag operation intended to justify Second Chechen War and bring Vladimir Putin to power.

Originally published in 2002
(223 pages)

https://web.archive.org/web/20150925030919/http://www.libertypublishinghouse.com/Blowing_up_Russia_E.aspx
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Putin's Poison?
by Peter Brookes, November 27, 2006

The death of former Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko, last week from radioactive Polonium-210 poisoning is the latest in a series of politically motivated attacks on the outspoken opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed112706a.cfm

Or,

https://web.archive.org/web/20070116123048/http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed112706a.cfm


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"Over the next six years, Litvinenko became an anti-Kremlin journalist, accusing the Russian government of abuses during their battles with Chechen separatists in the 1990s, and the FSB's alleged 1999 bombing of 300 people in explosions at apartments in Russia that was used to justify its second war against Chechnya.

He also claimed two of the Chechen separatists who took hostages at a theater in Moscow in October 2002 during which 162 people died were working for the FSB. He also pointed the finger at the FSB for having trained al Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri."

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/237045/long-awaited-investigation-alexander-v-litvinenkos-arnold-ahlert

Or,

https://web.archive.org/web/20150924180509/http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/237045/long-awaited-investigation-alexander-v-litvinenkos-arnold-ahlert
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Litvinenko: A deadly trail of polonium [poisoned by Putin?...case now concluding]
BBC - Magazine ^ | July 28, 2015

"The polonium trail started on 16 October 2006 when Litvinenko met Lugovoi and Kovtun in London. ..."

"When Lugovoi and Kovtun's movements were mapped against the sites of polonium contamination, there was an exact match. The evidence of guilt was strong. In May 2007, the then Director of Public Prosecutions Ken Macdonald announced that Andrei Lugovoi was to be charged with murder and his extradition would be sought from Russia. Kovtun was charged in 2010. ..."

Prof Norman Dombey, a physicist who has a deep knowledge of Russian nuclear sites, gave evidence at the public inquiry.

Dombey says there is only one place where it can be produced in the quantities used in the murder - a military nuclear reactor at the Avangard plant in the closed city of Sarov. Sarov was where Russia produced its first nuclear bomb in the days of Joseph Stalin. This is a clear link to the Russian state.

But why would the Russian state want him dead? ..."

It is clear that Alexander Litvinenko had powerful enemies in Russia. ..."

The first red line concerns a book he co-wrote called Blowing Up Russia about a terrorist attack in Moscow in September 1999. Chechen separatists were blamed.

"Litvinenko claimed that Russia's own security services carried out the attack to give Putin the cover to launch a new Chechen war. Some 300 people had died. ..."

His co-author, Felshtinsky, stands by their conclusions and says: "This [attack] helped Putin...the reaction of the population was we now have to have a strong leader. ..."

The inquiry will now hear secret evidence from intelligence agencies in special closed sessions. It will report back at the end of the year and, until then, the mystery will rumble on."

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...

Or,

https://web.archive.org/web/20150809080905/http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33678717
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BBC, 27 July 2015

Litvinenko inquiry: Key suspect 'cannot testify'

"UK officials believe Dmitry Kovtun and another man, Andrei Lugovoi, poisoned Mr Litvinenko in 2006, which they deny.

Mr Kovtun had been due to appear by videolink from Moscow on Monday, but said he had been unable to get permission from Russian authorities.

Mr Litvinenko's family lawyer said it seemed the case was being manipulated."

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33674469

Or,

https://web.archive.org/web/20160603104658/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33674469
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Jan 21 2016...

Vladimir Putin Likely Approved Murder of Alexander Litvinenko: Inquiry

by Alastair Jamieson and Alexey Eremenko

LONDON - Russian President Vladimir Putin "probably" personally sanctioned the nuclear murder of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, a British judge ruled Thursday.

The dissident died in 2006 after drinking green tea poisoned with radioactive polonium-210 in a London hotel. Litvinenko had predicted that Russia would assassinate him and claimed on his deathbed that Putin likely ordered his killing.

After a six-month public inquiry, a British judge ruled that the one-time KGB agent was murdered on the orders of Russia's FSB security agency - and that the action was "probably approved" by Putin. ..."

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/vladimir-putin-likely-approved-murder-alexander-litvinenko-inquiry-n500996

Or,

https://web.archive.org/web/20160205154202/http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/vladimir-putin-likely-approved-murder-alexander-litvinenko-inquiry-n500996

75 posted on 09/29/2016 6:23:43 PM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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76 posted on 09/29/2016 6:26:07 PM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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77 posted on 09/29/2016 6:26:52 PM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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From 2014

Yushchenko, hero of Ukraine's Orange Revolution warns Europe that Putin won't stop at Crimea

by Matthew Schofield - McClatchy Foreign Staff
March 27, 2014

Many Ukrainians believe you need look no further than the face of Viktor Yushchenko to understand Russia's aggression against Ukraine.

Once smooth and ruggedly handsome, it still bears the scars from an assassination attempt when someone slipped dioxin into Yushchenko's food. ..."

Read more here:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article24765781.html#storylink=cpy
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Russia Deploying Tactical Nuclear Arms in Crimea

Obama backing indirect talks with Moscow aimed at cutting U.S. non-strategic nukes in Europe

BY: Bill Gertz
October 10, 2014

Russia is moving tactical nuclear weapons systems into recently-annexed Crimea while the Obama administration is backing informal talks aimed at cutting U.S. tactical nuclear deployments in Europe. ..."

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russia-deploying-tactical-nuclear-arms-in-crimea/

78 posted on 09/29/2016 6:27:48 PM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: ETL

Obama was caught on camera saying he will get his election over with and then do Russia’s bidding. That is not surprising considering Obama’s communist upbringing.


79 posted on 09/30/2016 2:34:58 AM PDT by Krosan
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To: Krosan

>>Obama was caught on camera saying he will get his
>>election over with and then do Russia’s bidding.

Yes, I included that at the end of my post #32
(his being “flexible” on missile defense, etc)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3474882/posts?page=32#32


80 posted on 09/30/2016 4:28:09 AM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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