Posted on 12/29/2016 1:02:01 PM PST by kindred
When a United States President reaches for the “red phone,” the reason behind the message MUST be worthy of such a communication.
Obama used the red phone to contact Vladimir Putin to demand Russia stop inserting itself into the 2016 presidential race– which they didn’t do! Apparently, unsupported claims of hacking into the Democrat Party emails was enough for Obama to call Putin on the emergency line which has always been reserved for far more important things, like discussions of acts of war.
At least one of Obama’s senior advisers urged him to pick up the red phone and call Vladimir Putin, NBC News reports. Obama allegedly did not want to further inflame Russia so he used calming and less specific language when “warning” Putin about the consequences he would levy if the hacking and interference did not stop.
The red phone was part of the Cold War communication system with Russia. It directly connects Washington, D.C. with Moscow. Obama could have used a regular Oval Office land line to call Putin, but he was apparently trying to make a statement when opting instead for the emergency line.
During the conversation Barack Obama reportedly even used the phrase, “armed conflict” when warning Vladimir Putin to stop hacking emails of Democrat elites and members of Hillary Clinton’s senior campaign staff. During the G20 Summit in September, Obama also reportedly warned the Russian leader to steer clear of the 2016 presidential election.
“International law, including the law for armed conflict, applies to actions in cyberspace,” part of Obama’s message sent over the Red Phone on October 31, said, according to a senior administration official. “We will hold Russia to those standards.”
The red phone system was created to communicate between the two nations during a moment of crisis, such as the September 11, terror attacks. It is not a real phone but instead began as a teletype more than five decades ago. It has since been converted into a fax machine and now an email transmitter link through the two nation’s Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers.
Obama’s administration added a specific line that is intended to deal with cyber threats, which is the line Obama used for this communication. The releases of the hacked Democrat Party emails continued after this. Either Russia was not behind it, or Putin simply didn’t find Obama all that intimidating.
“It’s a dramatic step to pick that ‘phone’ up and use it,” Retired Admiral James Stavridis, the former head of NATO, said. Obama has never used the red phone system to contact Vladimir Putin before.
Whining chants of “Russia hacked our election” are vastly misleading the uninformed members of the American public. When asked about exactly what Russia did, the vast majority of Liberals and their millennial snowflake offspring can’t respond with any specifics, just that the Russians “hacked” our “election.” In reality, the DNC and Podesta’s email were leaked.
The phrase now commonly used by Liberal political elites and their cohorts in the mainstream media who make it sound as if Putin’s KGB goons pilfered with election results, committed voter fraud, or secreted away cast ballots. All the leakers, whomever they were, did to impact the election was to reveal the nasty insults and bias at play inside the Democrat Party and the Clinton campaign.
This won't start a "WAR", nor will Marital Law be enforced; there isn't a reason fro Putin to strike back, since he knows that Trump will be president in a few short weeks and no matter WHAT he imagines, it's not "easy" to declare Marital Law, out of hand.
And the lefties keep saying that Trump is going to start WW III ? LOL
SPOT ON!
Pizza deliveries ARE faster when using the red phone. (Or did Obama change the color to pink?)
Putin just Won in Syria!
Obunghole is still trying to win Mosul!
The idiot though via his leadership and his limp wrist-ed general(disaster)s he’d have that done by the 2016 elections!
Thank God we’ll get a real man in the WH instead of the Tranny currently occupying it!
I hope if bronco bama gets antsy with the big guns that saner people on the scene will intervene.
It bears repeating that John Podesta’s gmail password
was “P@ssword”.
It does not take the KGB’s best and brightest to break into THAT one.
This close to the end of his time shows IMO that Obama is very mentally ill and unstable.
If he gets too cute, AF1 could just leave him in Hawaii with a detail until Jan 20, then cut that detail down to three guys.
Obama is going to miss his Powers of Global Insanity
“...He will do something nefarious very soon.....”
It bears repeating: the whole U.S. Military complex should be immediately removed from this evil, insane POS’s control, especially the launch codes. Turn it over to Trump before this nut goes too far and gets us all killed.
The caption is news, not breaking news. And this is about news I did not know, did you? No wonder Russia wanted Trump to win as Hitlery would have started a war per her masters request. The left is very, very sick. And the dem-rino know it.
I betcha when Putin was told Obama is on the red phone, he laughed himself silly...
He’s evil, pure and simple.
Russia hacked our election and sees UFO’s checks basement for pods samples nose candy............
Here’s hoping the Pentagon has a Plan B in case that jugeared traitor starts petting the football . . .
[it’s not “easy” to declare Marital Law, out of hand.]
True, but two things come to mind. One, the left is not interested in law. Two, Obama is not interested in law either.
Obama is mentally unstable.
Obama has been trying to provoke wars with Russia and etc. for years. Fortunately, Putin knows we have an enemy agent in our White House When history’s written, Putin will have to be given a lot of credit for keeping the world out of another big ugly war. Despite all his negatives. He’s refused to take obsma’s war bait and he knows relations will be better, at least less threatening and dangerous -— very soon.
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