Posted on 12/30/2016 5:13:16 AM PST by House Atreides
Vladimir the merciful?
Following this morning's reports that Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov would recommend to Russian President Vladimir Putin a retaliation in kind, and expel 35 American diplomats, saying that “we cannot leave such acts unanswered. Reciprocity is part of diplomatic law" with Putin spokesman Peskov adding that "there is no doubt that Russia's adequate and mirror response will make Washington officials feel very uncomfortable as well", it was ultimately up to Putin to decide how to respond to the US.
Which he did on Friday morning, when in a stunning reversal, the Russian leader took the high road, and in a Kremlin statement said that, contrary to expectations, Russia won’t expel any Americans in retaliation to US moves, in a brutal demonstration of just how irrelevant Obama's 11th hour decision is for US-Russian relations.
In the statement Putin said that Russia won’t cause problems to U.S. diplomats or deport anyone, adding that Russia has the right to respond in tit-for-tat manner, but it will not engage in irresponsible diplomacy.
The punchline, however, was saved for what may be Russia's final slam of the debacle that is Obama's administration saying that "It’s a pity that the current U.S. administration is finishing their work in such a manner" saying that Russia refuses "
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Maybe Trump’s response is inviting Russian embassy children to A new years party at Trump tower.
I think Vlad just called O'bummer an angry housewife.
Nothing wrong with being critical of Putin, but to say that FReepers are idolizing him is a ridiculous statement.
You can show someone respect but at the same time have little or no trust in them.
Adult move. The Child-In-Chief in the White House looks even more petulant now.
Wow. There was always the possibility that Obama was the Russian Manchurian Candidate. Now we know he is not. Perhaps he was for the old Soviet Union Communists, but not the Russian Federalists.
Obama plays checkers while Putin is playing 3d Chess, from the Star Trek series. Mr. Spock was very good at it.
The UK will be his next target. He is lashing out at potential US allies that together could form an alliance against extremist Islam and his Globalist backers.
Curious, how are the talking heads reacting to this? I think they need to tell me a bit more how this is war posturing...
LMAO!!! This is giving obama the middle finger w/o lifting a hand!!
I think Ryan is going to get his a** kicked really, really soon.
“Have the readers of FR lost their collective minds?”
Well, we’ve had a President who was head of our CIA. What did Bush do before he took office as head of the CIA. He says he wasn’t an agent, but his name popped up in the Kennedy assassination papers. I think he was an agent during that time. At the least, Bush Sr. seems to be who was behind the Iran Contra affair while Vice President. And may have turned a blind eye to the drug dealing of Clinton as part of that deal. He sure treats Clinton as another son.
We had President Clinton who may have been responsible for a lot of deaths, got away with treason with giving secrets to the Chinese, whose wife while SOS, sold out the country to foreign leaders for their pot of gold.
We now have a president who is at the least an ISIS extremist sympathizer and probably an outright believer. He only seems to care about Muslims, not any one else. Certainly not the blacks in this country being destroyed by the Dem party. He started the Arab Spring to further the Muslim brotherhood and helped arm ISIS to cause the Middle East to explode and now wants to bring in as many terrorists as he can before he leaves office.
Another person agreeing with Obama is McCain. It is now known for sure that he made propaganda tapes for North Vietnam and turned his back on POWs. The USS Forrestal incident was never proved to be his mistake, but it seems very likely. I’m sure I would not have been able to resist torture for very long, but no way would I have come back and let people call me a hero.
Sorry if we can’t get all excited about Putin’s past, which we don’t really know except he was KGB. No one is planning to make Putin our best friend, but he is a pragmatist and we think relations with Russia can definitely improve under Trump and Putin to the betterment of both countries.
Do you agree with Obama’s moves against Russia these past few days?
Do you believe that Russia was behind the so-called “election hacking”?
If so, considering that fact that Obama is a pathological liar and quite frankly bordering on psychotic, do you not think that he should show some PROOF of the alleged Russian hacking?
Pointing out (the truth) that the Russian President is making ours look like a child having a temper tantrum isn’t “idolizing” him.
I don’t trust Vlad even remotely, but there’s nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade.
Massive Trump/Putin win against the Muslim Mulatto Messiah! Well played!
>>Obama playing checkers while Putin plays chess.
More like Putin playing chess while Obama just puts the checkers in his mouth like a toddler.
Brack poked the bear. WHY? The 'lie' being spewed by all the DNC advertising wing (mass media) is Podesta's emails were 'hacked'... There is NOT one shred of evidence presented that Russia hacked Podesta's email account. The 'leakers' specifically Julian Assange, said these emails were 'leaked' from the inside of the DNC business.
What has NOT been made public is Hillry's bleached 30 + thousand emails found on Weiner's laptop. Supposedly, Congress was given its own download... As soon as Weiner's laptop was seized, Hillry started making claims the Russians were hacking for Trump.
Meanwhile, yesterday, there was a story posted that ol bj and Hillry Clinton were in negotiations for 'secret' pardons.
The last thing the Clintons want to happen, is to have those 'bleached' emails made public. IF they really believe the Russians have them, they would NOT have 'scapegoated' Putin over leaked Podesta emails.
This is presently about controlling what that mass media spews. "Putin got Trump" elected. A bald faced lie.
Yep, by refusing to react he shows that he no longer recognizes Obama’s authority.
Putin is outclassing Obama at every turn. He’s exposing Obama as the petulant child that he really is.
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