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 wont 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 wont 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 "Its a pity that the current U.S. administration is finishing their work in such a manner" saying that Russia refuses "
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Whilst Obama attempts to provoke nuclear war Putin gives him the scorn and mockery he deserves .
Putin doesn’t want war, nor does the average Russian or American man. We want to exist in peace, respectful of one another but firmly as sovereign nations.
Ask yourself why is Obama, Ryan and Mclame attempting to provoke war ? In whose interest are they operating ?
Obama has always been a coward. He would never start a conflict that he`d have to finish. That`s why he`s waited till the last month of his presidency to try and provoke a conflict that he could have started for the past eight years if he`d wanted to.
Think the guy who sneaks up from behind in a crowd and knocks someone`s hat off, then runs away. That`s obama, the coward. Agitators like Obama are, at their heart, cowards.
I’ll join the others: PERFECT!!!
USA and Russia are natural allies in support of Christian Western Civilization.
Conflict with Russia?? Who benefits??
Debt selling big foreign banks only win while everybody loses.
All Wars are Bankers Wars!
I don’t think there are any Russians
And there ain’t no Yanks.
Just corporate criminals
Playing with tanks.
The Call - The Walls Came Down
Classic!
It is good that Russia is killing jihadis and pushing Christianity, among other things.
But like I said, I respect Putin, I would work with Putin, but I wouldn’t trust Putin.
They are still a crucial ally of one of the worst terrorist nations on earth and supported the lifting of the sanctions against Iraq.
Trump should tell Putin to tell Iraq to STFU and the retaliatory measures against an Iran linked attack will be brutal.
Then leave it at that, and proceed to work with Putin against this ISIS trash.
Obama is like a child throwing snowballs on the playground. We have never seen a US President leave office this impotent.
*LOL*
Perfect. Putin isn’t going to give the infantile brats a chance to hog the limelight for another minute.
He knows that the adults will be in charge on January 20 2016.
And while I know that Trump will “go high” in his inaugural, a part of me wants to hear him get in a little dig at “0” just to see the look on the latter’s face, sitting there, out of office, irrelevant, forgotten.
Putin is most definitely NOT “a commie.”
Obama is the commie. Putin recognizes that the commies destroyed Russia.
He is an old-fashioned strong-arm Russian leader who wants to restore his country’s strength. Just like any leader who cares about his own nation would want to do.
And since we have far more to find agreement with Russian on than to disagree with, we need them as an ally against the Mohammedans’ war on civilization. Period.
The Mohammedan jihad (in all its forms, including immigration) against civilization is the ONLY international issue that counts. Anyone who is against it is our friend (Russia), and all those acquiexcing in it (our former Western “friends”) need to be cajoled, pressured and whipped to come on board...
Still freaks me out that I applaud Putin over the American President. Bizarro world.
The reason? Like all authoritarian rulers, Putin respects strength and despises weakness in foreign leaders. So does most of the rest of the world.
Hey Bath House - go back to playing golf. Let the real men work out the diplomacy.
That report was full of graphics but no proof, nothing like an IP address - maybe I missed it. If I'm the head of any intelligence agency would probably be kicking myself that didn't get into Hillary's server machine that hosted her email service, and hadn't fooled Podesta.
What they did do was expose some Russian Intelligence Acroynyms and intelligence organizations I wasn't familiar with - perhaps that was a some sort of signal.
They showed some server side php hack - okay if you use php you deserve all the grief that comes your way - its so dangerous and this is and has been known. It all was really pretty unconvincing to me but perhaps it looks good to the lay person.
Obama seems like he is trying to start a fight - he is up to something or running interference. Protests a little to much
When an 8 yr old brat has a tantrum the best thing to do is ignore him.
Putin further nailed the lid on when he invited all the children of American diplomats to the Kremlin for a New Year party.
I had not heard that.
Man, do we have a stupid leader.
Now Putin looks like the thoughtful grownup. Prudent and confident.
Obama turns to Samantha Powers and angrily says’”YOU told me I would come out of this looking like a Hero who saved the country! What the hell is going on here?!”
Agree. Paul Ryan is a sickening embarrassment.
I think CONNECT FOUR is what Obama thinks he’s playing.
It’s not even up to Checkers yet.
I’d like to see Sean Hannity refuse to have Ryan, Graham, or McCain on his show. (I know he wouldn’t do it but I wish he would)
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