Posted on 02/06/2017 5:55:19 AM PST by Enlightened1
The Kremlin said on Monday it wanted an apology from Fox News over what it said were "unacceptable" comments one of the channel's presenters made about Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump.
Fox News host Bill O'Reilly described Putin as "a killer" in the interview with Trump as he tried to press the U.S. president to explain more fully why he respected his Russian counterpart. O'Reilly did not say who he thought Putin had killed.
"We consider such words from the Fox TV company to be unacceptable and insulting, and honestly speaking, we would prefer to get an apology from such a respected TV company," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call.
Fox News and O'Reilly did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Trump's views on Putin are closely scrutinized in the United States where U.S. intelligence agencies have accused Moscow of having sponsored computer hacking to help Trump win office, and critics say he is too complimentary about the Russian leader.
Trump, when commenting on the allegations against Putin in the same interview, questioned how "innocent" the United States itself was, saying it had made a lot of its own mistakes. That irritated some Congressional Republicans who said there was no comparison between how Russian and U.S. politicians behaved.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
But this is about red lines and who draws them where and who has the “ right” to do so and to defend them
Does Russia have the “ right” to draw red lines against the expansion of US interests into Ukraine and SYRIA? US Interests and rec lines that by coincidence accompany the existence of huge natural resources coveted for development by our corporations or by our allies aka financial benefactors - who heavily buy our politicians
U.S. interests are always couched in high moral terms such as supporting “ democracy” .. To gain popular support among Americans and our socialist friends up in Europe- but this moral claim .is becoming pretty cynical when we nurture groups like ISIS and the muslim brotherhood and tell the people being enslaved tortured and killed we are supporting democracy and when McCain and others stand on a stage or sit in conferences in Ukraine next to neo-Nazis looking to becoming part of the EU’s harem of failed states ... ... Or when Libya is bombed by NATO back to the 7 the century and the carcass of that nation is left to the barbarians to pick over while the Europeans and Chinese keep the oil fields pumping
The US has been ceding the moral high ground of its interventionist strategies for many years - certainly expedited the erosion under obama and other interventionists of both parties
Let's just get frank and admit we are in a global competition for natural resources and political influence thus stability to assure economic order and growth - nothing wrong with that - unless the means to pursue it are wasted resources spent on weapons of mass destruction, genocidal war and fomented chaos cloaked as a quest to spread democracy
Basically you want to blame Russia only
exactly
And of course Hillary had Gadaffi murdered -- sparking the out of control migrant flood into Europe.
KGB/FSB Putin has a LOT of blood on his hands: reporters, political opponents, former colleagues who've spilled the beans on him, leaders of former Soviet satellite states...
Yes! It’s quite hilarious in a hair raising sort of way. All of a sudden, the Left are strict constructionists. They believe in separation of powers. Wait, what?,
How flexible of them.
..a planeload of pax on the Malaysian airliner over Ukraine, or has everyone conveniently forgot that?
A Buk launch on a civil airliner would not have happened without clearance from on high.
Litvinenko was a convert to Islam after becoming so obsessed with the Chechen jihad. He poisoned himself (suicide) hoping to blame of Russian FSB. It's worked because neocons and their puppets in Fox News spout this BS almost constantly. He was linked with Emir Khattab and the Moscow apartment bombings in 1999 (he's the one who started the crazy story about Russian FSB doing this-- which you still hear neocons stating as if it's a fact). In fact he blamed all terrorist attacks on Russia. He was a total nutcase who claims Danish cartoons of Mohammed were actually orchestrated by Russian FSB. And he claimed Putin was a pedophile and drug user. I can go on and on but if you have researched this case and still can believe Litvinenko then you're a fully committed disingenuous Russophobe or a disingenuous Islamophile and don't care about facts. Oh, and btw, if you are the former you are in practice, by default, the latter. Though jot the other way around.
precisely
Sorry for all the grammar and autocorrects, I should’ve proofed.
Fixed it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clean_Break:_A_New_Strategy_for_Securing_the_Realm
Thanks!
KGB agents........it’s what they do.
Maybe she'd scratch his eyes out? Just kidding. Now I'm going to have to write an apology to the Fox News Kremlin. (not to be confused with the Reuters Kremlin)
Libs are liars.
“For the record the Russian Government was not called “The Kremlin” by the media when Obama was in office. It was called the Russian Government by the very same media, and it has been called that since the fall of the Soviet Union 25 years ago.”
Did you research your statement?
That’s a patently false statement, one can dredge up dozens if not hundreds of headlines where Kremlin was used pre-Trump.
http://www.ruaviation.com/news/2016/8/31/6693/
http://fortune.com/2014/12/09/kremlin-softens-tone-ahead-of-new-ukraine-peace-talks/
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/kremlin-has-hillary-emails/ 9 months ago and at Laura Ingraham’s lifezette website, why go on with this? Does she qualify as the media?
In part, and for real. We should never forget it. He and his crew are a bunch of killers.
We are too, in ways... but we typically don't murder news reporters. The Hildabeast simply pressures that they be fired...
Absolute BS.
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."
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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UPDATE: Jan 21 2016...
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. ..."
Or,
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