I'm sure that just terrifies the Russians, right?? I mean, what is coming next? "Bible-thumping, gun-toting, redneck racist Russians"???
I especially liked this line: "The United States on Monday unveiled a slew of sanctions against seven Russians in President Vladimir Putin's inner circle and warned of further moves."
They forgot to add the word "meaningless" in front of "sanctions".
Yes, to liberal globalists like Kerry, being a “Nationalist” is the worst possible sin you can commit.
lets not get carried away just yet.
Kerry is an idiot, but I can't believe he doesn't know the difference between jibe and jive. This is probably a misquote by an ignorant reporter.
Fiddlesticks.
Now Kerry pretends to know Russia history better than Vladimir Putin?
6 months ago, Skerry couldn’t find Ukraine on the map, even with 20X focals.
If Kerry wants to guarantee the start of WWW III, all he has to do is convince NATO to make Ukraine a member.
I heard the repeat of “wrong side of history” on the radio earlier today. They seem hell-bent on wearing that phrase as thin as a strand of spider silk.
“are on the wrong side of history.”
There it as again. These people really have a Christ complex. They really believe their own propaganda.
History has to occur before the wrong side is known.
That is meaningless rhetoric too. Kerry might as well be speaking authentic frontier gibberish.
Well the basic problem is the us/soros/eu-German meddling these last few years made Russia very nervous. Russia will not accept a western takeover of Ukraine, no matter how it might be packaged, especially if the door were open to any western military entering. Right or wrong. The second problem Is, of course, that the current regime in Wash DC has less than Zero credibility. So while a Reagan or maybe a Truman or an Eisenhower could have maybe done something positive , that’s impossible when all the involved parties just laugh at youknowwho.
If Kerry found a Tea Party in Russia THEN there would be trouble. In the meantime nobody cares what this potato faced horseman and his half white bastard man child master thinks. When your sanctions amount to “I’m going to inconvenience a dozen Russians” is all you got you deserve to be laughed at.
What part of the following history is Russia on the wrong side of?
Perhaps Kerry should read up on his history before making ignorant statements. It seems to me that there are many relevant factors and Russian interests in Crimea on the "right" side of history.
1783: Russia annexed Crimea.
1853: The Crimean War began, lasting three years. Russia lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain and Sardinia. Crimea remained part of Russia.
1917: Crimea briefly became a sovereign state before becoming a base for the White Army of anti-Bolshevik forces in the Russian War.
1921: The peninsula, now called the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, became part of the Soviet Union.
1942: Nazi Germany took control of Crimea.
1944: Joesph Stalin forcibly deported all Muslim Tatars, a group of 300,000 who had lived on the peninsula for centuries, due to members’ alleged cooperation with Germany during World War II. Many returned to Crimea in the 1980s and 1990s.
1945: After World War II, the autonomous Soviet republic was dissolved and Crimea became a province of the Soviet Union called the Crimean Oblast.
1954: Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev transferred the Crimean Oblast to Ukraine. It’s often reported that it was a gesture of goodwill from Khrushchev, who had Ukrainian roots.
1991: The Soviet Union collapsed. Many expected President Boris Yeltsin, the new president of the Russian Federation, to take Crimea for Russia. But he didn’t bring it up during negotiations with Ukraine.
1997: Ukraine and Russia signed a treaty that allowed Russia to keep its fleet in Sevastopol. The agreement’s since been extended, so the fleet is set to remain there until at least 2042.
John Kerry, liar extraordinaire and long one of the Peter Principle's many shining stars in GuvCo, has somehow managed to rise far beyond his level of incompetence into uncharted territory.
Homer dreams of a cabinet postion with Obozo Liar!
If Crimean ‘fervor’ is like WWII build-up, who’s playing the part of Neville Chamberlain?