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 didnt 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 Obamas 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 Clintons 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 Obamas 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 nations Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers.
Obamas 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 didnt find Obama all that intimidating.
Its 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 cant respond with any specifics, just that the Russians hacked our election. In reality, the DNC and Podestas 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 Putins 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 country may not even reach inauguration day 2017.
I heard a dozen times said that no Barack Hussein Obama would become the present. They said it couldn’t happen here Red, but it did, twice.
Wonder where this info actually came from.
But I have seen the red phone(s). When I was in the chef apprenticeship program at the Century Plaza Hotel in LA (as it was called then), we brought items up to the refrigerator of the Presidential Suite for President Reagan before he arrived. Since we were already completely cleared by security and the dogs were around, we were able to walk through his suite. There were two actual red phones. One was on the coffee table of the “living room” and one was in the master bedroom. I was shocked because I had assumed the term “red phone” was just a term for a special phone. I didn’t realize they were actual red phones. Kind of cool.
What, NBC actually reported this? I am shocked, shocked I tell you.
The only thing Obama is going to make is noise. And everyone is ignoringbeven that.
[Homosexual drama queens are dangerous.]
So very true, they have a high lying rate if the truth be told.
Sheesh, that’s like calling 911 because your pizza is late.
This comment is general and deals with the typical responses I see when discussion of Russia and Putin comes up.
What amazes me is that in 2016 we still have people, largely conservative, who refer to Russia as the Soviet Union and talk about KGB. I wonder if this is intentional or just low IQ? The Soviet Union and the KGB disbanded in 1991. I can’t recall any instances of someone in 1970 referring to Germany as the Third Reich, Nazi Germany, or Gestapo. Perhaps it’s due to a lot of older guys wanting to justify their life’s work and obsession? Amazing Cold War dinosaurs still obsessed with white Christian Russians as Sharia patrols are being set up in their cities.
Txhur1
Three guy and no plane
You said it. In the future Putin will be given credit for not taking the bait of the game Obama et al are playing. Despite his own bad deeds, he is preventing thousands of deaths by holding steady. What the hell would have happened to the world had Clinton won?
Thanks for that little frisson of fear.
It sounds like AgitProp to me.
Psychopath. Narcissist. Lunatic. Hater. Self-loather. You name it. This is one sick puppy. No wonder his “parents” abandoned him and his formative years were spent being “reared” by a transvestite. LOL.
Or, as Putin once aptly put it, “like a monkey with a hand grenade.”
“One of the best ever movies.”
If you’re a cold war commie.
In the future, it will be seen as in the same class as “Triumph of the Will.”
Threatening war with Russia, privately.
Is that not high treason, considering that Congress has not been included in such an important decision that could have dire consequences for our national security and world peace?
Putin is an adult.
He knows that Obama is gone on January 20.
This juvenile prank will not lead to war.
Voting for someone is one thing, and has many variables involved, but promulgating a set of lies that would be unbelievable on their face, considering the actions required to execute them, just will not stand up under scrutiny, nor in the court or public opinion................
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