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Ukraine Defense Minister Won't Take Phone Call from Defense Sec Hagel
breitbart ^ | 2/21/14 | William Bigelow

Posted on 02/21/2014 9:39:34 AM PST by Nachum

Typifying the utterly ineffectual foreign policy that has been endemic for the entirety of the Obama administration, Ukrainian Defense Minister Pavel Lebedev rebuffed U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, refusing to take even one of the phone calls Hagel made to him.

Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby admitted on Thursday, "Secretary Hagel has been trying, himself, since early this week," adding that Lebedev refuses "to communicate, to accept a phone call" from either Hagel or the Pentagon.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: defense; hagel; minister; ukraine
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To: marron

...I can talk to a drunken-bumbling fool anywhere. Why him? Have you seen a picture of that guy lately?


21 posted on 02/21/2014 10:34:57 AM PST by gr8eman (Neptune, Titan, stars don't frighten!)
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To: colorado tanker

As predicted by intelligent people, Ukraine started to lean Russian the moment Obama pulled the missile defense shield from Poland. Russia used this as an example that these former satellites should not turn west. “After-all, if the US is willing to throw Poland, a NATO alley and EU member under the bus, do they really have your back?”


22 posted on 02/21/2014 12:00:39 PM PST by 11th Commandment (http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
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To: 11th Commandment

That is an excellent point.


23 posted on 02/21/2014 12:23:00 PM PST by colorado tanker
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