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U.S. Spies Said No Russian Invasion of Ukraine—Putin Disagreed
The Daily Beast ^
| 1 Mar 2014
| Eli Lake,Christopher Dickey
Posted on 03/01/2014 10:28:30 AM PST by mandaladon
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Nonetheless, until Friday, no one anticipated a Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory."Nobody thought Putin was going to invade last night, one Senate aide who works closely on the Ukraine crisis. ..................Guess what?
To: mandaladon
This administration would have to improve 1000% just to up to the level of 'incompetent'.
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posted on
03/01/2014 10:31:10 AM PST
by
tbpiper
To: mandaladon
This administration is horrible. A joke. They need to be thrown out of office. The Obama Red Lines are all over the place now. All of them have been crossed with impunity. Our president is a coward at best.
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posted on
03/01/2014 10:31:24 AM PST
by
shankbear
(The tree of Liberty appears to be perishing because there are few patriots willing to refresh it.)
To: mandaladon
This goes straight to a pet peeve of mine: I don't care if
you think that Putin will not invade. Your
job is to assume he will.
And let's be frank . . . if Vegas was to lay odds . . . .
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posted on
03/01/2014 10:31:38 AM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: mandaladon
it's obvious that Putin calculated correctly yet again. The United States was gulled into thinking that Russia would forbear this time because the siloviki gave assurances to a U.S. diplomatic corps eager to believe anything that it would do. Washingtons own intelligence community, fresh from proclaiming a year ago that Bashar al-Assad had weeks left in power, assessed yesterday that we dont have any reason to think that the surprise drill of 150,000 soldiers announced overnight by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu would amount to more than military exercises. And given that the United States has yet to definitively label what transpired eight months ago in Egypt a coup, the Kremlin must have also reckoned that a rapid takeover of Crimea would be all over but for the shouting as Washington sputtered to define exactly what had just transpired, much less attempted a coherent response to yet another international crisis. Who needs fraternal assistance when American officials themselves have coined the unbeatable euphemism uncontested arrival to describe a Russian invasion of one of its neighbors?.............Putin gives Obama the finger...again.
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posted on
03/01/2014 10:33:21 AM PST
by
mandaladon
(If you're going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill)
To: mandaladon
US Intelligence??? You mean the ones downloading all OUR stuff? You mean the Obama’s butt kissers? You mean the ones who told us Benghazi was due to a homemade video? LOL...now...ROTHLMAO!
But no worries world! We here in the US are enjoying our Happy Hour with the 1st World President Obama who is busy lowering the world's oceans, yada, yada, yada.
Oh yes, and to earn his Nobel Peace Prize, he reducing our military to before WW2 strength. Happy Days are here again!
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posted on
03/01/2014 10:33:46 AM PST
by
Chgogal
(Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
To: mandaladon
To: mandaladon
When NSA focuses on Tea Party Members, male Christians, registered Republicans, all cell phone calls made by Americans to anyone, and people opposing Obozo Care, they wouldn’t have any resources to monitor any real problems.
Even, if any potential incursion plans were intercepted, the Out House and its band of left wing thugs would have ignored the report and buried it like the Benghazi cover up.
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posted on
03/01/2014 10:37:56 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
( Obozo Care is a Trinity of Lies! Obozo Care is probably a serious Black Swan event.)
To: mandaladon
One former U.S. intelligence officer told The Daily Beast he expects Russian operatives to begin launching false flag style operations designed to look like terrorist attacks or arms shipments to anti-Russian groups in Crimea and to leak alleged conversations implicating Kiev and the CIA in these drummed up events.*****
Putin must have found one of the CIA’s playbooks left behind in Syria.
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posted on
03/01/2014 10:38:36 AM PST
by
bereanway
To: mandaladon
When you have a President that is incompetent then you will have people around him that are incompetent.
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posted on
03/01/2014 10:40:34 AM PST
by
SECURE AMERICA
(Where can I go to sign up for the American Revolution 2014 and the Crusades 2014?)
To: shankbear
Feckless.
Feckless President
Feckless government employees
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posted on
03/01/2014 10:41:34 AM PST
by
edcoil
(Realism is only a socially accepted for of pessimism)
To: mandaladon
Don’t blame the CIA. They are too busy preparing to celebrate “Diversity Month.”
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posted on
03/01/2014 10:43:17 AM PST
by
Cowboy Bob
(They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
To: mandaladon
Chalk up another pathetic failure for the Washington foreign policy and intelligence “experts.”
I’m so glad that these people are keeping us safe in a dangerous world.
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posted on
03/01/2014 10:43:32 AM PST
by
mojito
(Zero, our Nero.)
To: bereanway
C’mon, the Russians have been doing it for decades. If anything, they wrote the playbook that the CIA stole.
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posted on
03/01/2014 10:43:36 AM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: shankbear
"The Obama Red Lines are all over the place now. All of them have been crossed with impunity." Thanks to Daniel Greenfield for the remarks below to explain where we are with Obozo as POTUS.
The Post-American order stands for nothing except its own dismantling. That is why Obama sets red lines that he wont enforce and issues threats that he doesnt mean.
The only thing less appealing than selfishness is the complete absence of self. The only thing less appealing than empire is an anti-imperialism that so thoroughly negates its own power that it has no influence and no reason to exist.
Post-American America exists to destroy itself. Until that changes, it has nothing to offer the world except membership in a suicide pact.
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posted on
03/01/2014 10:45:10 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
( Obozo Care is a Trinity of Lies! Obozo Care is probably a serious Black Swan event.)
To: mandaladon
Obama, doing foreign policy the Chamberlain way
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posted on
03/01/2014 10:45:33 AM PST
by
Ophiucus
To: mandaladon
This is what happens when you have a commander in chief that fights for gay marriage in the military instead of preparing the military for a fight.
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posted on
03/01/2014 10:46:31 AM PST
by
struggle
To: mandaladon
In 2009 Palin predicted the invasion. US intelligence (as of THURSDAY?) couldn’t see it happening?
Oh God.
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posted on
03/01/2014 10:46:35 AM PST
by
Balding_Eagle
(Over production, one of the top 5 worries for the American Farmer every year.)
To: mandaladon
Absolute liars, psychopaths, and at their BEST incompetent undocumented sociopaths.
To: mandaladon
U.S. Spies Said No Russian Invasion of UkraineThat's the downside.
The UPside is that they have EVERY single email I have sent to my cousin about her newest recipe!
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posted on
03/01/2014 10:47:46 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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