No credibility whatsoever.
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Posted on 03/01/2014 3:20:51 PM PST by kristinn
President Obama spoke for 90 minutes this afternoon with President Putin of Russia about the situation in Ukraine. President Obama expressed his deep concern over Russia’s clear violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity, which is a breach of international law, including Russia’s obligations under the UN Charter, and of its 1997 military basing agreement with Ukraine, and which is inconsistent with the 1994 Budapest Memorandum and the Helsinki Final Act. The United States condemns Russia’s military intervention into Ukrainian territory.
The United States calls on Russia to de-escalate tensions by withdrawing its forces back to bases in Crimea and to refrain from any interference elsewhere in Ukraine. We have consistently said that we recognize Russia’s deep historic and cultural ties to Ukraine and the need to protect the rights of ethnic Russian and minority populations within Ukraine. The Ukrainian government has made clear its commitment to protect the rights of all Ukrainians and to abide by Ukraine’s international commitments, and we will continue to urge them to do so.
President Obama told President Putin that, if Russia has concerns about the treatment of ethnic Russian and minority populations in Ukraine, the appropriate way to address them is peacefully through direct engagement with the government of Ukraine and through the dispatch of international observers under the auspices of the United Nations Security Council or the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). As a member of both organizations, Russia would be able to participate. President Obama urged an immediate effort to initiate a dialogue between Russia and the Ukrainian government, with international facilitation, as appropriate. The United States is prepared to participate.
President Obama made clear that Russia’s continued violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity would negatively impact Russia’s standing in the international community. In the coming hours and days, the United States will urgently consult with allies and partners in the UN Security Council, the North Atlantic Council, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and with the signatories of the Budapest Memorandum. The United States will suspend upcoming participation in preparatory meetings for the G-8. Going forward, Russia’s continued violation of international law will lead to greater political and economic isolation.
The people of Ukraine have the right to determine their own future. President Obama has directed his Administration to continue working urgently with international partners to provide support for the Ukrainian government, including urgent technical and financial assistance. Going forward, we will continue consulting closely with allies and partners, the Ukrainian government and the International Monetary Fund, to provide the new government with significant assistance to secure financial stability, to support needed reforms, to allow Ukraine to conduct successful elections, and to support Ukraine as it pursues a democratic future.
On THAT I will agree
Lol, Tavis Smiley and Ben Jealous would agree.
I’m not sure but if there is money in painting Eastern Ukranians as Goosesteppers maybe Maduro will kick us some oil bucks to paint dead beauty queens as Eva freakin Brahn.
Btw, as an interesting sidenote.
Obama’s dad was pictured partying with someone who would later be influential in the matters concerning Chile.
Arnie Nachmanoff.
Lilia Shetsova from the US foundation “Carnegie Endowment for International Peace”:
“Ukraine has become the weakest link in the post-Soviet chain. We should keep in mind that similar upheavals in other countries are possible. Ukraine’s future will depend on whether the Ukrainians can maintain the Maidan.” The “radical elements” which Shetsova wants to retain at all costs are armed neo-nazi militias, who led the Maidan violence.
Center UA, a public-sector watchdog in Ukraine funded by Western donors, key funder being billionaire George Soros, received more than $500,000 in 2012, for promoting anti-government organizations.
Soros has recently prised the putch in Ukraine: “. Now, after the Ukrainian people’s commitment to closer ties with Europe fueled a successful popular insurrection, the EU, along with the International Monetary Fund, is putting together a multibillion-dollar rescue package to save the country from financial collapse…
I established the Renaissance Foundation in Ukraine in 1990 ... it did serve as a defender of those targeted by official repression...”
Stop your American hating, over the top rhetoric. The US has always provided support for people who want to be free and independent. We espoused that message during the entire Cold War that eventually led to the downfall of the Soviet Union and the liberation of millions. I can personally attest to the effectiveness of our "meddling" in Poland and support of the Solidarity movement.
The US has a been a force for good in the world and a defender of individual liberties and freedom.
She boasted that the US funded the same opposition with $5 billion!
Nothing nefarious here. Loan guarantees and foreign investment. Russia provides much more in loans--over $15 billion. The Ukraine is in dire economic straits. They need a bailout from the EU, the IMF, and anywhere else they can get money. The economy is in shambles.
Obama: “continued violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity” ...
Quand Obama’s buddy Clinton ordered the US airforce to bomb Serbia during 80 days, and tear the territory - cradle of Serbian people - Kosovo from it, America was not much interested in Serbia’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity”...
How can the democrats contradict themselves so much? For shame!
Putin must have been holding the phone away from his ear, only bringing it close to interject an occasional “Yes!” or “I see!” The frustration of having to listen to this call must have been excruciating. Like having to listen to a call from a charity you don’t support or a salesman, just waiting for the first moment it could be deemed polite to disengage from the conversation and hang up.
No credibility whatsoever.
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I’d love to see a SNL sketch: split screen of Hussein yacking while being posed like a male model for publicity pics on his end — while Putin cradles the phone on his shoulder (making an occasional grunt) and assembles a machine gun from odds and ends he fishes off of shelves in his garage.
LOL. Certainly more credibility than you have. Where do you get your information? Pravda?
“I am no fan of Soros but Putin is a murdering thug who also currently has a border dispute with Canada.”
We all pray that the RCMP is able to mount a spirited defense against Putin taking over Canada. Can I have a sip of whatever you’re chugging?
Ukraine: population who has Russian as mother tongue:
You have a map of Los Angeles? By your logic it should be part of Mexico.
We all pray that the RCMP is able to mount a spirited defense against Putin taking over Canada. Can I have a sip of whatever you’re chugging?
The arctic border dispute is actually a very serious issue that could blow up. There is a ton of gas/oil up there apparently. But feel free to continue your isolationist day dream.
“The arctic border dispute is actually a very serious issue that could blow up.”
I live within 40 miles of Canada, and, unlike you, have visited Canada hundreds of times. If you have some inner sanctum secret that Russia plans to invade Canada, pass it on.
There’s too much BS going on from our FR cult of Troskyite/Soros neo-cons.
A Nazi shoots a mother holding her child at Babi Yar: 
Bodies of the massacred Jews in the ravine at Babi Yar, with Nazis finishing off the wounded: 
Sites of Ukraine Holocaust atrocities toward Jews: 
I personally therefore could care less if Russia takes them over or not. What goes around, comes around.
Bandera and his cronies murdered thousands of Poles as well.
How much less? And if you could care less that means you care now and we thank you for it.
As far as those mythical 'Nazis' they have long returned to wherever they were from. Outer space?
Some day soon this Nazi argument will cease to work, find something new to gas the opposition.
You are deranged. Are you a Holocaust denier? Your remarks make about as much sense as anything Odungo says.
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