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Posted on 03/02/2014 6:21:09 AM PST by mandaladon
President Obama is tiptoeing around Russia's apparent intervention to help separatists in Ukraine's Crimea region, but what else can he do when he has squandered any clout he might have had?
Obama came to the podium in the White House to say that "we are now deeply concerned by military movements taken by the Russian Federation within Ukraine," and warned that intervention would invite international condemnation. Obama warned Russia that there would be "costs" from the international community, but did not say how that would be arranged. Russia, as one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, has the power to veto any action by the world body.
But what he said didn't go much farther than earlier statements by administration officials, including press secretary Jay Carney, who earlier refused repeatedly to speculate on what the U.S. might do if proof emerged of Russian intervention aimed at splitting Ukraine. Since Russia has a major naval base in the Crimea, at Sevastopol, at least some of its forces are already in the region and are a focus of reports that Moscow is aiding separatists there. Some conservatives slammed the response as insufficient, but there really isn't much the administration can do after years of giving Russian President Vladimir Putin the impression that President Obama is a pushover. From the "reset" through the voluntary withdrawal of missile defense deployments in Eastern Europe and the "red line" over chemical weapons use in Syria that wasn't a line at all to Obama's Feb. 19 comment that Ukraine is not a piece on a "Cold War chessboard," the administration hasn't given Putin much reason to fear its resolve.
Putin "views the United States as weak," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., told Britain's Channel 4.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Tinkle down his leg.
Obama endorses all behavior that diminishes America’s position in the world.
Well, to be entirely correct, everyone has the goods on Obama. I mean, his entire history is pretty well documented here and elsewhere on the net. So the issue isn't about actual facts, but about media & information.
He is the very definition of a compromised person - purposely placed at his current level to be easily controlled. So the question comes down to not just why he was placed in his position, and what his handlers expect to achieve.
The bankers/MIC have earned $trillions upon $trillions using 'Bama as a shell "buyer". Now it's Putin's term to use someone so woefully compromised that he can be anyone's bitch at their beck & call.
Some day, Obama might consider that his deal to just hang around getting stoned & playing golf might be exceeding his already low threshold. If his backers can no longer get anything useful out of him, and he's now more valuable to people like Putin, then we could see movement after the 2014 elections to finally remove his sorry ass.
Which reporter will ask him or the spokesboy what they were talking about there? How do the presstitutes sleep at night?
My prediction: None.
How do the presstitutes sleep at night?
In onesies.
I hope that he’ll do nothing. That’s better than doing something because every time the POS does something, it harms this country.
Cry
Moscow has said “no” to Saudi Arabia’s alleged proposal of a rich arms deal and protection of Russia’s gas interests in the Middle East in exchange for abandoning Syrian President Bashar Assad, according to Arab and European diplomats.
According to an undisclosed European diplomat, Prince Bandar proposed the deal and told Putin that “whatever regime comes after” Assad will be “completely” in Riyadh’s hands. The Prince reportedly stated that if the deal was accepted, Saudi Arabia would not sign any contracts damaging Russian interests by allowing Gulf countries to transport its gas across Syria to Europe.
http://rt.com/news/saudi-russia-arms-putin-239/
Bad time to rely on Russia for trips to the international space station too. But NASA is too busy with muslim outreach.
Thanks! That was great!
Prezzie dis Pootie. Pootie play knockout.
And if Palin were still governor, her calls for federal assistance would be shunned out of pure spite. Might still be.
Everyone in Congress and the presstitute corps knows that Obama is an illegal alien. Half the population thinks he is.
In such a situation, can Putin be blackmailing Obama?
One can hope Putin does not blackmail the imposter in chief, instead just come out with the true lowdown on the imposter in charge..!
The Saudis along with other Sunni Gulf states are heavily subsidizing Egypt. Without those subsidies the price of food and other necessities would skyrocket and Egypt would become ungovernable. The Saudis want Sunni Egypt to be a client state with its paid army at its rear. The Saudi royal family is terrified of Shi’ite Iran. The mullahs hit a very sensitive nerve when they preach that the decadent Saudi royals are not fit custodians of Islam’s most holy sites.It is common knowledge that while the Saudi royals publicly portray themselves as devout Muslims and use Sharia law to control the population, their behavior in private and abroad is less than sterling. The fundamentalist Wahhabi within Saudi Arabia have made the same comments. Currently they have been bought off by allowing them to function openly and with funding. However these Sunni fundamentalists are also a threat to the Saudi royals. The worst scenario would be radical Shi’ite fundamentalists controlling Iran and Sunni Wahhabi types ultimately controlling the Sunni confederation the Saudis are trying to assemble.
How do you see what has happened in Libya?
...and taunting!
Putin laughed at us the day he was first elected. He’s done nothing to make Putin or the rest of the world reconsider.
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