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Kerry condemns Russian moves in Crimea while Putin stays defiant
CNN ^ | March 4, 2014 | By Laura Smith-Spark. Diana Magnay and Phil Black

Posted on 03/04/2014 9:27:31 AM PST by Jim Robinson

Simferopol, Ukraine (CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry accused Russia of making up reasons for intervention in Ukraine, saying Tuesday that "not a single piece of credible evidence supports any one of these claims."

"Russia has talked about Russian-speaking citizens being under siege. They're not," he said while on a visit to Kiev.

He condemned what he called Russia's aggression in Crimea and urged the country to withdraw its troops.

"We would like to see this de-escalated. We're not looking for some major confrontation," he said, while still promising sanctions on Russia if it refuses to step back.

Kerry's comments came a few hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin defiantly defended his country's right to intervene in Ukraine.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: cfr; coup; crimea; eu; ghengiscon; kerry; maybealittlebloooo; nwo; obama; putin; radicalcoup; russia; secstatekerry; syria; time2playgolf; ukraine; ukrainecrisis
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Kerry stomps his foot.
1 posted on 03/04/2014 9:27:31 AM PST by Jim Robinson
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To: Jim Robinson

What a bunch of clowns this administration is.


2 posted on 03/04/2014 9:28:12 AM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11))
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To: Jim Robinson

Did he throw any medals over a fence?


3 posted on 03/04/2014 9:28:53 AM PST by b4its2late (A Progressive is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Jim Robinson

http://www.kyivpost.com/media/images/2012/09/08/p176ivfhir1plv1lddi1mo9j10od4/content.jpg


4 posted on 03/04/2014 9:29:30 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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One of the comments on the CNN thread:

We should sanction Russia with Obamacare.

It’s brutal.


5 posted on 03/04/2014 9:30:14 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Meanwhile, Kerry treks back to his hootch and grabs his 16 mm film camera to recreate his historic meeting with the Russian officials Putin sent because he just didn’t feel the need to be bothered by a horse fly.


6 posted on 03/04/2014 9:30:57 AM PST by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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To: All


7 posted on 03/04/2014 9:31:25 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx

Too true. But talk is cheap on Ukraine and real on the others.


8 posted on 03/04/2014 9:33:08 AM PST by elhombrelibre (Free Ukraine. Free Venezuela. Free Syria. Free Iran. Free the USA.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Oh, pulleeeeeze...NO ONE gives a smelly Obama about anything our ludicrous government says anymore.

We are a world-class joke and everyone knows it (except for Obama, the MSM, congresscritters, the State Department, and the vast majority of lib arts departments in our universities).


9 posted on 03/04/2014 9:33:25 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: onyx

Priceless!


10 posted on 03/04/2014 9:34:16 AM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: Sacajaweau; All

” - - - White House is announcing an aid package to Ukraine of $1 billion - - - “

FINALLY! A highly successful backward solution to all known problems comes out of the Nobel Peace Prize winning White House!

“What is that?, “ You may ask? The answer, of course, is unlimited amounts of unfunded US Taxpayer Debt Dollars!

Yup! Works every time, and faster than you can can say “IcandoanythingIwantbyjustbyoassingCongress.” Nobel Laurette Soetoro-Obama just says: “Charge it to the next generation, please! Whoopee! My work here is done! Golf anyone?”

Secretary of Statements John “Cachup” Kerry will ride in, start writing rubber checks, and the ensuing bright rosy glow will spread around the World. Well, maybe not onto “the Arab Street.”

Although the always weak, Obamanation Foreign Policy is well on the way to its usual backward success, there are still a few topics that have yet to be resolved, as follows:

* Were is the Internet Video that caused the Ukrainians to force their beloved President to take the entire Ukrainian Treasury with him when he fled the country?

* Will “Catchup” Kerry enlist the help of famed video detective Susan Rice to help him track down and jail the perp. who made this awful, obscure, unknown video, that the United States had nothing to do with?

* Will the US Department of Statements spend more unfunded US Taxpayer Debt Dollars for the Ukranian Denial Ad than they did for the 2012 Benghazi Denial Ad?

* Note: Kerry must excel here because due to the obvious cruel onslaught of the aging process on Mrs. Bill Clinton, “Catchup” Kerry may be duty-bound to replace her as the obvious Democrat frontrunner in the 2016 Presidential race.

* Since POS Soetoro-Obama hit the famous RESET BUTTON on Russia, the NASA Space Program has had to be “dependent on the kindness of strangers” from Russia. Hopefully, our astronauts will be able to borrow food and vodka from the Russians while they wait for “Catchup” Kerry to resolve this Ukrainian “investment.”

* Will buddy Vlad Putin be as flexible with the Renowned Obamanation Foreign Policy as Soetoro-Obama was with Putin?

* Rumor has it that Vlad Putin has his eye on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his defusing of the Syrian “Red Line” Crisis.

* Another rumor is that Putin could win the Nobel Peace Prize if he sold all of Russia’s US Treasury Notes, requested that the USA be dropped from the G9, and appointed Snowden to be the Russian Ambassador to the United States of America.


11 posted on 03/04/2014 9:34:32 AM PST by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: onyx

What would Obama say if Russia and China decided to sanction the United States.


12 posted on 03/04/2014 9:34:38 AM PST by UncleSam (Why must someone else always make the final decisions?)
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To: Jim Robinson

They actually used the nuclear word “condemn”?

Oh noes!


13 posted on 03/04/2014 9:35:24 AM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: UncleSam

Might as well.
Let’s have a full scale melt down here, to bring on a much needed revolution.


14 posted on 03/04/2014 9:37:55 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx

Yup. That’s our boy.


15 posted on 03/04/2014 9:39:52 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Jim Robinson

My guess remains, that Putin is actually de-escalating something of a rebellion by some Russian Admirals who no doubt feel that “there’s no way we are giving up the Crimea!”

The Crimea will likely become “more” ... “independent,” and the Ukraine will not get it back.

Meanwhile, Kerry will try to take credit for the fact that the Russians have neither shot a lot of people nor blown up a lot of property.

But, if Kerry keeps yapping, he could *escalate* matters.

Putin already knows how anything more will be unpopular, on the heels of the Olympics ... among a large portion of his countrymen.

It’s up to Kerry to de-escalate Kerry, instead of looking for opportunities for Kerry to take credit.


16 posted on 03/04/2014 9:41:44 AM PST by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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To: Jim Robinson

And “boy” is the key, identifying word.


17 posted on 03/04/2014 9:41:59 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: xzins

Told you they were going to speak sternly. He even threatened to “isolate” Russia. Bet that one hurt.


18 posted on 03/04/2014 9:42:15 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Jim Robinson
Was he par-lay-voo-ing en Francais?
19 posted on 03/04/2014 9:42:44 AM PST by clintonh8r (Don't twerk me, Broi)
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To: Jim Robinson

Next, Lurch will start holding his breath.


20 posted on 03/04/2014 9:42:50 AM PST by jazusamo ([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
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