Posted on 03/15/2014 5:48:40 PM PDT by Hoodat
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's national security team discussed the Ukraine crisis in a session at the White House on Saturday after a last-ditch bid to find a diplomatic solution to the Cold War-style standoff with Russia floundered.
Secretary of State John Kerry, who just returned from talks with his Russian counterpart in London, was at the White House meeting along with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
Obama did not attend the meeting but was being briefed about it and other developments involving Ukraine, said Laura Lucas Magnuson, a spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council.
Crimea's pro-Russia parliament has scheduled a referendum on Sunday to decide whether the region should be annexed by Russia, an ominous development that Obama and his national security team have been trying to head off to no avail.
Obama said on Friday he still hopes a diplomatic solution can be found but that the United States and Europe are prepared to impose "consequences" on Russia if it does not loosen its grip on Crimea.
White House deliberations took on a new urgency as . . .
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President Jarrett was there.
George and his Ukrainian Nazis are currently busy directing the Malaysian Airlines conspiracy , Mrs Mith!
Susan Rice told him, Mr. President, there is no need for you to miss your scheduled Remedial Golf Lesson. Michelle says your Golf Coach has already been paid, so Michelle thinks that it would be both imprudent and poor etiquette for you not to show up for your Golf Lesson, don’t you agree?
Amazing what Universal Suffrage has wrought
HaHaHa...The President's input isn't even needed (or desired)...
That was my question. Was Jarrett at the meeting?
Some 1994 Budapest Memorandum
Check out the Budapest Memorandum signed by Clinton in 1994.
“They couldn’t even find Ukraine on a map.”
Soon that might be true for everybody.
If Clinton signed it, it isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
“What protection treaty? They’re not part of NATO.
I dont know if it is in the form of a treaty but the USA under three presidents promised the USA promised Ukraine if they disarmed we would protect them. The first was Bill Clinton promising protection if they gave up the nuclear weapons they had from the USSR days. Bush continued supporting the promise and Obamas stepped it up a notch assuring them if they downsize their conventional as well arsenal and military in general we would take care of them if Russia got out of line. The United States of America through 3 very corrupt presidents) lied repeatedly to get these people to basically give up their ability to defend themselves.
Something to be proud of. Tis is a country that cannot be trusted anymore, by anyone.
Yea...especially by US citizens.
“They couldn’t even find Ukraine on a map.”
That’s because they were looking for “Crimeria” as the Lurch calls it.
Like most of their meeting, they probably bitched and made fun of President Bush the whole time. In the last five minutes, they probably decided to put 1 American Tank on the polish side of Ukraine’s border.
Dont you know, his pair of jeans DO fit.
Trust the government and give up your guns they say.
Then years from now we will be like, man, we could have just resisted then had we known... now it is too late...
Faithless people who look for the next thing and promise we are.
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