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Obama dismisses Russia as ‘regional power’ acting out of weakness
The Washington Post ^ | 25 Mar 2014 | Scott Wilson

Posted on 03/25/2014 11:58:36 AM PDT by mandaladon

THE HAGUE — President Obama acknowledged Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea would be difficult to reverse, but he dismissed Russia as a “regional power” that did not pose a leading security threat to the United States.

Concluding a summit here on nuclear security, Obama also warned that broader Russian military intervention in neighboring countries would trigger further economic sanctions that would disrupt the global economy but hit Russia the hardest.

“Russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors — not out of strength but out of weakness,” Obama said in response to a reporter’s question about whether his 2012 election opponent, Mitt Romney, was right to characterize Russia as America’s biggest geopolitical foe.

“They don’t pose the number one national security threat to the United States,” Obama said in a news conference. “I continue to be much more concerned when it comes to our security with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan.”

Defending his response to the Ukraine crisis, Obama dismissed criticism that a perception of weakness abroad had prompted Putin to seize Ukraine’s autonomous Crimea region this month, an act the United States and Europe have called a violation of both Ukrainian and international law. But Obama made clear that no military response is being contemplated, unless Putin pushes into NATO member nations on Russia’s western border.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: americaindecline; lordhelpus; obama; obamaquotes; projection; putin; russia; themouththatroared; ukraine; viktoryanukovich; yuliatymoshenko
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I honestly feel that Obama is a bigger threat to the US than any other country or terrorist group.
1 posted on 03/25/2014 11:58:37 AM PDT by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon
Well, in Obama's defense, he does know all about acting out of weakness.
2 posted on 03/25/2014 12:01:13 PM PDT by Buggman (returnofbenjamin.com - Baruch haBa b'Shem ADONAI!)
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To: mandaladon

Might Russia threaten the 0’ regime’s natural allies in South America? You know, countries like Cuba and Venezuela?


3 posted on 03/25/2014 12:01:25 PM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: mandaladon

Russia to Obama....”I know you are, but what am I?”


4 posted on 03/25/2014 12:01:42 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Buggman

Obama is repeating information he received in a policy briefing.


5 posted on 03/25/2014 12:03:07 PM PDT by WhiskeyX ( provides a system for registering complaints about unfair broadcasters and the ability to request a)
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To: mandaladon

“I honestly feel that Obama is a bigger threat to the US than any other country or terrorist group. “

Lincoln said, “No foreign power, by force of arms, could take a drink from Ohio river without the complicity of American traitors.’


6 posted on 03/25/2014 12:03:11 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: mandaladon

ACORN foreign policy in action.


7 posted on 03/25/2014 12:03:19 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: C210N
Might Russia threaten the 0’ regime’s natural allies in South America? You know, countries like Cuba and Venezuela?

At the same time that Russia was denying having blockaded Ukrainian naval facilities in Crimea, little-noticed reports came out of Moscow saying that Vladimir Putin’s government had ongoing conversations with eight foreign countries with the objective of building overseas military facilities, including in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
FOX, March 4, 2014.

8 posted on 03/25/2014 12:04:06 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: mandaladon

Can a country with an arsenal of nuclear warheads and numerous platforms for delivering them be called a regional power? Can a country so vast that its capitol is closer to Chicago than it is to its easternmost city be considered a regional power? Ridiculous.


9 posted on 03/25/2014 12:04:34 PM PDT by Inwoodian
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To: mandaladon

I’m so sick of this idiot.


10 posted on 03/25/2014 12:05:45 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Obama: The first "White Black" President.)
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To: mandaladon

Obama’s entire Residency has consisted of one dedicated to devolving America to the same status as the rest of the known world. And now he is dismissing other country actions as regional? He can’t make up his mind. He either wants this petty regional egalitarianism, or he wants something else, especially when it comes to HIM.

He is nothing more than a pitiful example of horribly misplaced affirmative action coupled with the abject ignorance by American liberals’ support. He is simply a lightweight incompetent Muslim who hates America and cannot stand to be outplayed by anyone except by that mooch of a wife and an overbearing mother-in-law and an Iranian hydra who controls him.

A narcissistic pansy piece of poof.


11 posted on 03/25/2014 12:06:32 PM PDT by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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To: mandaladon

That Obama is about a mouthy little b*tch. I miss Reagan. :(


12 posted on 03/25/2014 12:06:39 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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“I continue to be much more concerned when it comes to our security with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan.”

And who would do something like that, Bammy? Could it be, ummm, ...

Islamic Terrorists?!


13 posted on 03/25/2014 12:07:18 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: Dalberg-Acton

If he ever ends up in prison, he’ll be EVERYBODY’s bitch.


14 posted on 03/25/2014 12:07:41 PM PDT by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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To: mandaladon

Obama, in order to save his wretched and putrid image from that of a gay weakling, invites Putin, in his weak state that is /sarc, to prove he is the man and take more.

Good job Obama. /sarc

Who luvs ya baby!


15 posted on 03/25/2014 12:07:58 PM PDT by dforest
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To: mandaladon

0 is a weak idiot.


16 posted on 03/25/2014 12:08:30 PM PDT by madison10
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To: mandaladon

It’s basically Obama saying that the Russian takeover of Crimea and potential takeover of Ukraine is not a big deal to him, because he would rather be golfing than dealing with it.


17 posted on 03/25/2014 12:12:06 PM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: Gaffer
Somehow, I don't think he will mind one little bit.
Remember "The Longest Yard"?


18 posted on 03/25/2014 12:12:27 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: dfwgator

Obama is the kid whose lunch has just been taken by the class bully: “I wasn’t hungry, anyway.”

Although admittedly not an expert in geopolitics, I would still be loathe to underestimate Putin’s Russia.


19 posted on 03/25/2014 12:12:30 PM PDT by paterfamilias
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To: Dallas59

When Putin and mac daddy meet face to face only one of them wears depends, take a guess who wears the depends.


20 posted on 03/25/2014 12:18:13 PM PDT by chiefqc
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