I'm not trying to make Putin a 'good guy', but he has made clowns of Obama and Kerry...
Posted on 03/26/2014 12:32:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
BRUSSELS — President Obama offered a sustained and forceful rejoinder against Russia on Wednesday, denouncing the “brute force” he said it has used to intimidate neighbors like Ukraine and vowing that the United States “will never waver” in standing up for its NATO allies against aggression by Moscow.
In a speech meant as a capstone to his trip to Europe in the midst of an East-West confrontation with Russia, Mr. Obama addressed Moscow’s justifications for its intervention in Ukraine point by point, dismissing them as “absurd” or unmerited. He even defended the Iraq war, which he had opposed as a senator, as a stark contrast to the way Russia has seized the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine.
“America and the world and Europe has an interest in a strong and responsible Russia, not a weak one,” Mr. Obama told an audience of leading figures here in the capital of the European Union. “But that does not mean that Russia can run roughshod over its neighbors. Just because Russia has a deep history with Ukraine does not mean it should be able to dictate Ukraine’s future. No amount of propaganda can make right something the world knows is wrong.”
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“Make no mistake: Neither the United States nor Europe has any interest in controlling Ukraine,” Mr. Obama said. “We have sent no troops there. What we want is for the Ukrainian people to make their own decisions, just like other free people around the world.”
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“Russia’s leadership is challenging truths that only a few weeks ago seemed self-evident, that in the 21st century the borders of Europe cannot be redrawn with force, that international law matters, that people and nations can make their own decisions about their future,” he said.
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I never did think Obama would be playing anything but the submissive one.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Grab those ankles again, MomJeans! Here comes Putin!
Obama: “I’m so upset I only shot a 95 on the course today”
Obama to Putin:
Oh, You BRUTE, You!..................
Putin to Obama: yeah, you like?
America is bigger than those two spheroids of feces.
It still has a hope to get past it, but that hope has to be God.
Thinking Americans deplore barry.
"You Brute! You Vicious Brute!"
Thank you, and I agree with you!
Didn’t look like “Brute Force” to me. The Russians just walked in mostly to cheers—heck the people were waving little Rusian Flags and giving the boys sandwiches to eat. Now at the Ukrainian base there was force—but numbers of dead were kept small. When they gave up—they were escorted out. Now if the invade more of Ukraine—this might change.
“It still has a hope to get past it, but that hope has to be God.”
Sure wish He’d take some action! I feel like I am in a parallel universe every time I watch the news.
Putin don’t like gays.....................
Violence is the first recourse of the competent.
If God seems far away, who moved?
Competent in the shoes of Satan that is.
He might if he was the pitcher, not the catcher. There are some that way. It’s part of being Authentic Brute (TM).
He sounds like a petulant child.
This is the speech that got a rousing round of applause by exactly *one* person.
Now the Ukraine has just announced a FIFTY percent raise per gallon of gasoline to conform with the IMF demands being imposed on it.
Quite soon, there possibly will be a sizable percentage of citizenry ready to welcome Russian intervention...
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