I was against Ukrainian travel before I was for Ukrainian travel.
Posted on 03/28/2014 12:53:21 PM PDT by Nachum
Just three days after the State Department issued a travel warning for Ukraine, it began promoting a campaign urging Americans to visit the country, prompting confusion and concern from some foreign policy observers.
The State Department issued a Ukraine travel warning on March 21 warning “U.S. citizens to defer all non-essential travel to Ukraine and to defer all travel to the Crimean Peninsula and eastern regions of Kharkiv, Donetsk, and Lugansk due to the presence of Russian military forces in the Crimean Peninsula, and in Russia near the Ukrainian border.”
Three days after that warning was issued the State Department’s official Twitter feed disseminated an official video promoting travel to Ukraine and arguing that all is safe for tourists.
“Disinformation: Kyiv is a burned out battle ground filled with rampaging lawless groups,” wrote a caption on the video, which was posted by the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv. “Fact: The effects of the Maidan confrontation are extremely localized, relegated to three or four streets in the center of the city.”
The video struck some foreign policy observers as confusing given the sharp contrast between the two messages.
State Department Spokeswoman Marie Harf told the Free Beacon that the video is an effort to combat “Kremlin propaganda” that aims to distort the situation in Ukraine and mislead the international community.
“It is meant as a vivid counterpoint to the lies and disinformation being spewed forth by Moscow,” Harf told the Free Beacon when asked about the film.
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Damn, better get on Expedia and cancel that fun filled package to Kharkov.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
by the way , where has Kerry disappeared to ,on vacation ?
It would be hard to imagine a less astute president, and team of advisers.
If they were looking to be taken serious, and number one in something, I think I’ve nailed the category.
I have been trying to work with their consulate on getting a residency visa and right now it is no go.
He is probably sauced up and laying under a bar table somewhere.
he is with the prez on his vacation right now.
I was against Ukrainian travel before I was for Ukrainian travel.
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