Posted on 03/30/2014 9:13:40 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
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Russian Amb. on Obama’s Comments: ‘ “If You Consider Russia “a Regional Power,” Look at Our Region — From Europe to Asia”
Russia’s ambassador to the United States this morning had a sharp retort when asked about President Obama’s comments that Russia is a “regional power acting out of weanes.”
“If you consider Russia ‘a regional power,’” he said, “look at our region — it is from Europe to Asia.” President Vladimir Putin has talked up a Eurasioan Union as his anti-Western alternative to the European Union, and close advisers to Putin believe in a certain Eurasian ideology.
When ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked the ambassador whether Russia would consider pulling back from Crimea as a condition of a diplomatic solution, he wasn’t taken too seriously either: “What kind of from Crimea are you talking about?” Ambassador Kislyak said. “We are talking about territory of Russian Federation [sic].”
Crimea, he said, is now part of Russia, because “there was an expressed will of people living in Crime to become part of Russian Federation.”
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The single Russian aircraft carrier has a larger displacement than both Italian carriers together — not that a single metric means much.
How would your conclusion change, if you were to factor in Russian strategic and tactical nuclear weapons , and Russian nuclear submarines?
Oh, so you agree with Obama’s comment?
That Russia is a regional power? Yes.
They could not do the same to us.
Their aging nuclear arsenal could indeed start a global war - but it's hard to call yourself a global power if the only way you can make your power felt globally is to use a tactic that will ensure your own erasure as a country.
The thing is, Russia could wind up doing something they couldn’t do during the Cold War, winning the “Hearts and Minds” war.
With the US making promoting gay rights and proclaiming that Global Warming is the greatest danger to mankind, and trying to bully other nations to adopt their agenda, this is putting off a lot of countries that think the US should butt out of such things.
The US never ratified the Kyoto Protocol.
Putin's Russia not only ratified it, Russia's ratification was the last one needed to make it binding on the parties - Russia is the one who imposed Kyoto on the world.
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