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Russian minister's advice to US over Crimea: do yoga and chill out
Guardian ^ | 04/03/2014 | Shaun Walker

Posted on 04/03/2014 10:47:10 AM PDT by goldstategop

A top Russian official has accused the US of "childish tantrums" in its response to the annexation of Crimea, and suggested that American politicians practise yoga and watch sitcoms to help chill out.

"Clearly, the US leadership is really annoyed, and cannot come to terms with the new situation, which has arisen in large part due to the deliberate line taken by the US and its allies in Europe to prepare anti-Russian forces to take power in Ukraine," said deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, in an interview with Interfax.

"Trying to demonstrate how unhappy it is with the exercise of free will by the population of Crimea and the decisions we took related to it, Washington is ruining contacts even in places where continuing dialogue is in their own interests.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: chillout; crimea; guardian; russia; shaunwalker; slang; yoga
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To: Count of Monte Fisto

You mean the “legitimate government of Syria” that does the same things and is funded by Iran and Russia among others?

I think everyone agrees that what the USA and EU are doing by backing al-Qa’eda is an exercise in madness. The so-called “legitimate government”, though, is the same one that funds Hezbollah and illegitimately demands the Golan Heights from Israel among other things. Ain’t that funny?


21 posted on 04/03/2014 11:09:56 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: goldstategop
Yoga and chill out.


22 posted on 04/03/2014 11:10:39 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'd rather be a living "gun culture" member than a dead anti-gun candy-ass.)
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To: goldstategop

Imagine the Russian reaction to their own advice to chill out and do yoga after a NATO invasion and seizure of Kaliningrad (East Prussia).


23 posted on 04/03/2014 11:10:56 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I wasn’t aware that Ukraine was being assimilated into Russia before the Obama/Soros/sodomite EU staged coup. Now the Ukrainians are going to be assimilated into the NWO whether they like it or not. People in the EU go to jail if they just speak out against assimilation into the NWO.


24 posted on 04/03/2014 11:15:11 AM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: Count of Monte Fisto
I wasn’t aware that Ukraine was being assimilated into Russia....

There's your problem.

25 posted on 04/03/2014 11:16:32 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: WhiskeyX

They’re being bullies.

Obama is a bully, kind of. But one without the cajones of the Bear. Hubris, meet nemesis.

I’d normally grieve over this, but even Putin knows this is a lightweight. He hasn’t knocked over America’s best, far from it.


26 posted on 04/03/2014 11:16:53 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Count of Monte Fisto

“Coup” of what, political leaning?

Was Ukraine ever declaring war on Russia? No.


27 posted on 04/03/2014 11:17:44 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: 1rudeboy

Yuppers, Rudy.


28 posted on 04/03/2014 11:18:25 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Olog-hai

Just because we don’t like how a particular government acts doesn’t mean its not legitimate. For example, our government funds Christian slaughtering Al Qaeda mercenaries to attack countries and overthrow governments that are no threat to the us people yet it is still our legitimate government.


29 posted on 04/03/2014 11:20:37 AM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: 1rudeboy

Proof, please.


30 posted on 04/03/2014 11:21:19 AM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: goldstategop

I guess Russia has its share of adolescents in charge, too.


31 posted on 04/03/2014 11:24:01 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Count of Monte Fisto

Yanukovych ditched his country’s agreement with the EU in favor of reactionary globalist Putin’s plan for a free trade agreement and closer ties.


32 posted on 04/03/2014 11:24:57 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Navy Patriot

The bottom line is that Putin and Obama really, really don’t like each other. Or so it seems.


33 posted on 04/03/2014 11:31:28 AM PDT by grania
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Obama? Strategy?

Sorry, B.S. don’t fly in Moscow.

Who cares anything about Obama BS in Moscow?

You should be concerned about Obama BS everywhere else, that's where it's working.

34 posted on 04/03/2014 11:32:00 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: grania
The bottom line is that Putin and Obama really, really don’t like each other. Or so it seems.

Pretty much a safe bet.

35 posted on 04/03/2014 11:35:30 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
“Coup” of what, political leaning?

You didn't see on TV those Right Sector and Svoboda extremists throwing firebombs at cops until they forced the rump parliament (conveniently half its members, most of which supported the legal government, had fled for their lives) illegally installed a Globalist Bankster puppet regime.

36 posted on 04/03/2014 11:37:59 AM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: WhiskeyX

Putin has opened a Pandora’s Box that is going to ultimately end very badly for Russia with long lasting consequences, regardless of what does or does not happen to non-Russians worldwide.


37 posted on 04/03/2014 11:39:27 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: NRA1995

Is Pajama Boy really Aronofsky?

38 posted on 04/03/2014 11:42:58 AM PDT by mark3681
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To: Count of Monte Fisto
parliament (conveniently half its members, most of which supported the legal government, had fled for their lives)

Yet those brave members of Parliament returned to impeach Yanukovych by a vote of 328-0 (half of them mistakenly voting the wrong way, apparently).

39 posted on 04/03/2014 11:45:46 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: goldstategop

Maybe that’s what he thought Obama meant about having “more flexibility”.


40 posted on 04/03/2014 11:48:28 AM PDT by Durbin
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