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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: chillout; crimea; guardian; russia; shaunwalker; slang; yoga
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Yoga and chill out.

The Russians are improving in the use of slang. What a hoot!

1 posted on 04/03/2014 10:47:10 AM PDT by goldstategop
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They should tell 0bama to reset hisself.


2 posted on 04/03/2014 10:49:15 AM PDT by Paladin2
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Chill out... as in getting ready to serve revenge cold? Check.

Power has to have a heart or in the long term it goes down to hell. This is why the humongous charade to make it look like all Crimea asked to be part of Russia.


3 posted on 04/03/2014 10:49:16 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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A blast listening to this:

“The situation is turning into a joke when, for example, meetings between meteorologists are cancelled,” said Ryabkov.

“What can we advise our American colleagues? They should get more fresh air, do yoga, eat healthily, maybe watch some sitcoms on television.

“This is better than getting themselves and others all worked up when they know very well that the train has already departed and that childish tantrums, tears and hysterics will not help things.”

HAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA


4 posted on 04/03/2014 10:50:02 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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They’re laughing at us. This is what Zero has brought the United States to. This is a “reset” alright.


5 posted on 04/03/2014 10:50:11 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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Chill out, it’s just a small piece of territory. And the rest of them are Nazis, anyway.


6 posted on 04/03/2014 10:52:24 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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They are indeed laughing at us. They loathe weakness, even in adversaries.


7 posted on 04/03/2014 10:52:30 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (FIGHT! FIGHT! SEVERE CONSERVATIVE AND THE WILD RIGHT!)
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Reminds me of Germany's former Chancellor addressing his Reichstag with various jokes about Roosevelt and his ineffectiveness after the Anschluss.

He probably should have taken things more seriously.

8 posted on 04/03/2014 10:55:22 AM PDT by wideawake
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They are indeed laughing at us

Could they be goading the US into doing something stupid or encouraging Ukraine or its thugs to do something stupid and then they'll be justified to take a corridor in eastern Ukraine to connect Crimea to Russia?

9 posted on 04/03/2014 10:55:58 AM PDT by grania
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Yoga and chill out.

What Putin really said to mac daddy was: “ Pink bra and Pink Panties and visit your favorite bath house”.


10 posted on 04/03/2014 10:56:28 AM PDT by chiefqc
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11 posted on 04/03/2014 10:57:50 AM PDT by PGR88
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Yes; anything but be on the sort of war footing that George Washington recommended. A placid America is good for a resurgent Russian Empire.
12 posted on 04/03/2014 10:59:08 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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This shows you exactly how seriously they - and the rest of the world - take us now.

Obama has reduced the US to a laughing stock. We are perceived worldwide now as being powerless, concerned only with the bizarre combination of homosexual and Muslim “issues,” and consciously weakening ourselves economically to the point that we will be about at the level of South Africa (if even that good) before too long.


13 posted on 04/03/2014 11:00:56 AM PDT by livius
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Yoga is easier in those loose mommy jeans...


14 posted on 04/03/2014 11:03:34 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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Could they be goading the US into doing something stupid or encouraging Ukraine or its thugs to do something stupid and then they'll be justified...

It is wise to examine this tactic and consider it among all the others.

It is also wise to consider the exact opposite situation, that Obama is tactically trying to goad Russia (Putin) into doing something stupid so the world will see Obama's actions as justified.

15 posted on 04/03/2014 11:03:38 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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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.

The US and EU fund and arm Christian slaughtering Al Qaeda foreign mercenaries to overthrow the legitimate government of Syria. Is it such a stretch to believe that the US and EU would instigate the overthrow of the legitimate Ukrainian government?

16 posted on 04/03/2014 11:04:53 AM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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Obama and the progressive Rat's favorite Yoga position is: “Bent Over in Bathhouse”.
17 posted on 04/03/2014 11:05:57 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: Olog-hai

Well, Washington also didn’t cotton to foreign entanglements. The Barbary Pirates got engaged only when they were menacing trade to the new USA.

That said, technology has made the world so small that Russia might as well be at our doorstep. If isolationism made sense at one time, it doesn’t now.


18 posted on 04/03/2014 11:05:58 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

Anti-Russian means not wanting to be assimilated into Russia. I guess that’s some big crime.


19 posted on 04/03/2014 11:07:23 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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Obama? Strategy?

Sorry, B.S. don’t fly in Moscow.


20 posted on 04/03/2014 11:08:28 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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