Posted on 03/12/2014 10:19:01 AM PDT by Errant
With diplomacy having failed miserably to resolve the Russian annexation of Crimea, and soon East Ukraine (and with John Kerry in charge of it, was there ever any doubt), the US is moving to the heavy artillery. First, moments ago, the US DOE announced in a shocking announcement that it would proceed with the first draw down and sale of crude from the US strategic petroleum reserve, the first since June 2011, in what it said was a "test sale to check the operational capabilities of system infrastructure", but is really just a shot across the bow at Putin for whom high commodity prices are orders of magnitude more important than how the Russian stock market performs. And now, as Bloomberg just reported, the US has escalated even further, citing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, who "has claimed that in the case of an escalation of unrest in Crimea, the U.S. Army is ready to back up Ukraine and its allies in Europe with military actions."
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This pansy moron prez is going to start WW3...
NWO doing what it does.
Are you freaking kidding me?????
Boots on the ground? B-52 strikes? Drones? Against the Soviets as they exercise their rights under a treaty?
Stick to the harsh letters and statements over this one.
does everyone love us yet?
Really ?
Won't the Russians soldiers be unable to fight because they will be laughing themselves to death at our soldiers wearing pink tutu's ?
“This pansy moron prez is going to start WW3...”
It’s really no different than having Richard Simmons as president.
That draw down is to give Obama more money to p*ss away. A shot across the bow would be to immediately deploy all submarines and move the aircraft carriers out of their semi permanent births and put them to sea.
But as Obama said on TV, “Don’t call my bluff.’ (Huh?)
“NWO doing what it does.”
The Soros Cabal has to make sure they have their currencies puts in, first.
That's the craziest thing I've ever heard. These people are friggin nutz. Nothing more dangerous than a thin skinned liberal peacenik!
Really, cuz the talking heads have telling me that Mr. Mom Jeans hasn’t been tough enough.
Throw out the regime and put in those who believe that a strong military brings peace. Otherwise, this country will always be weak and ripe for conquest.
The kenyan hasn’t done anything. He just moved a few jets to NATO countries. You got a problem with that?
Exactly.
Oh, it becomes indistinguishable from the Occupy Terra neocons after a point. Twenty years of fruitless sand wars and they are still not sated.
“He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men’s weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be dampened. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength. Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain. Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor dampened, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue... In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.”
-Sun Tzu, the Art of War
Did the CJCS say that before or after he got off of his knees...
That's funny, He and Odierno claimed they could barely keep a combat brigade fully capable for deployment just a few months ago.
Kerry: “My time in East Ukraine is seared, seared into my memory”
I saw a story about Dempsey recently that was bothersome to me. I’ll try to find it and post it later if I do find it. Basically, it gave the impression that he’s pretty close to those globalist running the world.
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