Posted on 08/28/2014 11:16:24 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Whatever you do, don’t call it an invasion.
U.S. officials are refusing to call Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine this week an invasion, and the issue is not on the agenda for Thursday’s National Security Council meeting.
“Today the president is meeting with his National Security Council to discuss the situation in Iraq and Syria, our ongoing efforts to support the Iraqi government, and our efforts to counter the threat posed by ISIL,” a White House official said on Thursday when asked if the situation in Ukraine would also be a part of the meeting. “You should not expect that we’ll have new decisions to announce on these issues today.”
The meeting will include heads of intelligence agencies, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Vice President Joe Biden, and Secretary of State John Kerry, the three of whom plan to join remotely. The meeting is expected to include discussion of whether or not the U.S. will carry out strikes against the Islamist terrorist organization ISIS inside Syria.
Russian combat troops are currently inside southeastern Ukraine. NATO released satellite imagery showing this on Thursday. “The satellite images released today provide additional evidence that Russian combat soldiers, equipped with sophisticated heavy weaponry, are operating inside Ukraine’s sovereign territory,” NATO Brigadier General Nico Tak said. Despite this, no one seems to want to call what is going on in Ukraine an invasion.
Mac, yellow streak, daddy at his finest.
Obama went silent on Ukraine weeks ago.
Some say it is because he doesn’t give a Sch—.
Other say it’s because the whole UK gov nightmare is horrible imagery Dems don’t want to be associated with in the run-up to a tough election.
I tend to think Obama’s FSB file somehow got “leaked” to him.
“Simply undocumented border crossings in search of a better life.”
Tough to whine about illegal border crossings in Ukraine, when you are promoting it at home.
Well this fits with the WH refusal to call ISIS a “direct threat to the United States” and “what emails?”
This administration simply and stubbornly flat-out refuses to deal with reality.
The administration has a flexible vocabulary. Since the last election.
You know you can't trust those war-mongers at NATO, so quick on the trigger and eager to go to war. /sarc
How nice of Putin to wait to invade Ukraine until AFTER Obama is back from his golf vacation. Obama approves of Putin’s invasion 100%.
You really think it would have made a difference? Obama can sign a sternly worded memo between holes.
An AP story said....
“Russian troops in Ukraine making contact with Ukraine army resulting in casualties”
Hey AP... there is a word for that
The United States, the Ukraine, the areas around Syria Iraq and that region are all being occupied.
What could go wrong?
Obama’s snooze alarm is set on defeat. Don’t wake him until it’s total.
Simply undocumented border crossings in search of a better life.
An act of love.
is anyone watching the UN discuss this?
The US representative is speaking right now
What is NATO doing? Releasing disputable satellite imagery?
No one in the Kremlin is doing anything but scoffing.
Russia has the veto.
The Security Council will take no action.
NATO could
“illegally seizes territory .... in neighboring countries”
sounds like invasion to me
Little did we know that the “reset” button meant resetting to the USSR.
The US rep made a pretty good bashing of Russia though
It won’t.
Obama is not about to open a two front war.
My favorite jibe to liberals is he’s doing in Iraq exactly what Bush did.
Now its time for them to sit down and shut up.
They can blame ISIS, illegal aliens, Israel, etc.
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