Sunday, March 02, 2014

Kerry the Ass-Clown- Sitting in a Tree ...





      

    
U.S. Spies Said No Russian Invasion of Ukraine—Putin Disagreed


The Daily Beast has an important scoop on the US Intelligence failure on Ukraine, read it all. Here is the key paragraph: Despite Russia placing 150,000 troops near Ukraine, John Kerry’s team didn’t think Putin would invade Ukraine because Putin’s people said they wouldn’t.

“There was good reason to think Putin wouldn’t do it. Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov told Secretary of State John Kerry that Russia respected the territorial integrity of the Ukraine. U.S. intelligence assessments concluded that the 150,000-man Russian military exercises announced by Putin on Wednesday were not preparations for an invasion of Ukraine because no medical units accompanied the troops. And Russian and U.S. diplomats were still working on Iran and Syrian diplomacy. All of this followed a successful Winter Olympic games for Putin’s Russia.” [Full]

Mann Act

Previously

"After the Russian army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence – the kind of response that would only encourage Russia's Putin to invade Ukraine next." Sarah Palin, Reno, Nevada on October 21, 2008.

Foreign Policy labeled Palin's prediction as "strange."


11 comments:

Anonymous said...

...no medical units accompanied the troops...
Stalin's army cleared minefields by marching a battalion over it.
Stalin's army set the armies of two field marshalls against one another to conquer Berlin.
Medical units? We are on the offensive. Don't bother me with baggage.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick

leelu said...

Wonder how those two poofters like being lied to(for a change)... on the world stage?

Anonymous said...

i can see the american empire's interest in the ukraine. i don't see the american republic's interest to meddle. washington was right about entangling aliances. just say no.

nb: at least putin asked his government for permission to start a war. whould our own emperors do the same?

iri said...

America doesn't have an empire. We have interests. I say no as well but obviously for different reasons unless that was a slip of the tongue and you're really not one of those anti-imperialists we hear so much from on the Left.

Putin doesn't have a government, Putin is the government. Our government is temporarily out of order so we don't actually have a government either but at least we have a touchstone in the Constitution for the reformation of government. Putin doesn't have to worry about that as his ambitions are the Russian touchstone.

Putin is unlikely to live out his term once the full realization of what he's done sinks in to the enemies that surround him. I'd say the same about Obama but this is a Christian nation.

The pro Putin comments I see across the net makes me want to puke. The US should stay out of this only because no matter what we do we help Putin. Obama should have kept his stupid mouth shut.



Skoonj said...

Ukraine is, in my opinion, Obama’s laboratory. The people of Ukraine were beset by a dictator who was taking the people where they didn’t want to go. Taking their freedoms away, a little at a time. Obama knew the Russians would invade, as they have. That is what he is studying.

Obama understands how little support he has, especially for Obamacare. In the next year or two, as millions more lose health insurance, as thousands and tens of thousands lose treatment for life threatening illnesses, at some point he expects open resistance. Armed resistance. Obama wants to see just how to suppress that resistance in the simplest, easiest, and quickest means possible. That’s why the Russians are so helpful to him.

Obama acted like it was all a surprise to him and his administration. It wasn’t. And he isn’t doing a thing that would cause the Russians to cease operations, or even wonder if they will face any effective action. They won’t. Obama is studying this laboratory experiment so he may apply the lessons here.

Jess said...

John "Whistleweeinie" Kerry's team is probably hand picked, ass-kissing, no-threat, pretty boys that believe in the Easter Bunny.


We don't have a State Department, just like we don't have anyone in Washington D.C. that isn't a money-grubbing, puke shit, thieving, political hack.

MAX Redline said...

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Obama ought to “stop going on television and trying to threaten thugs and dictators…. Every time the president goes on national television and threatens Putin or anyone like Putin, everybody's eyes roll, including mine. We have a weak and indecisive president that invites aggression.”

Thus far, no shots fired, and the Black Sea Fleet base that Russia's been renting from Ukraine since the USSR splitup is secure. On the other hand, there are a lot of Russians in the south of Ukraine, and if the KGB guy figgers they need the Motherland's protection, you can bet troops'll be movin' south.

Besides, what's Soetero gonna do? Unfriend Putin of Facebook?

Snackeater said...

Not sure why 0bama would want to observe Putin's tactics--unlike the US, the people of the Ukraine have been effectively disarmed. And unlike the US, Putin can use his military to crush any opposition. I don't think the military in this country would participate.

The real problem here is that we allowed ourselves to get to the place where Putin felt safe in attempting such a move. We can't fight every war everywhere--that's why we needed to keep up the appearance of strength and resolve, and we haven't.

It's not just the US government that appears weak and indecisive. After we reelected 0bama, the world assumed the American people were the same way. It was only a matter of time before someone challenged us. It's going to be a long three years.

Snackeater said...

And is anyone familiar with the Budapest Memorandum? Google it--it's a very interesting read.

Wabano said...

Vlad Stalinovitch is supported by China…who expect Russia will be greatly weakened by this confrontation with Europe and America. Now there’s this eastern Siberia, being slowly invaded by Chinese nationals. Who’s going to stop the chingchangchongs to pull a Crimea on the Russians?…this part of the world is militarily indefensible, just like the Ukraine.
Ahhh…The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (大東亜共栄圏 Dai-tō-a Kyōeiken) will soon be back with us!
Same odds, really, as between Russia and Ukraine.
The Mudaks are in turn dwarfed by the monstrous might of the PLA

Lergnom said...

I've thought for a while that, with the alliances real and coerced between the various Eastern nations being fomented by China and the Norks, the The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere will most likely expand into Greater Pan-Asia.

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