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Kerry warns Russia of more sanctions if no progress on Ukraine
2014-04-18
[Beirut Daily Star] US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Russia Thursday that if there was no progress in de-escalating the crisis in Ukraine, there would be more sanctions imposed on Moscow.

"If we don't see progress... there will be additional sanctions, additional costs," he told reporters after reaching an agreement in Geneva with his Russian, Ukrainian and EU counterparts.
Maybe even a strongly-worded letter.
Posted by:Fred

#8  See also TOPIX > [Town Hall] OBAMA MUST DEFEND NATO "RED LINES" AGZ PUTIN AGGRESSION.

Thus, of course, ... ...

* TOPIX, WORLD NEWS, FREEREPUBLIC > OBAMA: NO [US] MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN UKRAINE.

Senkakus = East China Sea? South China Sea? Guam-WESTPAC? Hawaii"

The Marines can't land on hostile shores because they might get shot at, + it might hurt the enemy's feelings + hurt the US' ability to massively bond-borrow [again] from same.

versus

* FREEREPUBLIC, DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS [Video] > PUTIN JOKES ALASKA IS TOO COLD TO ANNEX.

OTOH Vlad also wanted to know why CONUS = Lower 48 needed a state like Alaska up in the cold of the distant northern or Arctic latitudes, as opposed to more properly a country like Russia whose sovereign territories is right next to the Arctic = North Pole???

Huh, huh, huh!

Yeah, Amerika, D *** NG IT!

Got another bad feeling about the "legalism" of this one.

* WORLD NEWS > [WaPo] PUTIN CHANGES COURSE, ADMITS RUSSIAN TROOPS WERE IN CRIMEA BEFORE VOTE.

By this scope, this means the Motherly PLA Airborne + SPECOPS will be on the ground in Guam-WESTPAC [Hawaii?] long before Obama gave us away in the name of righteous OWG Globalist Co-Superpower-ism + paying off the Trilyuhns-n-Dilyuhns of current-n-future US Debt; + before the PLA Airborne formally attacked Guam + Hawaii en masse???

* TOPIX > [Army Times] US ARMY [US Army, EUROPE], NATIONAL GUARD READY TO LEVERAGE, EXPAND EASTERN EUROPE ALLIANCES.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2014-04-18 22:46  

#7  Only an analyst asleep at the wheel.

Doesn't take much analysis when the people receiving the reports ignore them because of a fallacious if not fantasy view of the world. These are the same people who ignore empirical data and choose to keep pushing a warming theory that somehow has failed in its predictive models. They think they're smarter than reality.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-04-18 18:38  

#6  Kerry is not fooling around this time. With his Heinz connections, he could totally shut down ketchup exports to the entire Russian Federation.
Posted by: SteveS   2014-04-18 15:32  

#5  Slobbering ABC article of the Hildebeast stepping down as Secretary of State.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-04-18 08:29  

#4  The Ukraine has been moving closer to the EU since it's break-away from the FSU in 1991. Putin has been watching and making threats [cut off of natural gas] as far back as 2010. With Putin's heavy had in Georgia and other FSU break aways, what strategic intelligence analyst could have predicted a Ukrainian row? Only an analyst asleep at the wheel.

Fast forward to Feb 2013 and the stepping down of the Hildebeast as Secretary of State. Useful idiot and hand wringer Kerry stumbles into the breach.

Nicely played ek se.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-04-18 08:27  

#3  Is this another "Red Line"?

Maybe more of a pastel pink?

Drawn in invisible ink?

What difference does it make?
Posted by: AlanC   2014-04-18 07:57  

#2  Maybe even a strongly-worded letter

To be placed in a museum?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-04-18 03:47  

#1  More Sanctions, Why, the Sanctions din't work.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2014-04-18 01:29  

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