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| B.O. warns of tougher Russia sanctions |
| 2014-05-03 |
| [The Peninsula] The US threatened yesterday to hit Russia with devastating new sanctions within three weeks if it continued its "destabilisation" of Ukraine, where authorities struck pro-Moscow rebels and violence spread to the south in the bloodiest day since Kiev's Western-backed government took power. Thirty-eight people died in an arson attack against a trade union building in Ukraine's southern city of Odessa, after a day of violent festivities between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian murderous Moslems, according to officials. Ukraine's interior ministry, which spoke of a "criminal arson attack", said 30 of those killed were asphyxiated by smoke and eight died trying to escape by jumping out of windows. Intensifying the war of words that has characterised the months-long crisis, Obama threatened to expand punitive sanctions to broad sections of the Russian economy if Moscow continued to foment chaos in the former Soviet Republic ahead of planned May 25 presidential elections. "If in fact we see the disruptions and the destabilisation continuing so severely that it impedes elections on May 25, we will not have a choice but to move forward with additional... severe sanctions," Obama said at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... . "If Russia continues on its current course, we have a range of tools at our disposal, including sanctions that would target certain sectors of the Russian economy," Obama said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #15 Now go away before I taunt you a second time. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-05-03 23:21 |
| #14 Gonna set another "Red Line". |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2014-05-03 19:38 |
| #13 My Chihuahua resents being compared to Obama. |
| Posted by: bman 2014-05-03 16:31 |
| #12 If one was so Byzantine in mind, one might suppose that this is just Kabuki theater for the masses and the BO-Putin 'more maneuver room' program is to reestablish the old lines of territorial demarcation between autocrats. Pretty much, that's what I think's going on. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-05-03 15:19 |
| #11 The rule of law only works when the participants are willing to let the laws rule. Putin is not such a person. Neither is Obama, although in a difference, more craven fashion. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-05-03 11:06 |
| #10 The Champ could give a damn 'on a good day' about a bunch of Russians, let alone at a time when his entire presidency is crumbling. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-05-03 10:32 |
| #9 Warns of tougher Russia sanctions.... Right, Ah Hum .... Don't look behind you... |
| Posted by: Fat Bob Noluck 2014-05-03 10:27 |
| #8 Matt, watch NetFlix bow-up and spit back. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-05-03 09:53 |
| #7 BTW, for someone who has no use for the 'rule of law' in the unending pursuit of power, how hard is it to grasp that such rituals have no effect on someone else so inclined? If one was so Byzantine in mind, one might suppose that this is just Kabuki theater for the masses and the BO-Putin 'more maneuver room' program is to reestablish the old lines of territorial demarcation between autocrats. How did that old Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact work out for everyone? |
| Posted by: P2kontheroad 2014-05-03 08:40 |
| #6 Because 'sanctions' have worked so well with the Norks. |
| Posted by: P2kontheroad 2014-05-03 08:33 |
| #5 He's going to cancel Putin's Netflix subscription. |
| Posted by: Matt 2014-05-03 07:51 |
#4  B.O. warnings....what could they mean ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-05-03 05:04 |
| #3 * GROONG > [ICH.com] KERRY WARNS OF "HOT CONFRONTATION" [possibly NUCLEAR] BY US AGZ RUSSIA, even iff Russian troops do or do NOT invade Ukraine. * SAME > [Iragir.com] MOSCOW WILL BE A FRONT-LINE CITY. ARTIC = Ex-Cold War Superpower Russia may have to face increasingly potent Asian, Islamic interests, either separately or in joint, while an isolated + marginal nation. Yuuup. THE ABOVE IS YET ANOTHER ARTIC IN SUPPORT OFN WHY I SAY THE US-ALLIES = WEST SHOULD NOT + CANNOT BE TOO HARSH AGZ PUTIN + RUSSIA OVER THE CRIMEA. The US-West will not only be empowering or inspiring NUCLEAR ISLAM, but NUCLEAR ISLAMIC RADICALISM + NUKE-LED UNILATERAL ISLAMIC MILPOL'GEOPOL AGGRESSIONISM OVER-N-BEYOND WHAT "MODERATE" OR EXTERMIST ANTI-US OWG GLOBALISTS CAN CONTROL. THE ENTIRE JUDEOCHRISTIAN WORLD WILL BE AT EXISTENTIAL RISK OF DE FACTO ANNIHILATION. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-05-03 01:50 |
| #2 If Brezinzki has jumped in, is that de-facto evidence that we are on the wrong side? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-05-03 01:45 |
| #1 See also VOICE OF RUSSIA > BRZEZINSKI URGES OBAMA TO DELIVER WEAPONS TO UKRAINE. "ZIGGY" enters the fray. and * BIGNEWSNETWORK > US COULD REACT IMMEDIATELY IFF RUSSIA INVADED UKRAINE, SAYS AMERICAN AMBASSADOR. * VOICE OF RUSSIA > NATO SHIPS ARRIVE IN LITHUANIA, LATVIAN PM WANTS US TROOPS PERMAMNETLY BASED IN HIS COUNTRY. ROMANIA wants the USN to base, deploy Warships in the Black sea. versus * TOPIX > [CNN.com] OBAMA A "LAME DUCK" FOR 33 MONTHS? Iff true, 'TIS JUST GOOD ANTI-US [US?] "GLOBALISM"??? * WORLD NEWS > [RIA] CHOMSKY: US SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR GITMO [Guantanamo Bay, Cuba] ANNEXATION, back in 1903. US + Gitmo 1903 [Caribbean, Panama Canal security] = Putin-Russia + Crimea 2014 [Black Sea, Bosphorus Straits security]. MEXICO + LATIN AMERICA = TURKEY + IRAN??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-05-03 01:29 |