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2016-12-31 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Putin refuses to expel US diplomats and instead invites them to Kremlin party

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Posted by Fred 2016-12-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 When was the last time you thought of the Russians as the adults in the room? I get the feeling we're not in Cold War Kansas anymore.

Posted by SteveS 2016-12-31 00:52|| 2016-12-31 00:52|| Front Page Top

#2 “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” ― Napoléon Bonaparte

Posted by magpie 2016-12-31 01:02|| 2016-12-31 01:02|| Front Page Top

#3 It's a classic troll, something I would expect from trump.

Posted by newc 2016-12-31 01:09|| 2016-12-31 01:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Russian view of Obama?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-12-31 03:36|| 2016-12-31 03:36|| Front Page Top

#5 "I expect cynicism in Washington. But it usually is combined with a lot of knowledge — as with, say, Henry Kissinger. To be cynical and ignorant and to spin those two things into a virtue? That’s industrial-strength hubris. Kind of like what got us into Iraq, in fact.

"Rhodes and others around Obama keep on talking about doing all this novel thinking, playing from a new playbook, bucking the establishment thinking. But if that is the case, why have they given so much foreign policy power to two career hacks who never have had an original thought? I mean, of course, Joe Biden and John Kerry. I guess the answer can only be that those two are puppets, and (as in Biden’s case) are given losing propositions like Iraq to handle.

"Obama’s hasn’t been an original foreign policy as much as it has been a politicized foreign policy. And this Rhodes guy reminds me of the Kennedy smart guys who helped get us into the Vietnam War. Does he know how awful he sounds? Kind of like McGeorge Bundy meets Lee Atwater."

Posted by Pappy 2016-12-31 10:57|| 2016-12-31 10:57|| Front Page Top

#6 great catch, Pappy

Posted by Frank G 2016-12-31 11:25|| 2016-12-31 11:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Just a word to the happy partygoers: all parties in Russia are BYOB, hint nint, nudge nudge.

Posted by ed in texas 2016-12-31 11:57|| 2016-12-31 11:57|| Front Page Top

#8 And nothing with ice, Ed.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-12-31 13:41|| 2016-12-31 13:41|| Front Page Top

#9 ROFLMAO, #4 grom! :-D

Posted by Barbara 2016-12-31 13:51|| 2016-12-31 13:51|| Front Page Top

#10 Uh, Methinks the Russians, i.e., Vlad have been the adult in the room for about eight years.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2016-12-31 15:20|| 2016-12-31 15:20|| Front Page Top

#11 And coat thy stomach with bread and butter post haste.

Posted by Shipman 2016-12-31 18:05|| 2016-12-31 18:05|| Front Page Top

#12 And remember that the bread, crackers, and bowls of caviar are there for a reason. One of my favorite photos is of a Russian after the night before knocking back a shot of vodka and eating caviar out of a tub.

Posted by Jeasing Creque5352 2016-12-31 23:07|| 2016-12-31 23:07|| Front Page Top

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