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| Obama: 'Russia Doesn't Make Anything' |
| 2014-08-04 |
| Russia is the world's third-largest oil producer and second-largest natural gas producer. Europe relies heavily on Russian energy exports, complicating the West's response to the Ukraine crisis. Obama downplayed Moscow's role in the world, dismissing President Vladimir Putin as a leader causing short-term trouble for political gain that will hurt Russia in the long term. Projection much? Obama described U.S. tensions with China as "manageable." Obamaspeak for "We'll just pass it along to the next President." |
| Posted by:Flogum Ulomonter9123 |
| #15 Obama FIFY |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2014-08-04 20:45 |
| #14 Obama would be the first to run if things go bad. |
| Posted by: Dale 2014-08-04 20:24 |
| #13 Trust me when I say, those of us who make stuff (or more lately, just try to) in the United States have caught seven different kinds of hell from Obama. As I keep pointing out, it's why Russia has been able to do stuff like dismember Ukraine in recent years. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-08-04 19:28 |
| #12 Doesn't make anything? They seem to be making mincemeat out of a certain ex-community organizer who is having trouble running with the big dogs. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-08-04 13:08 |
| #11 Obama thinks Russia is weak and not particularly valuable as a US trading partner so he slaps sanctions on them when they get out of line. The Europeans might have a little more at stake but Obama doesn't care about them because he wants to look macho and Putin makes him look like the sissy he is. But he gives China a pass for all kinds of human rights violations and atrocities including North Korea's nuclear program. The Chinese persecute Christians, imprison political dissenters, bully and threaten their neighbors and Obama says nothing. That's because China sells us all kinds of plastic crap and buys our T bills. I call that hypocrisy. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-08-04 12:26 |
| #10 The total russian debt is 228 billion dollars; about 1/4 of obama's yearly deficit. Putin knows Obama and America are morally, politically, and financially bankrupt. Putin does not have to build anything he only has to wait until USA walks away and he will buy whatever the USA built for pennies on the dollar. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2014-08-04 06:56 |
| #9 |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-08-04 05:23 |
| #8 They also make the Soyuez manned vehicles, the only way for our folks to come home. Russians do not re-invent the wheel they make it bigger and stronger, but it is still a wheel and works just fine. |
| Posted by: Creath Snomonter4029 2014-08-04 03:02 |
| #7 Taken collectively, IMO all the changes occurring in East Asia may cause China to prioritize expansion to the "Second Island Chain", as opposed to only the "First". |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-08-04 02:53 |
| #6 Obama is a first class idiot. A narcissist. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-08-04 02:40 |
| #5 They make quality Twitter posts. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2014-08-04 00:52 |
| #4 Russia makes the engines in the Atlas rockets! That's pretty damn important to the US gov! |
| Posted by: 3dc 2014-08-04 00:47 |
| #3 Russia makes Obean look like the amateur he is. Does that count? |
| Posted by: gorb 2014-08-04 00:45 |
| #2 I wonder where things come from? |
| Posted by: Fred 2014-08-04 00:45 |
| #1 According to him, Americans "didn't make that" either. |
| Posted by: Thineng Angailet7166 2014-08-04 00:30 |