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2014-03-02 Europe

Obama Meets National Security Team on Ukraine Options

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Posted by Fred 2014-03-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 I anticipate economic sanctions, which will hurt the West more than Russia. Russia's raw material exports will flow toward China displacing existing supply which will redirect toward the West with additional costs.

For example, Australian LNG will head to Europe a much longer trip.

Posted by phil_b 2014-03-02 01:23|| 2014-03-02 01:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Expect a crisis in US-Israel relations---well, you gotta take out our frustrations on somebody.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-03-02 05:37|| 2014-03-02 05:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Obama is clueless. He's looking for the doorknob in the dark.

Obama won't fight and the American people can go back to sleep and dream about "free stuff".

Posted by Spereting Tingle4064 2014-03-02 06:35|| 2014-03-02 06:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Obama's major work/accomplishment on this matter is complete; he stood in front of a TelePrompTer and read someone else's speech.

Make room on the Whitehouse mantel for Nobel prize number 2.

Posted by Airandee 2014-03-02 08:12|| 2014-03-02 08:12|| Front Page Top

#5 ..Nero has traded his violin for a putter..

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-03-02 11:26|| 2014-03-02 11:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Uncle Phester gets the prize.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-03-02 11:52|| 2014-03-02 11:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Um, no. He skipped the meeting and got a debrief from a delegation consisting of Susan Rice and a select few.

You got the Vice President playing the 'leader', SecState mumbling a few words, and SecDef, until this morning, getting his calls unreturned.

It's not that the President is clueless. It's that it's unimportant.

Posted by Pappy 2014-03-02 15:17|| 2014-03-02 15:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Ukraine Options

(a) Start WWIII.
(b) Tell Putin not to be such a bitch.
(c) Have Michelle issue a statement condemning traditional Ukrainian food as unhealthy.
(d) Find a Jewish connection.

What did I miss?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-03-02 17:20|| 2014-03-02 17:20|| Front Page Top

#9 How Likely Is American Intervention in Ukraine? <LINK>

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-03-02 17:59|| 2014-03-02 17:59|| Front Page Top

#10 grom,

you forgot having Kerry hit the Russian Foreign Secretary with his purse.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-03-02 18:08|| 2014-03-02 18:08|| Front Page Top

#11 What did you miss?

e) on the parts of Germany and the US: stop replacing coal plants with natural gas, reopen them if necessary. On the part of Germany this might mean rebuilding some plants, and using local coal. In short, review and reconsider their commitment to all the policies put in place by the idiot Tranzi Prime Minister who went on to go to work for Gazprom. On the part of the US: stop nickel-and-diming the coal industry, and the oil industry, use natural gas to replace imported oil instead of imported coal, and actually build export terminals.

f) on the part of France: stop selling Putin weapons.

Russia's primary source of income is selling Europe natural gas it doesn't really need but buys because of the artificially created delusion that Coal Is Going To Destroy the Earth.

And the electronics and night vision in the more-up-to-date tanks they have are all French. And should I mention the two light carriers the French are building for them?

In short, Germany and France need to stop surrendering the Rhineland industries to Russia. And get an economy besides being a reseller for Gazprom.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-03-02 18:32|| 2014-03-02 18:32|| Front Page Top

#12 Could this Ukrainian thing be the diversion/trigger Champ needs to start martial law?

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-03-02 19:01|| 2014-03-02 19:01|| Front Page Top

#13 No, O Wearer of De Tinne Foile.

There's no domestic bad guys involved.

Posted by Pappy 2014-03-02 20:06|| 2014-03-02 20:06|| Front Page Top

#14 No domestic angle to it, which is why Obama has completely ignored this since he was first warned in 2009, and why he went golfing instead of dealing with it. He doesn't care if he bungles foreign affairs because he is focused on power grabbing in the US.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-03-02 21:36|| 2014-03-02 21:36|| Front Page Top

#15 "It's not that the President is clueless. It's that it's unimportant."

No reason it can't be both, Pappy.

Posted by Barbara 2014-03-02 21:46|| 2014-03-02 21:46|| Front Page Top

#16 BTW I understand that sizeable portions of Europe are candidates for fracking. That would really put a stick in Russia's spokes.

Posted by tipover 2014-03-02 23:12|| 2014-03-02 23:12|| Front Page Top

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