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2014-03-07 Europe

Crimea votes to join Russia, Obama orders sanctions

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Posted by Fred 2014-03-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 [PEACHES-N-HERB "REUNITED" 1970'S SONG here].

Winner = Putin.

* See also RELATED WORLD NEWS > [Stars-n-Stripes] OBAMA SAYS CRIMEAN SECESSION WOULD VIOLATE INTERNATIONAL LAW [ + Ukrainian Constitution].

and

* SAME > [Khaleej Times] CRIMEA SAYS PART OF RUSSIA, UKRAINIAN TROOPS ARE "OCCUPIERS".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-03-07 01:37|| 2014-03-07 01:37|| Front Page Top

#2 If the crimean people vote to join russia let them go.We have more problems to worry about!

Posted by Paul D 2014-03-07 04:39|| 2014-03-07 04:39|| Front Page Top

#3 I can hardly wait to see what form Russian retaliation will take.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-03-07 07:49|| 2014-03-07 07:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Russia says it will retaliate if sanctions are put in place? Wait, we're the ones retaliating.

Posted by Jan 2014-03-07 10:06|| 2014-03-07 10:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Obama's inactions, despite being warned in 2009 that this might happen, has basically stuck him, and the US, in a spot where all we can do is agree to what Putin is doing. Obama had no contingency plans in place, and was completely oblivious to the signs that this was going to be a problem that were evident months ago. That is, evident to anyone that was paying attention - as opposed to screwing up healthcare, using the IRS to target your domestic enemies list, and playing golf and more golf, sending your dogfaced wife on multiple vacations., etc.

Obama is the most corrupt, inept and dangerously incompetent fool we have had in office. And yet the press continues to bury anything that puts him in a bad light, so the low information voters out there go blindly forth, voting for him and his ilk.

Thanks to Obama, our nation has become nothing more than powerless fools with no ability to act militarily or diplomatically, in many areas that will have international repercussions for us and for the world.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-03-07 10:18|| 2014-03-07 10:18|| Front Page Top

#6 "Thanks to Obama, our nation has become nothing more than powerless fools... "

Thanks to good ol'[Sorry - the exchange rate for Canadian prog-troll commentary does not permit full posting.]

Posted by Jerkface Killa 2014-03-07 11:36|| 2014-03-07 11:36|| Front Page Top

#7 You must be referring to the over 500 chemical weapons found in Iraq? Keep up the lies there Gomer.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-03-07 11:45|| 2014-03-07 11:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Obama just announced that Crimia would get a waiver on Obamacare until 2016. But no waiver for Ukraine.

Posted by Airandee 2014-03-07 12:16|| 2014-03-07 12:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Thanks to Obama, our nation has become nothing more than powerless fools with no ability to act militarily or diplomatically, in many areas that will have international repercussions for us and for the world.

Fundamental change. Check!

Posted by Jeremiah Peacock5068 2014-03-07 12:17|| 2014-03-07 12:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Obama also held a one-hour call on Thursday with Russian President Vladimir Putin

I guess getting the instructions on how to keep up the appearance of opposing Russia while he blocks drilling, shuts down coal plants and blocks the ability to buy oil or gas from non-crazy people in Canada.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-03-07 13:57|| 2014-03-07 13:57|| Front Page Top

#11 (Or less crazy people in Canada. Or maybe just the sort of crazy we can live with.)

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-03-07 13:57|| 2014-03-07 13:57|| Front Page Top

#12 The multiple convoys of Iraqi Army vehicles moving from munitions storage locations to Syria, must have escaped the notice of Jerkoff Spiller...

Posted by NoMoreBS 2014-03-07 14:30|| 2014-03-07 14:30|| Front Page Top

#13 sanctions..including bans on travel to the United States

We'll show those commie sumbitches. We'll make them fly COACH! BWAHAHAHA.

Or should that be ex-commie sumbitches? The thought occurs that our current Prez is further to the left than the leader of Russia.

Posted by SteveS 2014-03-07 14:31|| 2014-03-07 14:31|| Front Page Top

#14 Usually incompetent presidents have competent puppetmasters. In this case, it's clowns all the way up and clowns all the way down.

Posted by KBK 2014-03-07 15:38|| 2014-03-07 15:38|| Front Page Top

#15 De latest ... ...

* TOPIX > TYMONSHENKO WARNS OF GUERILLA WAR [agz Russia + Crimean Govt] OVER CRIMEA.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > CHINA TO RUSSIA: YOU'RE PUTTING US IN A TIGHT SPOT - YAHOO NEWS.

Again, either "post-US", "Mahanist", Globalist-desired "OWG Co-Superpower", etc. Rising China acts like its perceived Manifest Destiny requires, or it does not.

* Also from TOPIX > [Sacramento Bee] MICHAEL GERSON: OBAMA HAS A FOREIGN POLICY, BUT ITS WRONG.

The Bammer apparently believes that Fairies-n-Chocolate, etc. will fill the void as Amer unilaterally voluntarily, but oh so PCorrectly-Deniably, GEOPOL RETREATS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-03-07 19:18|| 2014-03-07 19:18|| Front Page Top

#16 As per CNN, the good news for Russia is that Putin may had actually had hair when he allegedly met POTUS Reagan [shook hands?] back in 1988.

lol.

More ... ...

* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > CRIMEA IGNORES UKRAINAIN PRESIDENT'S ORDER TO STOP SECESSION VOTE | RIA NOVOSTI.

* GUARDIAN.UK > CRIMEAN NOW PART OF RUSSIA, LOCAL PARLIAMENT DECLARES.

RELATED TOPIX, GROONG > CRIMEA GOVT: ONLY "LEGAL" FOREIGN TROOPS ON CRIMEAN SOIL ARE RUSSIAN.

* TOPIX > PUTIN'S GREAT GAME AGZ WEST [US-NATO/EU],SURGING MUSLIM POWERS IN CRIMEA.

RELATED SAME, WORLD NEWS = ... ...

> RUSSIA FEARS RISE OF ISLAMISM IN WEST, NOT UKRAINE INDEPENDENCE.
> UKRAINE/CRIMEA CRISIS A COVER FOR LARGER RUSSIAN FEAR?
> RUSSIA TODAY > TURKEY SCRAMBLES JETS AGAIN AFTER RUSSIAN SURVEILLIANCE PLANE TRACKED NEAR EAST COAST.

Ostensibly agz TURKEY = US-NATO/EU ALLY, but IMO more to TURKEY = "NEO-OTTOMAN" TURKEY CURREN SUFFERING UNDER INTENSE RADICAL ISLAMIST DOMESIC PRESSURE???

Lest we fergit, the above is aka OWG Caliphate-happy, Soon-to-be-Nukulaar Islam/Islamism.

versus

* TOPIX > [Ria Novosti] CRIMEAN TATAR MINORITY TO BOYCOTT SECESSION VOTE.

* SAME > UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT INTRODUCES BILL TO JOIN NATO.

* SAME > CHINA [steadily] LOSING GEOPOLITICAL CREDIBILITY DURING UKRAINE CRISIS.

* GROONG > EXPERTS: UKRAINE IS A STATE, BUT IS NOT YET A NATION, UKRAINE CAN NEVER PROSPER WIDOUT RUSSIA.

* Also from GROONG ...
> THE CLASH IN CRIMEA IS THE FRUIT OF WESTERN EXPANSIONISM.
> UKRAINE HAS REVEALED THE NEW WORLD OF WESTERN IMPOTENCE. Ditto "incompetence"???
> TURKEY GAVE [Security = MilPol?] GUARANTEES TO CRIMEAN TATARS - TATAR LEADER.
> TURKEY STRENGTHENED BY POWER-PLAY IN CRIMEA.
> EXPERT: RUSSIA'S MILITARY POSITION IN BALCK SEA REGION NOT STRONG VIS-A-VIS-TURKEY.

versus

* TOPIX > SEVEN REASONS WHY THE US WILL NEVER GO TO WAR OVER UKRAINE.

* SAME > IS THE US SEEKING A REPLACEMENT FOR TURKEY?

Rising Iran = OWG "Co-Superpower" Iran???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-03-07 23:05|| 2014-03-07 23:05|| Front Page Top

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