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US Warns Russia Over "Provocative" Actions In Ukraine

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As today's actions by Russia have raised concerns and stirred flight-to-safety flows in the markets, The White House has decided to add its $0.02 worth:

  • *OBAMA AIDE EARNEST URGES 'OUTSIDE ACTORS' TO RESPECT UKRAINE TERRITORY
  • *EARNEST SAYS RUSSIA SHOULD AVOID `PROVOCATIVE' ACTIONS
  • *U.S. WARNS RUSSIA TO RESPECT UKRAINE SOVEREIGNTY

Or else...? On the bright side, he did not say anything about crossed lines of color.

Via AP,

The White House is urging "outside actors" to respect Ukraine's sovereignty, as neighboring Russia prepares for massive military exercises.

 

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the U.S. is aware of Russia's plans to launch the military maneuvers. While Russian officials said the exercises were unrelated to the tensions in Ukraine, these exercise will take place near the shared border between the countries.

 

Without specifically mentioning Russia, Earnest also called on others in the region to end "provocative rhetoric and actions."

 

Russia has questioned the legitimacy of Ukraine's acting government, which took charge after pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych fled after signing an agreement aimed at ending his country's three-month political crisis.

 

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Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:44 | 4481377 Pure Evil
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Well, at least you're doing better than us.

With women in combat and the Armed Forces gearing up for gay pride parades, who wouldn't want to serve in the US Armed Forces.

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:05 | 4481176 Sandmann
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The USSA is on a roll......piss off India, China and Russia and alienate Europeans with the Big Brother spying.....and all you are left with is a few puppets in government.

China and Russia can build a combined force so when the USSA overplays its hand it can lose Atlanta, San Francisco, Boston, Portland in a mass attack.

Maybe these countries are out of control but I fail to se the value of democracy when the mental cases running these states are no longer accountable to voters and citizens. The US is a real monarchy run along the lines of Louis XIV

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:06 | 4481180 Catullus
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Hands off Russia. That band of thugs running around the streets of Kiev beating up anyone who doesn't want to join the EU is exercising their sovereignty

Also please don't request that eastern Ukraine vote to join Russia.

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:07 | 4481186 Johnny Cocknballs
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The united states has killed well over a million people in the past decade, and along with the "only democracy in th eMiddle East" has made a custom of completely disregarding the sovereignty of other countries, UN resolutions, international law, treaty obligations, and the very idea of diplomacy.  It has engaged in false flags, supported, armed and trained what are unequivocally terrorist groups, and treated the basic human rights, let alone Constitutional ones {in the US, anyway} with utter contempt.

|: The United States government can go right ahead and fuck itself.

 

I hope NATO is comfortable not having air superiority on this one.

 

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:25 | 4481291 Son of Captain Nemo
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It already has.  Way "past tense"...

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:53 | 4481421 general ambivalent
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Try well over a million in the past few months.

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:07 | 4481190 jubber
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Is this why we are at record highs then?

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:08 | 4481197 pot_and_kettle
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Oh my goodness, the comprehensive and vigorous assfucking that awaits the US administration....

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 19:59 | 4482606 Berspankme
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Obama likes a vigourous assfucking from Reggie- not sure about one from Vladdy

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:09 | 4481200 Johnny Cocknballs
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Let's see what ole' Mike Rivero has to say on his show right now:

http://whatreallyhappened.com/

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:56 | 4481401 Volkodav
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RBN been hacked...

 

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:12 | 4481221 Lin S
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This is the sort of arrogant, sociopathic hubris that results from the unchallenged atrocities committed by NATO against Serbia.

The ugly truth is that NATO/EU is the foul, mutant synthesis of the Holy Roman Empire intersecting with the Third Reich.  It is Satanic to the core.

 

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 16:29 | 4481618 pot_and_kettle
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+1000 if I could.

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 16:34 | 4481664 TPTB_r_TBTF
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Stop giving Satan such a bad rap.

How many people did Satan kill (in the Bible) and how many people did the Jewish God kill (in the Bible)?

 

The Modern Holy Empire of the Fourth Reich is being led by Yaweh worshipers.

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:15 | 4481232 Tracerfan
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The U.S. engaged in provocative acts by funding and possibly arming neo-Nazi "protestors" who overthrew the democratically elected President of the country, and who was up for reelection next year, anyways.

That's a provocation

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:19 | 4481256 Inthemix96
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NSA, GCHQ you corrupt fuckers, read these three quotes and think about them.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.  It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.  William Pitt 1783

Everything the state says is a lie.  Nietzsche

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.  I.F.Stone

Let them sink in, and think, just once in your miserable lives, just what you are fighting for.

96

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:22 | 4481275 Jack Burton
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Anyone who believes that the Crimea, where 77% speak Russian and just over 60% are ethnic Russian, is going to come under rule of the revolutionary government in Kiev is totally insane. We all know by now that Crimea was never a part of Ukraine, it was a free gift by a Soviet Ukrainian leader to his republic in the 1950's. That little slight of hand does not make Crimea Ukrainian. I would like to hear anyone's arguement for why Crimea must remain administered by Kiev. Putin and Russia know just what game is being played, NATO's naval base of Savastopol, NATO missile bases with in a few hundred miles of Moscow. Come on, who, other than neocon windbags, think Russia will not go to total war in order to defend itself in this case? Here, neocons and neoliberals, imagine this. Russia will deploy about 250,000 troops to secure the Crimea, if the west and revolutionary government in Kiev attempt to occupy Crimea.

The East and South, the coast all the way to Odessa are also considered by Russia to be as vital as the USA considers Canada. Should Putin annex Canada, would the USA declare war? Yes, of course they would. Some bigger mind than mine, please tell me why you think Russia should allow NATO to annex Crimea and the East and South of Ukraine, populated by majority Russian, or pro Russian people? Please, should Putin obey Obama. Or the USA, whose troops occupy half of the earth. Do you think Putin will not fight? Wake up and accept that the west has taken West Ukraine and be happy, you will never set foot on Crimea or East and South Ukraine, unless you are prepared to go to battle field nuclear weapons.

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:56 | 4481443 Johnny Cocknballs
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Jack, let's cross our fingers that SADMs stay out of the field and that all arrows remain unbroken.

Naturally, I have no idea at all about any of that, but it is my considered opinion that the average person, not being psychopaths, are unable to understand that many in leadership positions really are, and even if they themselves are not violent {in fact psychopaths are not at all nec. violent} in such positions, they naturally have an easier time making decisions you or I would not.

We've gotte very lucky before in "almost midnight" circumstances.  I'm afraid we may have used up most of our luck.

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:57 | 4481447 general ambivalent
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You can't annex Canada, we have snowmobiles, maple syrup, and the Avro Arrow.

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 16:26 | 4481605 denverdolomte
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Best strip club I have ever been to in my life. The Sundowner Inn. 

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 16:08 | 4481510 nonclaim
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"I would like to hear anyone's arguement for why Crimea must remain administered by Kiev."

Don't be such an hypocrite...

Everything was perfect while Putin's lackey imposed himself as dictator but now ... oh why, oh why!

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 16:32 | 4481642 Zwelgje
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Yanu was elected Mr. Bright Light.

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 16:46 | 4481727 nonclaim
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Not to enact laws increasing his own power and steer the country against the will of a significant majority. Nobody expected the outcome, I grant you that, but elections are not a free pass to dictatorship.

[and I don't mind down arrows, they are quite ineffective]

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 17:39 | 4482064 robertocarlos
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That's the way it works in Canada.

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:23 | 4481283 CvlDobd
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Because the U.S. is a great example for respecting other soverign territory.

Fuck you Barry!

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:26 | 4481293 JPMorgan
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UKRAINE SOVEREIGNTY

It's fairly clear to see the IMF and EU want to break into Ukraine.

But Ukraine is already full of duel Russian citizenships and a large number of Ukrainian's that want to be considered Russian.

So I would say Putin holds the trump card here, we will just have to see how he plays his hand.

 

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:37 | 4481312 Tracerfan
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Something to consider:  Belarus.  Opposes the Putsch in Kiev.  Has an integrated and very effective air defense system with Russia.  Has over 1,000 tanks.  Servicemembers are about half Russian in ethnicity.  Belarussians hate Ukrainians, given what Ukrainians did to them in the past, especially Fascist Ukrainians who the EU/US used to take power by force in Kiev.  And a solid marjority of Ukrainians do not support the neo-Nazis who are already trampling on peoples' rights.

Look at a map.  Russia and Belarus could probably take over the parts of Ukraine worth having in the space of a week or two.

Nothing NATO or US can do about it.

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:43 | 4481368 Volkodav
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dup!  notice that no one handing out cookies in Minsk.

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:42 | 4481360 loveyajimbo
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Chakka Caca Obongo just showed his yellow line again... he will be unavailable until Reggie gives him the 10" tranquilizer a few more times...

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:44 | 4481379 L_Conquistador
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An insider tells me that Obama and his advisors are working on a more complicated demarcation:  the red parabola!   Putin dare not cross the red parabola. 

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 16:17 | 4481553 TPTB_r_TBTF
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hopefully the O uses the same kinda line which Kennedy did...  a line which can be moved.

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:58 | 4481404 Kirk2NCC1701
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Russia needs to do much more than just "question" the legitimacy of the new Ukrainian regime.  It must reject it until the rule of law is restored:  NO recognition under the present circumstances, and the safety, security and interests of its people in the Ukraine shall be fully assured -- with force, if need be.

Of course it didn't help that the (present/former) President lost his head, chickened out and flew the coup.  The dumb cluck played right into the hand of the Coup d' Etat organizers (in DC) and players. 

All it takes is a few hits of "good shit" (Walter White's good stuff), and an otherwise person is easily manipulated into making foolish and rash decisions.  The CYA Psy Ops guys really know their shit, it seems.  BTW, did you know that even Adolf himself had Meth prescribed to him?  No fucking wonder he became (even more) unstable.  When will these fuckers and their sheeple ever learn, that TPTB in the West have been at these Psy Ops (mind-fuck) games for centuries?

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:56 | 4481440 Dr. Destructo
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Destabilize the Ukraine through subversion and financing protesters.

Turns right back around and warns Russia about using 'provocative' action.

Right...

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:57 | 4481446 Flakmeister
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Damn good thing that pretty much nobody here has anything to do with foreign policy anywhere whatsoever....

The world have have been to reduced to radioactive cinders a long time ago...

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 16:04 | 4481483 denverdolomte
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Enlighten us.

 

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 17:00 | 4481814 Flakmeister
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I proffer the comment directly below this one (time stamp 14;57) as Exhibit A...

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 17:28 | 4482016 Overfed
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Sounds fairly cogent to me.

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 19:23 | 4482387 Flakmeister
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That wasn't the issue...

And if that ain't enough I'll raise you one JCB...

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 16:51 | 4481762 Overfed
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WTF are you talking about?

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 15:57 | 4481449 mrmister
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An administration academia that spreads gayness around the world, VS a former KGB officer with decades of experience. Hum. I wonder who wins in that match.

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 16:11 | 4481484 TPTB_r_TBTF
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you are making the assumption, that no Shadow Govt exists in the West.

This event is not about a gay mulatto vs. a bear wrestler.

 

The unfoldingn event is Oligarch West (our Shadow Govt) vs. Oligarch East (eastern oligarchs havenT yet learned to hide themselves behind a Shadow Govt.)

(and non-democracies donT have the need to hide their oligarchs in a shadow govt.)

 

Look behind the curtain, before you bet against any gay mulattos.

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 16:02 | 4481474 ross81
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you'd think the prospect of a European war would be bullish but there's actually some red on those charts the last couple days. Just what is going on?

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 16:06 | 4481493 TPTB_r_TBTF
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are they faking a dip on you doomers so you short before they run it up again?

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 16:40 | 4481700 ciscokid
Wed, 02/26/2014 - 16:41 | 4481704 rwe2late
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Obama draws pipeline in Ukraine.

Warns Russia not to cross it.

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 16:59 | 4481810 whoknoz
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they searched the Federal Register to find a guy whose name was Ernest, just so the headlines could be written with that extra ounce of sincerety ...and everyone with responsibility could later deny it all...

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 17:19 | 4481956 QQQBall
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Earnest's Ukrainian Adventure! 

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 17:29 | 4482023 robertocarlos
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Putin - "Or what?"

Barry - "Or I'll come back, and break your fucking legs!"

 

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 17:56 | 4482145 pupdog1
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To Vlad Putin, a two-bit gangland community organizer is a snack.

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 17:59 | 4482161 pupdog1
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Future historians will credit our current president with the advent of a masterful foreign policy protocol known as triple dog dare ya.

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 19:04 | 4482412 MollyHacker
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How does Russia like getting its fields burnt (Ukraine trade), something going down and ain't Gold Bitchz

Wed, 02/26/2014 - 21:22 | 4482578 P?keh?
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Wed, 02/26/2014 - 21:50 | 4483029 falconflight
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I'm not too sure that Merika's feminized-gay armed forces is much a match for any military, well except the Serbs.  Send them in Barack and let Darwin work its magic.

Thu, 02/27/2014 - 11:09 | 4484389 LaurentDeLyon
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too strong WB7, excellent!

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