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Russia On "Absurd" EU,US Sanctions: "This Is An Operetta, We Can Only Laugh"
Vladimir Putin's approval rating has soared to new five-year highs as the State Duma ratifies the agreement on Crimea's admission to Russia. However, it is the clear distain that the Russian Foreign Affairs Committee Deputy Chairman Alexander Romanovich had for the West's response so far. "The US and EU sanctions against Russia are absurd and unreal," the lawmaker scoffed, adding "this is an operetta, and we can only laugh." So much for non-mutually-assured-destruction-based sanctions. The Duma are considering how retaliatory sanctions could be imposed.
The State Duma considers sanctions imposed by the US and the EU in response to Crimea’s accession to Russia absurd and unreal.
“The US and EU sanctions against Russia are absurd and unreal,” State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee Deputy Chairman Alexander Romanovich told Itar-Tass.
The lawmaker is head of the Russian delegation at the 130th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) currently underway in Geneva.
“This is an operetta, and we can only laugh: for example, sanctions have been imposed against (head of the A Just Russia party faction in the State Duma Sergei) Mironov. Then it turned out that he had not been banned the entry. It was reported his property abroad had been arrested,” Romanovich said.
“Maybe, the list will be expanded. As for response measures, we should look at how sanctions should be imposed,” the lawmaker said.
Via ITAR-TASS,
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rating has hit a five-year record high, according to a survey conducted by the Russian Public Opinion Research Centre (WCIOM) on March 15-16.
The survey, published on Thursday, showed that 75.7% of 1,600 respondents in 130 Russian towns and cities approved of their leader’s policy.
STATE DUMA RATIFIES AGREEMENT ON CRIMEA'S ADMISSION TO RUSSIA
Lower house of parliament ratifies treaty signed March 18 by President Vladimir Putin on Crimea, Sevastopol joining Russia as new regions.
Duma also passes changes to constitution required for accession
445 Vote:- 1 Voted Against, 4 didn't vote
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Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.
Suck it Nuland, Suck it.
You do not taunt Russia, Russia taunts you!
I would love it if Putin would go all out and back up his (puppets') threats of an assymetrical retaliation to sanctions. However, I also think Putin's smart enough to realize that if you don't play with the tiger's tail, you don't have to have a plan for the teeth. If Russia/Putin/Duma don't retaliate and provoke Washington, Obama will continue to be the loser. Putin doesn't need to get the last word on this and for his sake, he should just "deal with the (not even a) slap on the wrist and enjoy his Crimean prize. Obama and the EU will continue to shoot themselves in the foot without Putin's provoking.
Arn't US troops scheduled to be withdrawn from Afganastan and be withdrawn through Russia?
What if Russia says no?
History has shown we have little concern about violating Pakistan's airspace and wishes...
Shoot, maybe Israel will start getting uppity now that they see that the US won't even support a NATO friend, so maybe our forces in Afghanistan are extracted through an attack on Iran??? /sarc
Doesn’t Barry have the picture of Dukakis in the tank on his desk?
Distain is tough to get out
Oh this is far from over, this will run its course to 'completion' - a substantial change in EU and US behaviour and policy.
While we need change, much of the behavior that we witness our idiots partaking in is institutuionalized. Any change is going to be resisted because if nothing else, our retarded foreign policy creates retarded jobs.
I bet he is just loving the fact that the US and EU are doing all the heavy lifting for him. They fuck up and he gets the credit. Priceless.
....and thus endeth the lesson
Mr. Putin, please remove your military from the region and reinstate Ukraine's independence, or I'll slap you!
- Barry Choom Soetero
President of the World "Superpower"
Everyone just be cool, Barry's gonna come on the idiot box 10 min from now and he will damn sure put a stop to all this nonsense. I know that's realy not funny, sorry
do youmean slap him like this.....south park 12 seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCgjQD1kvrc
Now that's funny shit, but I just wasted an 1/2 an hr following Eric Cartman links on youtube. lmao
There are 80,000 Russian troops in America , how would we re-supply the troops in Afganastan if it was not for been able to go through Russia , this whloe production is a joke , its like listening to babies crying , dont forget they must also be throwing babies out of incubators somwhere.
In your face, US,EU!
Facial cumshot
As long as there is no Bagration II the West can pretend to be in charge.
An obscure reference that Obama would not know about.
He who laughs last ......
In the Putin's words to Odouchebag, "Yob tvoiu mat"
Meh. The story got boring already. Does anyone even remember what happened during and after the Russo-Georgian war? Me neither. This is about as significant as that - without the shooting. In other words, entertainment that will be forgotten soon enough. Can we get some fresh stories on Syria or something?
Ya, right. It's completely insignificant that Russia just threw the US out of the Ukraine. I think the army calls that defeat, but not sure. Of course, present day fighting by a financialized nation is not "boots on the ground" anymore, it's more like installing a puppet gov't, starting civil uprisings, controlling the media, and imposing banking sanctions. The US fights like a 5yr old girl because it is being led by bankers, accountants, and lawyers.
The KGB agent will defeat these pussies every time.
Orrr, it's being led by a 5 year old girl wearing mom jeans and bicycle helmet.
I saw a Syria story trying to sneak in a couple days ago, along with the monthly Israel gonna nuke Iran story. Neither gained any traction.
I think the appease Putin story still has legs. It's Chamberlainesque.
Mr Putin
We are stuck with Adolf for awhile. Anything you can do would be helpful.
PUTIN IS COOL!!!
I WISH I HAD A PRESIDENT WITH BALLS LIKE THAT!!
Why have Russian's won every major war...because Zionist bankers dont like the cold, can't ski either, only babble.
Don't you have 3 queens though?
I don't know how many.
But I do know our Prime minister is a queen!
I wish I didn't have a president or another form of dictator.
Looks like that one Duma dummy will be voting nyet from the Siberian camps next time
Nah, that was the controlled opposition vote, needed to make the vote appear genuine. Putin told him to vote that way, or else, "No borscht for you!"
Reminder to EU, US, UK and NATO, it's usually accepted than you stop digging when you find yourself in a hole, especially one of your own making.
The First Rule of Holes NEVER is applicable to the political realm, as they see a half dug hole as "shovel-ready."
A bankrupt sociopath says he is taking his toys in and not playing anymore,just laughable,Obama,Cameron,Barosso,Van Rumpoy actually think the world listens to the continual BS they spew out daily while improving nothing for their own people.
EU leaders want to impose sanctions on Russia while miserable EU debt slaves want to impose their same debt slavery on Russian citizens (and Miley Cyrus!) so they can all have equal misery everywhere.
Dah,
I eat your lunch, you flabby little girlymans...You cry like baby.
Maybe I come again tomorrow.
I would think Obummer would be sick of being Dake Age'd by Putin once a day.
Too arrogant and hubristic to even realize what a clown he actually is. In his mind, as with Charlie Sheen, he's winning.
Transcript of speech Putin gave a couple days ago, much easier to follow than the audio with the Russian language in the background and the translation in the foreground. It seems like the West just pushed too far:
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President Putin's address to Parliament over Crimea
"They [the West] are constantly trying to sweep us into a corner because we have an independent position, because we maintain it and because we call things like they are and do not engage in hypocrisy. But there is a limit to everything. And with Ukraine, our western partners have crossed the line, playing the bear and acting irresponsibly and unprofessionally.
After all, they were fully aware that there are millions of Russians living in Ukraine and in Crimea. They must have really lacked political instinct and common sense not to foresee all the consequences of their actions. Russia found itself in a position it could not retreat from. If you compress the spring all the way to its limit, it will snap back hard. You must always remember this..."
Putin has tremendous command presence.
Really there are some things that an affirmative action provided, community organizing, Harvard ball sucking degree can't buy.
As far as I can tell he doesn't use a teleprompter and people get to ask hem questions on television, unscreened, and he answers them directly. Unseen and unheard of in our part of the world.
He seems to work for Russia instead of a thinktank, lobby or special interest.
And I'm sure Putin's apparent fully justifiable, reasonable and measured approach to the Ukraine/Crimea is something that has angered the corridors of Western capitals. If the arch-hypocrite William Hague (British Foreign Secretary) objects to Putin's actions, he should explain what his position is over Gibraltar and the Falklands.
Their strenuous efforts to portray Putin as being "just like in the old days of Cold War" has backfired as more and more people get their news from ZH and other new MSM sites and dump the old MSM Daily Slime propaganda.
Matters little how many people don't buy the BS when there's still waaaaaay too many people who will jump at the opportunity to march in lock-step with "America's Leaders" once some emotional event undermines logic.
It's not like these people threw away their flag-ribbon magnets from 2001, ya know.
Why? Because when the SHTF, sheeple will always defer to power in an effort to "DO SOMETHING!!!!"
Welcome to the wonderful world of collectivism. Enjoy your stay!
I sort of picture Putin dressed like this character when he utters such the statement "Don't make me laugh!!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJtv61M6hoo
Cue Freddy Mercury
"Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?"
Somebody got the daily data to put Putin's and Obama's approval on the same graph?
Thinking X would mark the spot...
How the fuck did we get here? a world where Russia, and Putin are the defenders of peace and justice, and America the spewers of lies and injustice?
Is there anyone here in the military that has had enough of this stupidity?
Good questions.
I've been asking such questions since Bush the Idiot and his NeoCon scumbags invaded Afghanistan and Iraq. Back then everyone was all patriotic due to believing the false flag operation called 911. More people have woke up since then. Problem is, the oligarchs have become more bold since then too.
I wonder what they have in store for us next? We shall see.
Do a little homework on the growth of militia movements in America after 2001...
Yes, my farming Co-op and I are mostly vets and active duty reservists. We consent to defend American territory and the assets therein, starting with our own, and are well prepared to do so.
Outside of that, good luck everyone.
Valarie Jerrit thanks you for your self-identification.
See ya in camp!
How they feel about the govt? On you tube this Maine Prepper claims he is Spec Ops and sounds like a NE lib. He says that Americans should not fear the military as long as they don't try to overthrow the govt. Someone posted that he should read The Constitution. The guy is a total douchebag. Probably loves his Gunny pension.
I was saying the same a while ago during the Syria debacle.
How did we get to the point where the Russians make sense, their point of view seems like common sense to me, and the US position is ... well, I can't figure out what's really going on. It feels like a power grab by big money, but they bury it so deep in bullshit that it's not decypherable.
Theta_Burn Is there anyone here in the military that has had enough of this stupidity?
They have all been fired or are being fired. Have you not seen the lisit of generals and admirals that are gone?
Putin is bad.
Before you press red arrow,please check the link below,about new EO of BO.
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/new-executive-order-obama-has-just-given-himself-the-authority-to-seize-your-assets_03192014
Your link simply confirms that the real power brokers are all the same.
Only one "law" applies now, specififically, when fraud is the status quo, POSSESSION is the law.
Is that a picture of Putin laughing? He looks more like he's got his nutsack caught in a zipper.
Franks and beans!!!
Opulence. He haz it.
When Obamatron tries to foment revolution, I jump in it!
Prez Barry Obummer, "Now look here, Putin, you need to be afraid, be very afraid!....
Reaction from the Kremlin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BAEJyuReWQ
In the end, it's the country with the biggest guns and the will to use them that wins. Sanctions and negotiations are crap in the face of a country that doesn't abide or is not affected by them.
what will be funny is when Putin tells Porsche and Audi: Nyet machina v moscva.
Dear Putin, I say embargo the sale of new Kraut wagons and bring that Kunt Merkel to heel.
A uni-polar world was America's downfall through hubris and imperial overreach.
Time for a NEW new world order: PNRC (project for a new russian century)
You ripped those thought right out of mind! Nice trick.
The Military Industrial Complex that rules the US is constantly seeking control, conflict and war. In Putin, they have a indomitable force that will not back down:
Continuing its well-prepared campaign to exploit the Ukrainian crisis as a pretext for a vast expansion of imperialist operations in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, Washington and its European Union (EU) allies responded yesterday to Russia’s official annexation of Crimea by calling for a military buildup that would put NATO on a perpetual war footing against Moscow.
Speaking yesterday at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said: “Ladies and gentlemen, we live in a different world than we did less than a month ago… The annexation of Crimea through a so-called referendum held at gun point is illegal and illegitimate.”
Were it not for the potentially catastrophic consequences of NATO’s actions, Rasmussen’s statements would have a grotesquely farcical character. Nothing he said bore any relation to reality.
The portrayal of NATO as a peaceful opponent of Russian aggression is a political fraud. The majority-Russian Crimean population voted overwhelmingly to join Russia principally due to fear of the anti-Semitic, anti-Russian forces the West unleashed in Ukraine when it backed the February 22 fascist-led putsch in Kiev. This regime now rules Kiev with appeals to anti-Russian chauvinism and by relying on violence to intimidate its opponents.
Rasmussen is outlining a policy of continually stoking war hysteria against Russia, in order to isolate Moscow and shift US and European politics dramatically to the right. This includes increasing military spending and the US military presence in Europe—a continent already bankrupted by five years of budget cuts and austerity measures.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/03/20/ukra-m20.html
Yes, but did NATO purchase the extended warranty package with this deal?
Seriously, which EU country even has a couple of pfenigs to rub together?
C'mon Portuguese army, jump in yer tankz already!
Tragedy is that those US/Eu politicians are richer than all ZHers all together, and they are laughing. Needless to say same is even more true about Russian politicians. Show must go on.
And those of us who live under the tyranny of the banking elite, can only wait.......
I'm having a hard time imagining who isn't.
There's absolutely no way that the banksters don't own all sides of the narrative in the age of global fiat. Sure there's infighting amongst factions, but all that displays is that there's still a bit of competition to be top dog.
Kind of like the infinity of "#2 Al-CIA-duh" office holders. There's always someone looking to get a leg up.
I guess Obama's "I'm going to tell on you!" didn't incite much fear.
after the global economy bypassed Russia, (wall street has been trying to sell Russian membership for a long time) Russia achieved some level of autonomy (or self determination) and the rest of the G-whathaveyou is puzzled by all this. why aren't they more like north korea or iran? (rogue states) well they probably are, sochi didn't prove much except the old potemkin village is still in place. but not everyone is running with open arms to join the eu. it looked like the US might finally win over Cuba for a while, but now all these capitalist export schemes are going to be renegotiated. and places like California are no longer solidly in the old union of Lincoln. new times for a new people
just wondering what if would be like if we had a president and congress who focused on American's people but what we got is off shoring - war mongering- energy wasting-NWO- climate taxers, who know nation states are toys for the new reptile elite of which too many are right in ol USA...seems our military is missing a mission the american public prays for daily.
"The Duma are considering how retaliatory sanctions could be imposed."
A couple of ideas:
1. Recognize banksters as financial terrorists and ban them from the Russian Federation.
2. Stop contracts from being settled in petro-dollars.
3. Offer competitive full scholarships in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and the Engineering disiplines to highly qualified American students who are unwilling to become indentured "student loan" slaves.
4. Stop the space taxi service unless paid in physical gold or equivalent.
5. Publish some more "crystal clear" intercepts. One every few days for a month would be a hilarious start to ending the relationship between western crony-capitalists and their government minions.
Obama would use those measures to File a State of Emergency, apply full Executive law..
Number three could be a game changer. I like it.
Why did Putin move on Crimea? Sevastopol? The port was already on long-term lease. Besides, the fleet can be bottled up very easily in the straits of Bosporus. The real reason is that the Black Sea coast has always been the vacation spot and playground for the Russian elite. The coast is lined with expensive resorts, gambling casinos, and yacht harbors.
Or, some girly-men-financial-fucks tried to come in, foment revolution and stage missles at their door. Could be something like that.
How long do you think it would've taken this new regime in Kiev to do away with any prior agreements with Russia in regards to Russian forces in Crimea? They clearly had an anti-Russian agenda from the very start and Putin immediately grasped this. He wasnt going to let Kiev and possibly NATO establish even a small military foothold in the place before reacting, when it would have been too late. He totally caught them by surprise, hence Kerry, Hague, etc throwing their toys out the pram!
Wouldn't it be great if Putin just came out and said, enough of this political nonsense, I challenge you Obama to a cage match, no hold barred.
I'd pay 29.99 to see that demolition derby.
I'd pay 1000.00
Our team sucks and the draft picks aren't looking so hot either.
It's like being in the Twilight Zone.
Having grown up during the Cold War, it seems kind of strange to find myself admiring the leader of Russia more than the leader of America.
This is like going to the theater. I must say, the actors suck though. No doubt deals have been made and pawns exchanged.
Good story, GREAT comments. I chuckled out loud several times.
Thank you all. Even the whack anti-semites!
I'd like to see a US poll of approval rankings for Putin. His LGTBQZRS stance will cost him San Francisco, but win him all of Kansas...
If only Kansas had queers...
Anti Zionist is not the same as "anti-semite". Hope you can tell the difference, it's kind of an important distinction.
Impeach
Prosecute
Execute
(repeat)
Racism, pure and simple. He stood up to a black guy, and now everyone loves him.
That's a good one! +1000!
Video Putin walking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4qJaEyoV44
Should get some music under this like :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z4m4lnjxkY
How about not accepting dollars for any trade, including natgas...
In an big husky Russian voice... ' Is that it? HA HA HA, Oboma is so puny HA HA HA '.
..." The Duma are considering how retaliatory sanctions could be imposed."...
Ban the use of English for foreign politiicians visiting Russia ?
;-)