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Biden Warns Russia "It's Time To Stop Talking, And Start Acting"
Vice President Jo Biden's show of support arrival in Ukraine started with a somewhat back-handed statement that left some questioning Biden's diplomatic skills once again. "You face some very daunting problems and some might say humiliating threats are taking place," Biden spoke to Ukraine officials, pledging an additional $50 million to help Ukraine's beleaguered government with political and economic reforms. As CBS reports, The White House has also announced $8 million in nonlethal military assistance for the Ukrainian armed forces, including bomb-disposal equipment, communications gear and vehicles. Biden concluded his oratory with a threat - that seemed oddly worded given the 'actions' of the last few days, warning Russia that "it's time to stop talking and start acting."
As CBS reports, in the most high-level visit of a U.S. official since crisis erupted in Ukraine, Biden earlier told leaders from various political parties that he brought a message of support from President Obama as they face a historic opportunity to usher in reforms.
"The opportunity to generate a united Ukraine and getting it right is within your grasp," Biden said. "And we want to be your partner and friend in the project. We're ready to assist.
Biden met acting Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov and acting Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and democracy activists before announcing the new aid.
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"You face some very daunting problems and some might say humiliating threats are taking place," Biden said.
And promised more aid - to help the Ukrainians deal with their humilation?
The vice president also announced the United States would provide an additional $50 million to help Ukraine's beleaguered government with political and economic reforms.
The money includes $11 million to help conduct the May 25 presidential election, including voter education, administration and oversight. It also will help fund expert teams from U.S. government agencies to help Ukraine to reduce its reliance on energy supplies from Russia. Other technical advisers will help fight corruption.
The White House has also announced $8 million in nonlethal military assistance for the Ukrainian armed forces, including bomb-disposal equipment, communications gear and vehicles.
But the anti-Russia rhetoric was strong...
In a very loosely veiled reference to the alleged Russian troops in eastern Ukraine, Biden urged Russia to "stop supporting men hiding behind masks." Russian President Vladimir Putin flatly denied that any of his special forces were in eastern Ukraine in a live television appearance last week, dismissing the claims as "nonsense."
Biden told the lawmakers a priority for the U.S. is to help them become independent from Russian energy supplies. "Imagine where you'd stand today if you could tell Russia to keep your own gas," Biden said.
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Biden added, "You have to fight the cancer of corruption that is endemic in your system right now."
"I want you to know I do not underestimate the incredible pressure you all are under," Biden said. "I do not underestimate the challenges you all face. And I do not underestimate the frustration you all must feel when someone like me comes along to say what a great opportunity this is for you all."
Frustration indeed. But his final words were for Putin...
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden warned Russia on Tuesday that "it's time to stop talking and start acting" to reduce tension in Ukraine.
Or else...
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Fuck biden, an epic ass clown.
8 million greenbacks ??? you got to be jocking ... thats not enough to pay me to make your case with some stupid comments on ZH... these people have no idea what things costs these days ... even in Ukraine
kiev regime is living on borrowed time. another epic fail for the glorious nwo.
Pledging 58 million dollars was so important that it required Biden to deliver it? Wow, that should buy lots of cookies for Kiev.
Oh how the mighty have fallen!
$58 million for a failed state will not put it back together again. Too bad the USSA did not notice the populace was being plundered by the oligarchs from befoire the time of the "Orange Revolution." Of course one set of corrupt Oligarchs will have problems seeing the failing in a second set of corrupt Oligarchs.
One the claim that the uniformed med in Eastern Ukraine are Russian troops this is unlikely'
1) they lack the communications gear that each individual "little green man" in the Ukraine was equipped with.
2) Their camo pattern is very different from the LGM. Likely looted uniforms from Ukraine army stocks.
3) They lack the body armour worn by the LGM. Russian body armour is quite sophisticated and will stop a 5.56 NATO round. The armed men in the Eastern Ukraine appear to lack any body armour.
4) The dudes in Eastern Ukraine do not tuck in their shirts. The LGM gave every sign of being a highly disciplined force.
Don't you get the feeling he's talking...and not really acting (em, may be the other way around)...
What's the wait?
...Fuck biden, an epic ass clown.
Fuck Biden? Thanks, but no thanks! I wouldn’t let my goat fuck that cunt. ;-)
Looney
Biden: Hey Ukrainians, imagine today where you would be if you had your own gas......I guess the locals never considered this question, LOL
Someone tell Joe it's all okay. Ukraine bought a shotgun.
Putin is acting. Biden and BO are doing the talking, talking shit actually.
11 million $ for funding the presidential election and "the education of voters". 11 million bucks - that is sufficient to ensure that the right US puppet will be "elected"? Seems deflation has arrived long ago....
Thats the best comment I heard in a long time
Thats the best comment I heard in a long time
does an "ass clown" wear pants?
only down around his ankles while attending a Desert Spring 'white party'
Plugs Joe, just like Principal Strikland..."Eat Lead Slackers!"
Russia to Biden- it's time to stop talking....
The plan : get Russia so distracted in the Ukraine
Israel can send Iran to allah.../sarc
Payment for the Blackwater /Academi guys, heavily armed, roaming around the country behind balaclava masks ? The first down payment ?
Biden pays Kiev, they pay Blackwater / Academi, it all goes back to the "right" people one way or another , isn't that the 'game' those guys play ?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2576490/Are-Blackwater-active-Ukraine-Videos-spark-talk-U-S-mercenary-outfit-deployed-Donetsk.html
Even Victoria Nuland had $5 billion to play with.
DavidC
If you give Biden 5 billion dollars, he might do something really stupid like start world war 3. Naw, 58 million of our money is enough.
Biden is such a scrawny ass-licking paper tiger... so typical of today's U.S. politician. He is so obviously subservient to a higher money power. God only knows the blackmail material they must have on puppets like him and Barry Soetoro.
I find the scandals that take some politicians down, but not others, interesting to consider. I remember when Bill Clinton was running for the nomination and the whole Jennifer Flowers thing came to light. It was a moment that felt like the Gary Hart - Donna Rice thing all over again. I remember saying, "whelp, I guess that Clinton fella is out". While this is basically just my theory, in hindsight it seems pretty clear that the "media" was ready to declare Gary Hart as finished, where as Bill Clinton was going to become the cardiac kid. Gary Hart was done in a day. He was declared finished as soon as the story was confirmed.
It's not like they really have to have a ton of "blackmail" stuff on any given politician... the media can annoint or destroy anyone with very minimal coordinated effort. When the Jeremiah Wright stuff came up in 2008 I thought the same thing. The media could end this campaign right now, if they wanted. At any point during the hillary vs. obama show they could have easily moved the needle either way. Instead, Obama and Hillary were called off of the campaign trail for a secret meeting and an agreement was reached. This is ALL just theater.
I've been going with the idea that all "news" is a narrative, which parallels your "theater" call. . .
the newsy-speakers report/act what is fed them as prompts from the sidelines, and all tuned in get the running dialogues.
I've found the longer the story/plot runs, the more episodic the "news" - the more entertaining the plot - the more it is designed for distractions.
so your notion of "theater" and the fact that Clinton's drama was dragged out over time, vs. the short cut of Hart, is agree-able to me.
I reckon anything that is reported in episodes is training minds to think/opine a story.
and it's the short-sharp-shocks that are the narrative run wild, with endings no one is in total control of.
we wait.
Perfect response, which leads me to another similar observation that should likewise support your theory on the duration of the news cycle. The silly "shoe bomber" episode vs. the guy who flew his plane into the IRS building in Texas. One of these events "could have" led to an "event" one was actually an event. Which one was pushed through the media, non-stop, for weeks? The "could have" non-event. The guy in Texas, a guy with a legit gripe and an articulate "manifesto" got a mostly muted 48 hour cycle, never again to be mentioned, at least as far as I can observe.
By the way, thanks for linking the article yesterday on the Democracy Now USAID interview. I actually caught the interview when it happened and found it a little odd. Makes more sense now.
...and what sucks about political theatre is that, at least in real theatre, the groundlings have a good time
oh yes, excellent observation comparing the narrative life-span.
as someone who hasn't watched TeeVee in many, many years, my first *hit* of awareness of how it is used was after nein eleventy, when the news ran non-stop on all channels, and the edit'd clips of the "planes" hitting towers, and subsequent collapse was endlessly repeated, even when the talking-heads were prattling on about something else in the narrative. it was so obviously a mind-program-trick, visuals running while a voice tells you what to think!
the more attention I paid to the actual content & the monologues created to describe the visuals - and I'm referencing newsy narratives from online sources here - the more my critical eyes narrowed. . . adding in my awareness of the PNAC dudes wish list, well, yeah. . .
glad you found that link of interest, the blog has some very interesting perspectives in the history-content -from comments & blogger both - since the Great Greenwald took possession of "Snowden's Secret" - my initial scepticism appears to be shared by more than a few others, heh.
here's a wee story planted that caught my eye today. lots of bells going off in the storyline there, y'never know.
be well.
Some just implode on their own though. Remember the corndog chick?
pods
Spot on krid! Now if we could just do something about those pesky arabs having such control of the media and all.
world to Biden: Stop "acting" and start talking
You could get a really nice shotgun for 58 mill. maybe even buy two! Naw, on second thought, that might be a bit much. You only need one. Just point them barrels out the window and fire off two blasts ...
You don't need a ...
$58million is just over a half-hours worth of QE. Its like me lending my friend $50 bucks to stop a mob-hit against him. Its a big charade for the sheep.
Something here doesn't add up. The US just pledged a billion dollars to Iran tied to some such something or other around nukes... basically on the DL, but sent our #2 to the Ukraine for this grab-ass moment of absurdity? Biden should sit facing the door and shouldn't let anyone at the table use the restroom.
Biden's Air Force 2 depreciation, av gas and hotel bill probably cost 2 million
GTFO of ukraine, Biden! Need we remind you of how shitty things are back home?
Please let Joe stay there.....permanently
Biden wants Russia to act? Well Russia might just do that at Biden's urging. Ways Russia could act? Sell off all the U.S. t-bonds in one day. Stop using the dollar for oil and accepting it for their gas. Oh yes, there are many ways Russia could act and not one of them would be good for the U.S. Watch out Biden may well be punked when Russia uses his words against him and the U.S.
hear hear ! fuck the NeoCON artists and their communist style plans for the world
This is the funniest shit I heard coming out of Biden's mouth in a long time. Putin must be laughing, a deep, happy, mocking belly laugh, at what passes for US foreign policy in the Ukraine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD9TCpuWBq4
Quiet as it's kept, his/this is only an articulation of US foreign policy per se.
The intended audience is the domestic audience, aided, abetted, and fomented with/by the US corporape media. The unfortunate thing about this policy, is that it is effective on its intended 3 standard deviations of the target audience. The US is being led to war, any way this can be efficiently done, and to see behind the scrim of lies, knowing full well 95% don't care/know or/nor want to know, is disturbing at a primal level.
Wake me up when the ruling class steps into integrity -- or else the populous elects real leaders with integrity. Everything else until then is just griping.
His plane ticket cost more than that.
So does Obamas multiple trips with Reggie Love playing italian golf, balls outside, putter in the hole <g>
Compare this to how much Michelle spends on a vacation trip.
$8M. What's that, the bar bill for Joe and the Boys?
Let's see how long it takes, before Ukrainians revolt against the revolting revolters, i.e. CIA's puppet regime.
They already are.... check out the youtube videos of local militias in south eastern ukraine. Just wait till gas bills go up by 120%, pensions get cut, wages are frozen. The Ukies will string up Yats the rat by his shrivelled balls.
You don't understand. The 8 million is to pay for Biden and his entourage's Hotel bill, restaurant, ho and blo expenses on this trip...
Tax payers in the USA poaid more then *8 million dollars to send that ass clown over there.
This is what happens when you move hair from your ass, to he top of your head...
I will put order keyboard on my to do list, thanks.
pods
Bosley Hair Restoration.
'this is what happens'... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PztgWdMEJdg
Remember the endless shit Dan Quayle used to get from the media?
Biden is quite literally a mental retard. Yet no one seems to notice or care.
was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? HELL KNOW!
Gotta give him credit for showing up but clearly the Russians are still winning the smack talk derby.
President Putin is not afraid...so telling him to act is simply begging the question "what do you think i'm already doing? Do you even know? Do you even care?"
There is an election coming up. That strikes me as an important issue to address. How does a referendum on territorial contiguity sound?
Sounds like a real Party to me.
Multi-upvotes to you Buck!! Qualye was a bad public speaker, made me uncomfortable to watch him but he is no dumbass. But Biden is a complete dumbass and he is a bad speaker.
US press public enemy #1.
“Success is the important thing. Propaganda is not a matter for average minds, but rather a matter for practitioners. It is not supposed to be lovely or theoretically correct. I do not care if I give wonderful, aesthetically elegant speeches, or speak so that women cry. The point of a political speech is to persuade people of what we think right. I speak differently in the provinces than I do in Berlin, and when I speak in Bayreuth, I say different things than I say in the Pharus Hall. That is a matter of practice, not of theory. We do not want to be a movement of a few straw brains, but rather a movement that can conquer the broad masses. Propaganda should be popular, not intellectually pleasing. It is not the task of propaganda to discover intellectual truths.”
? Joseph Goebbels
Fuck biden, an epic ass clown.
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seldom does epic apply, but in this case, absolutely
Thats like a known pedaphile telling another one to stop ass rapping little boys.
Endemic corruption in your system. Sounds familiar. Lol
Strange, a puppet pulling the strings of another puppet!
Send the Ukraine's double barreled shotguns.
Problem solved!
I agree. That way the locals can shoot their coup leaders in Kiev and give the US plausible deniability.
we need another REGIME CHANGE in the Ukraine NOW
finally! he came, saw, heard, then talked ...
Can thought be far behind? Yes ... very very far behind.
Careful what you wish for, traitor.
time to roll the tanks Joe Biden said so.
Huh? What? Hasn't it been the Criminal CEO who's been verbally & twittering has threats & demands?
Bidens offering 50 million in bribes to the current ukraine govt. to create a legal structure that is friendly to the eu and us. to screw the ruskies over. Get your ass back home, Biden!
Yeah you go get em, Biden you weasle. Tell them we won't take any more of their crap and we're going to send the nukes. Let's start a world war -- God knows nothing else has worked yet.
What a clod!
how pathetic is this country? this ass clown is the vice totus. obama the scratch is the totus, and a fat, decrepit cow is running the printers? wtf?!?!?!?!?!
Printers? I thought that heifer was running for presidente?
Funny, I thought a clown wore makeup
MERS - Disease: 81 dead in Saudi Arabia - over 200 infected
deadly epidemic ist spreading:
latest
http://tersee.com/#!q=mers&t=text
This ain't no accidental virus folks.
Its the first step of Russian payback.
I heard Woodie has been stopping by there for a couple of hours lately. So thanks for cancelling the dinner?
Ukraine will implode under its own momemtum.....no need for any external player to get involved at this point. Just look at the currency and its non-viable economy. Run away everyone !
Biden setting up for US ground forces. The installed iillegitimate gov in Kiev can't get its forces to kill countrymen. Need outsiders to murder Ukrainians.
Are there any left after Stalin starved them?
Just as I suspected this is more about communist enthusiasts trolling ZH than about anything else.
nobody told you to check your brains at the door before posting here, ya know.....
Yes, and those outsiders will get nice russian welcome :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtFCsWeO1Lc
That Sir is not a Russian welcome! That is the Russian way of saying: "Fuck you!"
When it comes to foreign invaders, is there a difference?
50 Million + another 8 million & don't forget Criminal McCains 3 Billion in the overthrow destabilization Campain to overthrow a Soverign Gov.
How many American families in desperate need over you & your vile Ilk's Criminal behavior could that money have helped?
How many American familes would want that money left in their pockets in the first place?
Stop paying taxes ASAP. Seriously. This is the sweat of your work and the bread of your children that is being squandered away at "Give-away Parties" like this one. The same goes for Europe. In my country the austerity package has hit very hard, only to see that the money goes to pay some interest and later down the line some Bankers bonus package.
Seriously we should all sabotage any payment towards government until they learn to respect other peoples money and sacrifices.
The clown now leaves to make a fucking fool of himself at the next stop!
Biden has all the credibility of a used tampon.
Then again maybe he doesn't even have that.
I say, give Biden a map of the world with borders and no names and he won't be able to find the Ukraine.
At least the tampon was, at one point, good for something.
....... Joeseph Biden..... American suppository spreading evil shit wherever he goes.....
Politics, check your brain at the door.
ur nukular bombs is no match for my shotgun!
Does anyone else see the irony of Biden saying they need to fight the corruption?
Eight million dollars in military aid? WTF are they supposed to buy with that? Colin Powell's old 'chemical weapons trucks' they confiscated from Iraq?
Consulting fees for Israeli advisors.
LOL. Now that was funny.
$8 million ... 4 minutes of quantitative easing. Man, that's a lot of printing!
Psst. Joe. You got your lines reversed.
Biden ("I am a Zionist") is there to heat up this conflict:
Vice President Joseph Biden began his two-day trip to Ukraine Monday as the country continued to teeter on the edge of civil war. Tensions are mounting over killings in the eastern part of the country, where demonstrators calling either for union with Russia or a federalized system of government have seized control in at least ten towns and cities.
Biden’s visit is intended to signal support for the US-backed regime that was installed last February in a fascist-led coup orchestrated by Washington. He is to meet today with the leaders of the unelected government in Kiev, including its president, Oleksandr Turchynov, and its prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
Beyond that, the visit is aimed at ratcheting up Washington’s threats against Russia, including not only economic sanctions, but also the steady escalation of US and NATO military deployments right up to Russia’s borders.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/04/22/bide-a22.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0ZIJdN05QE
Heat up the conflict? if I didn't know better (and maybe I don't), Bidens speech would be enough to convince me that he is a double agent working for Putin.
"You face some very daunting problems and some might say humiliating threats are taking place,"
What's more humiliating, defending your people from Nazis trying to take over the country, or supporting said Nazis and saying some crazy shit about democracy?
Support Nazis in Ukraine, Al-CIAda in Libia, and Syria. Everywhere we go we are supporting fascism....I find that that FAR MORE HUMILIATING!
Moral high ground you do not have Biden....not anywhere.
I have a question ,,,,where the fuck did the $58,000,000.00 come from.
Have you checked your tax bills lately?
And here's what our overlords are up to lately:
Israeli crowd cheers as Africans called "slaves"
http://electronicintifada.net/content/video-israeli-crowd-cheers-african...
Let's help fight racism in Israel by supporting the vibrant Sudanese-Israeli community.
May they prosper, flourish and multiply in Israel.
https://www.facebook.com/ProsperInIsrael
The propaganda war is also heating up with the New York Times leading the charge with its lies as usual :
The New York Times finds Russian spies in eastern Ukraine
By Alex Lantier22 April 2014
The New York Times has run a relentless campaign of lies and distortions backing US policy in Ukraine. This has included portraying the opposition in eastern Ukraine to the pro-Western regime in Kiev as proof of an aggressive Russian intervention threatening Ukraine, Eastern Europe and the world.
The newspaper’s article Monday, “Photos Link Masked Men in Eastern Ukraine to Russia,” purports to provide definitive proof that Russian spies are active in eastern Ukraine and manipulating events there.
The article begins: “For two weeks, the mysteriously well-armed, professional gunmen known as ‘green men’ have seized Ukrainian government sites in town after town, igniting a brush fire of separatist unrest across eastern Ukraine. Strenuous denials from the Kremlin have closely followed each accusation by Ukrainian officials that the world was witnessing a stealthy invasion by Russian forces.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/04/22/time-a22.html
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/04/22/world/europe/under-russia-life-in-c...
I liked this hit piece. Fuck that rag. The propaganda is potent. Reading the article, I wanted to comment that it sounded like the ACA. Like there are precedents to changing countries. These motherfuckers are gonna get folks nuked.
yeah-these are the same gang of NeoCON idiots who "swore they knew where SH kept the WMD's in Iraq" gang of fucking pricks
lol
money includes $11 million to help conduct the May 25 presidential election, including voter education
so something for you and propaganda for people
What's biden gonna do, hold his breath?
Now it is Putin's turn.
The White House pledges to send vehicles--GM channel stuffing moves to the Ukraine.
Maybe the DC clown show is running a black op to channel stuff Russian dealerships with malfunctioning piece of shit late model GM products.
To insure at least a stand off, those GM vehicles should all go to Putin.
Biden doesn't even make sense to people who speak english... i laugh visualizing the russian translator trying to convey the "meaning" of Biden's remarks.. Biden's brain is scrambled and he cant coagulate a cogent thought much less express one. his brain is scrambled... whcih means he is QUALIFIED to be president.. just like Choomboy who has a pot scrambled brain along iwth holder... that is what's running this coountry??? Take a close look at hitlary's facial expressions and tell me she is not on psychotropic drugs heavy duty... alwys the deer i te headlight look gaxing into space.... space cadet.. pelosi, reid, debbie, schumer, israel.... all act like they are on serious drugs...
Plagerizing "plugs" Biden is the most worthless VP this country has seen. Useless like tits on a bull. A consumate cunt who's been milking the public teet his entire career.
FUCK YOU BIDEN!
You give him FAR too much credit Colonel..
your the only one joe your the only one.
Tonight I took a bath, because of you.
i stunk some.
It’s been a long time…Joe.long time
My Joe. We never did find the gold, but we had something. Something between us that was good as gold.
My Joe had all the nuggets we needed right between his legs.
shame he was only interested in drugged up boys cos my joe was gold real saturn gold.
and a bono fido star of david stamp on his heart to boot
joes are ten a penny but not my joe not my black and zion gold joe.
"....pledging an additional $50 million to help Ukraine's beleaguered government with political and economic reforms."
Ah, so that's what they're calling under-the-table military shipments these days.
50 mill on top of the 5 Billion!! Yes!!!! No we will show you! #winning
The U.S. broke Ukraine. It has no right to dictate anything to Russia about Ukraine, nor does it have the ability to control events there, as it is about to find out.
I thought the guys in the masks were from the U.S.
THey are called "CIA Assets"
We have a retard in the 2nd highest office in the land. The most important question, how does he hide the hand up his ass and the strings above his head?
Ha, no. He picks his cards up backwards so he has no idea what is on the card.
Ya but Biden is the brains of the operation...
Putin in 2016!
You're joking right? Thanks,but we have our own stable of sociopaths to choose from
Of course Mr.Biden, I forgot, it's only the US that's allowed to support masked gunmen when a foreign govt is being overthrown!
So is that bidenz 50 mill?
Somebody tell Biden its time to stop acting and start thinking.
It would be a plus if he could do either.
If I was the White House I would hang some sausages aroud his neck so as to convince Michelle Obama's dogs to play with him for a while.
Joe's gonna arm them with double barreled shotguns. Shoot em in the air and scare those Ruskies off!!!
Lol,
Jokey Joe really doesn't have that 'squint like Clint' thing going for him, does he?
Never mind the Russian translators, that cat can't make a sensible statement in English.
Just watched the video on CBS news website.
Quite ironic to see an ad for the show "Survivor - blood vs. water" just before the actual clip.
I guess that's the target audience...
Political reforms? How about a fucking vote first. installation is not democracy.
Losers.
What a joke. THEY have to fight the corruption? PULEEEZE
This crisis needs to last a lot longer or it won't be worth it. The US needs to get Russia and the EU to the point of war, if not into actual war. The US wants Russia to cut the flow of gas, forcing EU support for the various other pipeline schemes. Destabilizing two potential rivals with one crisis would be the perfect Kissinger-Brzezinski-Wolfowitz coup, and Syria clearly didn't do the trick.
You'd think giving a bunch of skinheads uniforms and machine guns would destabilize things enough, but the average Ukrainian seems to have so little faith in the puppet regime in Kiev even armed skinheads running around can't stir up enough chaos to spark a civil war. I'm sure the Ukrainians have no illusions about Putin. Just the fact that Putin isn't Obama doesn't mean Putin isn't the same "former" KGB thug, muscle for the organized crime oligarchs, that he's always been. But clearly the US/EU/IMF puppets are even less-trusted. At least you know what you're going to get with Putin and the Russian Mob. As long as you go along, they'll let you get along. You can't shear starved sheep. But the Banksters don't care at all. Ukrainians have plenty of nearby examples to observe; Latvia, Estonia, their own recent history, Greece, Ireland, etc.
I do worry what the next step will be in the increasingly-panicked campaign to keep this mess heaving.
Can we keep the war cold, please? I got kids.
"The US wants Russia to cut the flow of gas, forcing EU support for the various other pipeline schemes."
Au Contraire, the EU Countries have ALWAYS been THE MAIN SUPPORTERS for the other various pipeline schemes. They are the primary beneficiaries. That is why Herr-Fuhrer-Nincompoop is repeately late, reactive, and uncoordinated.
Mr O-Bam-Bam's administration is such a befuddled muddle because they never expected to be facing a test of the post-WWII order's viability. They are scrambling to keep a lid on the EU's pretensions to become a more unitary State by delivering the goods (pipelines) and thus, simultaneously, remaining relevant to Europe. And in doing so they are protecting the Dollar's status which resulted from that post-WWII order.
Strictly speaking, Obummer can't militarily deliver the goods (pipelines) that Europe wants because he and his predecessor moved out most of the troops and armor without developing a viable and timely contingency with NATO partners. The NATO partners, meanwhile, have been gullibly drinking the koolaide of supressed regional analysis by reason of outsourced strategic thinking.
Shortly, NATO was complacent and overly trusting of US's Force Projection capability (which hasn't been tested since REFORGERs stopped). The EU are ambitious, authoritarian, but esssentially feckless and militarily naive- at least for now.
So, instead, Obummer bet the dollar on the CIA's ability to 'save' the day by destabilizing whole regions and hoping some pipelines drop out.
Here is what is at stake for the US:
The Petro-Dollar cannot survive without the support of the Gulf nations. The Dollar-Reserve-Standard cannot survive without Europe. Pipelines from the gulf largely ensure both groups remain in the US camp.
But why is Russia in such a rush?
Militarily it would take 3-6 months to deploy a significant US force to Europe to force a settlement that doesn't involve Russia annexing and dominating its neighbors. HOWEVER, there is as of yet no indication that the administration or NATO are taking this seriously from a military stand point, covering all bases and potential outcomes, and beginning that process.
Spies!
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Russia does not take a CRAP in Ukraine
The plan : get Russia so distracted in the Ukraine
Israel can send Iran to allah
I think i read somewhere they wargamed that and it didn't end well for the NAZIONIST state
http://www.globalresearch.ca/provoke-an-attack-on-iran-lets-bring-it-on-...
oh wait...... sorry my bad just a bunch of psychopaths spewing more shit......
"You face some very daunting problems"
Is there a problem with concentrating on the US homeland you fucking sack of discarded dogshit???
Fuck US politicians raw!
Dementia patient on a befuddled day trip.
50 million?! That barely covers a one week vacation for Moochelle and the kids. How's that supposed to fix things in Ukraine?
50 million covers a few minutes of FED market priming.
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