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White House Accuses Russia Of Painting Military Vehicles White; Merkel Agrees "Actions Represent Dangerous Escalation"
With no Instagram #selfie image or YouTube clip as proof (yet), The White House issued a statement proclaiming that today, in violation of its previous commitments and international law, Russian military vehicles painted to look like civilian trucks forced their way into Ukraine... and that Russia has no right to send vehicles, persons, or cargo of any kind into Ukraine, whether under the guise of humanitarian convoys or any other pretext, without the express permission of the government of Ukraine. Furthermore, the actions "only amplifies international concerns about Russia’s true intentions...for which it will bear additional consequences." If that sternly-worded email was not enough, President Obam took time away from the course on Martha's Vineyard to chat with Angela Merkel and then issued a joint statement somewhat sheepishly noting that this is "further provocation" and represents a "dangerous escalation."
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But didn't US equities surge 2,3,4,5% on de-escalation news?
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Regarding Russia's "Invasion"...
Statement by NSC Spokesperson Caitlin Hayden on Russian Convoy in Ukraine
Today, in violation of its previous commitments and international law, Russian military vehicles painted to look like civilian trucks forced their way into Ukraine. While a small number of these vehicles were inspected by Ukrainian customs officials, most of the vehicles have not been inspected by anyone but Russia. We condemn this action by Russia, for which it will bear additional consequences.
The Ukrainian government and the international community have repeatedly made clear that this convoy would constitute a humanitarian mission only if expressly agreed to by the Ukrainian government and only if the aid was inspected, escorted and distributed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). We can confirm that the ICRC is not escorting the vehicles and has no role in managing the mission, a condition that all parties had agreed would be required. Under the agreed terms, the mission should have been accomplished by sending a small number of inspected trucks in to drop their supplies and return to Russia within 24 hours by the same approved route by which they entered. That is not what is taking place. As we and governments around the world have said all along, Russia has no right to send vehicles, persons, or cargo of any kind into Ukraine, whether under the guise of humanitarian convoys or any other pretext, without the express permission of the government of Ukraine.
The primary barrier to the delivery of the humanitarian aid has been the lack of security guarantees from the Russia-backed separatists. Russian military vehicles piloted by Russian drivers have unilaterally entered the territory controlled by the separatist forces Russia has been training, supplying, and reinforcing for months. The Ukrainian humanitarian assistance convoy was prevented from delivering much needed assistance to Luhansk city.
At the same time as Russian vehicles violate Ukraine’s sovereignty, Russia maintains a sizable military force on the Ukrainian border capable of invading Ukraine on very short notice. It has repeatedly fired into Ukrainian territory, and has sent an ever-increasing stream of military equipment and fighters into Ukraine. As a result, the international community has been profoundly concerned that Russia’s actions today are nothing but a pretext for further Russian escalation of the conflict. We recall that Russia denied its military was occupying Crimea until it later admitted its military role and attempted to annex this part of Ukraine.
Russia’s decision today to send in its vehicles and personnel without the ICRC and without the express permission of the Ukrainian authorities only amplifies international concerns about Russia’s true intentions. It is important to remember that Russia is purporting to alleviate a humanitarian situation which Russia itself created – a situation that has caused the deaths of thousands, including 300 innocent passengers of flight MH17. If Russia really wants to ease the humanitarian situation in eastern Ukraine, it could do so today by halting its supply of weapons, equipment, and fighters to its proxies. This is a flagrant violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity by Russia. Russia must remove its vehicles and its personnel from the territory of Ukraine immediately.
And the follow-up call with Merkel...
- *OBAMA SPEAKS WITH MERKEL ABOUT UKRAINE, WHITE HOUSE SAYS
- *OBAMA, MERKEL AGREE THAT RUSSIAN CONVOY A PROVOCATION
- *OBAMA, MERKEL AGREE THAT CONVOY VIOLATES UKRAINE SOVEREIGNTY
- *RUSSIA'S ACTIONS REPRESENT AN ESCALATION, MERKEL AND OBAMA SAY
President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel say the presence of Russian soldiers in Ukraine, the buildup of Russian troops along the Ukrainian border and Russian shelling into Ukraine represent dangerous escalations of tensions by Moscow.
The White House says the two leaders agree that a Russian convoy that entered Ukraine without approval is yet another provocation by Moscow that violates Ukraine's sovereignty.
Obama and Merkel spoke Friday while Obama vacationed in the island resort of Martha's Vineyard.
Russia says the convoy that entered Ukraine on Friday is for humanitarian purposes, but Ukraine and the U.S. say the Russians failed to abide by conditions set by Ukraine and the International Red Cross.
Obama and Merkel agree that Russia must remove the convoy and withdraw from Ukrainian territory.
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More costs and isolation? More red lines? We assume European leaders are in full panic mode...
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I think he is the Worst Politican of All Time!
And in 37 alternate realities!
And, let's just call him "The Homo" 'cause all he does is SUCK!
But it is ok to shell civilians and to besiege residential areas.
"Obama and Merkel agree that Russia must remove the convoy and withdraw from Ukrainian territory."
that's nice that they agree. lmao
the convoy will be removed when it has been emptied. maybe. lmao
ObaMer = irrelavent
This coming from a country that went on a rampage killing millions of people just in Iraq and totally destroying an entire country. Lets not even go to any of the other 50 events. How can anyone say all this with a straight face? Or look themselves in the mirror? Seems the US has the allbright syndrome! Killing millions of kids was worth it. It would save the country.. Since it didnt, they had to kill millions more and yet it did not save it. Maybe now they have to nuke it to save it. That sure would save it.
Ok..ok..so it's a really fucked up world these days...but...really...does it make a big enough difference what color a truck is painted to (potentially) start WWIII? Search trucks...weapons or food. Weapons, die...food, pass. Seems easy to me?
Obama has said that Russia has no right to send an aid convoy into East Ukraine without the permission of the Ukraine government. So the US has no right to carry out air strikes against ISIS in Syria without the permission of the Syrian government.
"...Russia has no right to send vehicles, persons, or cargo of any kind into Ukraine, whether under the guise of humanitarian convoys or any other pretext, without the express permission of the government of Ukraine."
Somebody needs to tell Obama that the Ukraine doesn't have a government, it has a fascist junta, sowing death & destruction to its own people. How that will ever heal, God only knows.
Further, Merkel's alleged desire to join the BRICS and/or do more business with Russia will not be helped by making joint statements with lunatics like Obama which condemn Russia for sending humanitarian aid to the people mentioned above, especially when that aid has already been subjected to deliberate obstacles & delays by the Ukraine's fascist government.
Merkel is only interested in protecting her own interests, not that of Germany. She alsways has and always will.
Battle lines are being drawn everywhere if you pay attention. We the people have more allies here then they realize if they decide to do something about it. All the double entandre lip flapping aside the actions are telling a different tale here. As we the people's anger intensifies over how these people treat other human beings including their own supposed family aka us the other sides desperation gets more obvious. This is one of the ways you will seperate the wheat from the chaffe and the Americans and their allies from the USSA and their sycophants.
If this break out into a shit kicking bar brawl of USA vs USSA internally the international stage won't be able to sit on the sidelines since USSA is just too intertwined in everyone's shit. There will be quite a few international allies here if it breaks out plus we will find out just who really hates us for our freedoms.
Bush was projecting when he said they hate us for our freedoms, he wasn't talking about the assholes who enabled all this shit in the first place that mindlessly cheered him on, he was talking about people like him and the owners who manipulate those people to their own ends.
As the American government becomes ever more fascist and authoritarian in its attitudes towards the American people it is supposed to represent, it becomes ever more important for people on the outside to clearly differentiate between the two when referring to events in the US. Today's government is not supported by large tracts of the population.
The disastrous foreign policy of covertly funding civil wars and setting fire to the Middle East, the Ukraine fiasco and clear attempts to antagonise/provoke Putin/Russia and China are all examples of a government that's gone out of control. From the point of view of a world that co-operates together for mutual benefit there is little or no need for any of it. They are not doing it for the benefit of their own citizens but to expand their own power & control over global society. The march towards a global fascist/socialist utopian state. Just like all mad dictators of the past.
I spotted this trend some time ago and I realise that - whilst there are always plenty of obedient muppets who will support this model of government, usually because they're beneficiaries of it - there are large numbers of American people who are angry and disgusted by it and are rebelling. Those numbers are growing with every new attack on peoples' liberty and every new bizarre foreign policy invasion.
I'm assuming this trend towards a split in society between the USSA and USA will continue. It seems clear to me that the DHS is preparing for war against the American people. That will be the beginning of the end. I know which side I support. And it will prevail.
As an aside: it seems shameful that America - with probably the best Constitution in the world which underpinned huge economic and personal success - has been systematically taken to pieces by political scum and unelected alphabet agencies of the State to the point where they are trying to dismantle the Constitution and turn the country into yet another catastrophic socialist utopian nation where everybody is equal except those who are more equal. Such dreams always end in disaster. History is littered with the wreckage of lunatic dictators who have dragged their country on the long march to utopia but ended up slaughtering millions of their own people.
Who asked mr. President Assad for sending aid to ISIS or back then called Al-Nusra or what so ever...
The only reasonable answer to this from Russia would be: FUCK YOU!!!!!
I think that is precisely what Russia has done....in so many words... ;-)
One convoy of aid is not nearly enough.
More, many more are needed, at least one per week.
1948: US vs Russian Reds: "The Berlin Airlift."
2014: The US Reds vs The Russians' "The Donetsk Trucklift"
"Russian military vehicles painted to look like civilian trucks forced their way into Ukraine".
I've never seen such a fever-pich of political desperation, ever in my whole life. And once again, Merkel has to fall in line with what she full well knows to be blatant baloney.
Agreed. Pathetic is th only word one can use to describe the posturing, ethics and stupidity of Germany.
Lord Rottenchild wishes it.
I find it interesting that the Ukranians have not made an attempt at destroying gas pipelines running through the east.
I find it strange that ISIS did not destroy the dam they had initially captured.
But I don't find it strange that the Israeli government does not differentiate between combatants, civilians, hospitals, schools, tunnels or homes.
Why paint trucks white?
when you go to war you
Paint it Black
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6d8eKvegLI
Beside of the often overseen historical fact that Russia is playing in it's own front lawn and Ukraine at the same time is a deeply divided non-Nato-member reigned by suspect politicians: I would advise Merkel not to walk in that insoluble diplomatic trap: Finally she will loose her face or boost recession at home. She will not solve the Problems in Ukraine.
There is enough to do in her own front yard in other words with the colllapsing Euro-card house. The whole "crisis" around Ukraine was 100 percent predictable and has to be fought out inside Ukraine. I can't see any sense in rattling sabers on the base of half-assed sanctions.
The fact that Merkel is just sacrifying economic relations to a non-keynesian country which is able to pay for goods without help of ESM or "whatever-it-takes"-Draghi, is not very beneficial to counteract the collapse of the Eurozone. Merkel is not only sacrifying her own country's economic motor but finally will also pay the bill for the losses of other European members.
So they painted military trucks. Guilty as charged I guess.
And in them are humanitarian suppies too I expect - so what difference does the paint make?
K@
“We’re not going to be restricted by borders.” - Benjamin J. Rhodes, Obama national security adviser, in a plea to violate Syrian sovereignty (and use the fight against ISIS to end up Assad's rule in Syria).
The level of blatant doublespeak is becoming deafening.
George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning, but somehow it got turned into an instruction-manual.
Yet the USA and UK can unilaterally decide to attack ISIS within Syrian borders if they so choose because it is in their 'national interests'. They operate under a completely different set of rules than the rest of the international community, and incredibly, can not (will not?) see the inconsistency.
The Langley boys are losing this battle. Taking on Russia as the winter arrives. Now lets see who tried that before them. Napoleon? Hitler? How did that turn out?Now lets see how many fronts the Langley boys are fighting on. Lets start with Ferguson. Then how about ISIS. Then moving on to Gaza, Then we can add in the IRS. Then lets try NSA. And Libya. And lets look at all the big amount of money in Reserves these 'fighters' have to conduct these battles. We have lets see 1.4 quadrillion in derivatives as backbone holding up this mighty fighting machine.And lets see how much gold and silver we have to support our currency in case our valuable dollars are questioned by our creditors.
The Secret Weapon of Russia: Winter!
And Putin and all his new best friends know all that and are leveraging appropriately. Very interesting cold war, hopefully it won't get out of hand and go extra bloody. West knows Russia and China are beefing up nuclear readiness and the bear will certainly not capitulate without visiting armageddon on everyone. West is overextended and losing the narrative in the cold war.
You've got to be kidding, our president paints everything white (and racyst) that he doesn't like. It's how he got elected, what's the diff.
Well, now....THAT was really, really forceful!....if I were Putin, I would be shitting in my pants at that.
Who in their right mind would pay ANY attention to Backdoor Obola?
The US must have some pretty good tapes of Merkel doing something she wasn't supposed to do.
I forgot the Grand Strategy of the Langley boys...get a war going so that the US gets nuked by the Russians and Chinese so we have the 'excuse' to nuke them off the planet. Now lets look at the 'heros' in history who have had that plan. Ghengis Khan, Attaturk, Ivan the Terrible, Hitler, Mussolini, Robespierre, and now we can add Obama, Soros, Holder etc I get a sneaking suspicion that this might not work out as these people planned. After all the others on this list did not do so well in the end either.
These statements from Obanana and his Hampelwoman in Berlin confirm, what was my first idea yesterday.
Obanana/NATO and their vasal EU, have lost the control.
Now everybody can ignore the ilegal fascistic government in Kiev and go in go out of Ukraine, because Kiev has no authority on territory of Krim and now on the territory of Novorossia.
V.Putin, without firing a shot, told to jewish US zionists, to IMF, CIA and EU a big FUC* U.
I am eagre to see, how will the IMF make the next payout due in september.
There was this precondition, that the Kiev fascists will keep the territory.
Now with this move, Russia has moved the whole ukrainian thing into questionable area. Does Ukraine still exist in the borders of 1994?
Not any more. And further deterioration will follow.
The prime interest rate of Ua central bank is gone to 17.5%.
The budget situation is even with the foreign help out of control, or Ua will get until end of the year 50billion Euro.
"further provocation"
Does Fed-Gov actually expect us to believe that bullshit line?
I think we can stop listening to the motherfucker who created and funded ISIS in Syria and now is reversing course and wants to fight ISIS in Syria. He cannot be right on anything.
Haha, what bullshit.
If so, THIS is also True:
"The Ukraninans are painting NATO vehicles in Ukraine colors and using them on Russians."
screw DC Fascists and the puppet Merkel. She is on the way out anyway. Trucks are all back in Russia you US intel. (SS) morons.
Fark, America is being steam rolled by these mofo's in power. The people need to run these fascist/nazis down. WE DO NOT BELIEVE THE WAR MONGERING BS YOU KEEP SELLING. WE DO NOT WANT WAR! WE WANT PEACE AND TRADE. CLOSE DOWN THE MOFO FED, ITS ILLEGAL AND NOT FEDERAL. IT SERVES ITS PRIVATE SHAREHOLDERS (BIG BANKS).
Painting trucks... painting the tape... same difference. #FED.
Go long Sherwin Williams...
Which one debits your account more?
Beyond Orwell's 1984...
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f08_1408584207
James Foley - His Secret Life and the CIAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEtVNIYluzk
As the NSC statement says, it's simply disgraceful behavior by the Russians. However, stiff upper lip, jolly good, carry on, and deny everything until porkchops are fully cooked and lathered in chocolate.
In the old days people understood 'realpolitik'. One understood that the USA would not stand for Communist takeovers around the US like Grenada. Russia had its buffer countries also. Now the west thinks all they have to do is destabilize unwanted regimes like the old Ukraine and "Freedom and Democracy" will magically prevail. Please...take a look where we actually 'helped' freedom... Irak, Lybia, Egypt. If we liberate Syria then we have proven that we learned nothing from our mistakes and then we really do deserve a huge shit sandwich in form of ISIS. Ukrainias are notoriously corrupt, does not matter who is in power there and the west is pandering to these goons instead of telling them, "Look you have to work this out with the Russians" or no support.
Democracy is just a word that really means "mob rule". Six out of ten want you dead, so you're gonna die. A republic is 'the rule of law'. We don't see the republic thing working anymore. Now it's just mob rule, oops... I mean democracy.
obama = nobel peace prize ....................
obama = red lines, flexibility, alliances with enemies of the nation, nuclear proliferation, terrorism expansion, depression, weakness, treason
Where do they find these nasty, belligerent and utterly stupid women to serve as mouthpieces? This isn't just an Obama thing either. A corporation I work with hired a bunch of Texas debutantes out of the Bush Administration to do corporate PR, and their feckless, arrogant bungling has led to one PR hit after another.
So here we have "Caitlin Hayden." Add to the stack on which we find Jen Psaki (who either thinks Samarkand is right by Ukraine, or thinks we do), Samantha Power, Susan Rice, of course Nudelman, and no doubt I'm missing a lot of them. All intensely stupid, ignorant, arrogant, well-educated, elite-insider women.
I'm asking seriously, is there some organizational theory that favors using women to tell idiotic lies? Are they better at it? Does it play better on TV?
Is it Nudelman? Shouldn't it be Nudelwoman?
It doesn't sound as al dente.
The solution: 100 American adult non-government employees are chosen at random and flown to the area to look for themselves and live cam the trucks, fed right onto the net. We get nothing but lies from the propaganda machine that's in place. If the Red Cross is supposed to be there, then nobody in the Red Cross is verifying any of this? It's all too unbelievable to be real. i think the gov here is looking for any excuse, any reason whatsoever to pile military equipment into place over there. What threat is the Ukraine to us? None at all. But it would be a tremendous loss to not get involved, based on the potential loot that's there. Follow the money.
White House Accuses Russia Of Painting Military Vehicles White
If used for humanitarian missions, isn't that appropriate?
Obama and Merkel look like total liars and fools since the Russians have dropped off the aid and then truned around and withdrew the convoy.
The MSM has been deeply discredited as well for carrying the water for O&M.
How dare they paint those trucks white. They must return to the trucks with a bulls-eye painted on the roof.
Let's see violations of "internatonal law" , irritating the "international community", "violating Ukranian sovreignty", blah blah blah. Tell it to the hundredes of thousands of Iraqi civilians virtually murdered by USSA agression - or the slaughtered peasants of Afghanistan.
"Makes Billy Bob wanna kick some Ruski Behind, by damn - my country needs me, me, Billy Bob, I'm important "
La plus ca change
Merkel needs to watch one of the MOST important documentaries ever made:
"Hitler - The Greatest Story NEVER Told"
6.5 HOURS.
But 6.5 hours of the most important hours anybody could ever spend
watching a documentary.
Especially a German!
(let alone an average Human Being)
And if you're a Zionist forget it!
(You're toast!)
Just Sayin'!
The Truth Will Set You Free!
(so they say anyway)