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US Ambassador To Cyprus Withdrawn After Diplomatic Blunder Involving Nemtsov Murder
US Ambassador to Cyprus, John Koenig, was forced to issue a clarifying statement on Monday, after a series of tweets on Sunday, about President Anastasiades’ recent Russia visit, sparked a hostile reaction from Anastasiades, the Archbishop, the political parties and journalists. As RedPillTimes reports, Koenig has been promptly "relieved of duty" after he posted on his Twitter account what was essentially a clever ploy to link Cyprus President Anastasiades (who recently visited Moscow) to the assassination of Boris Nemtsov. Anastasiades was furious, calling Koenig's tweet "exceedibly undiplomatic," adding that it "creates 'icy' bilateral relations."
As RedPillTimes reports, in the Twitter conversation...
What do people in #Cyprus think about the week in Russia as seen from here? Anastasiades visit and statements, #Nemtsov assassination?
— John M. Koenig (@AmbJohnKoenig) March 1, 2015
...Ambassador Koenig even goes as far as accusing the Cypriot President of hanging out with ‘bad company’... in reference to Russia’s democratically elected and wildly popular President Vladimir Putin.
@AHadjikyriacos As I have explained to another, week was big on close CY-RUS rels, ended with killing of Nemtsov. The company you keep.
— John M. Koenig (@AmbJohnKoenig) March 1, 2015
@AmbJohnKoenig @AHadjikyriacos the company we keep that's rich coming frm u wth al the despots & dictators the US has supported over the yrs
— kyriacos kyriacou (@kyrikmk) March 1, 2015
And Koenig also tried to imply that Putin was the mastermind behind the murder...
“I wouldn’t suggest Anastasiades is linked to Nemtsov assassination. Be real. But Putin could be.”
Of course Koenig is not a forensic expert, Moscow homicide detective, or even US Ambassador to Russia, but he still felt he needed to jump on the western media “Trash Russia” express train.
@AHadjikyriacos I wouldn't suggest Anastasiades is linked to Nemtsov assassination. Be real. But Putin could be.
— John M. Koenig (@AmbJohnKoenig) March 1, 2015
In a statement he issued on Monday, Koenig said
“My question on Twitter, ‘What do people in #Cyprus think about the week in Russia as seen from here? Anastasiades visit and statements, #Nemtsov assassination?’ was misunderstood”.
The US Embassy has announced that another diplomat will be named to take the place of John Koenig, adding that Koenig`s term as US Ambassador to the Republic of Cyprus is for three years and his departure in the Summer of 2015 has always been anticipated. Of course it has.
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His tweets, not the type expected from an ambassador, seemed calculated to provoke, although he denied this was his intention. But the truth is, regardless of his intentions, his comment did provoke because it was undiplomatic and out of order.
The original tweet said: “What do people in #Cyprus think about the week in Russia as seen from here? Anastasiades visit and statements, #Nemtsov assassination?” On Monday, Koenig said, “it is unfortunate that some suggested I linked the two issues,” and explained that he “simply wanted to get the reaction of the Cypriot people on two different issues.” This was not the most convincing response and the ambassador is smart enough to know that his tweet could have been interpreted in the way many of his followers had interpreted it.
And he persisted with the link in subsequent tweets: “Week was big 4 Cyprus-Russia, ended with killing of Nemtsov,” tagging on the snide remark, “The company you keep.” Was this remark not intended to “provoke or imply anything”, as he claimed yesterday? If it were not he would not have put the two issues together.
Whatever has happened to traditional diplomacy, of carefully-drafted documents being delivered to the foreign ministry of a country and ambassadors restricting their rarely-made public comments to non-controversial issues? And since when do ambassadors seek people’s reactions to events through social media? It is not as if Koenig’s followers on Twitter represented a cross-section of Cypriot society.
The reaction to the ambassador’s tweets was not restricted to his followers. Even Anastasiades [Cyprus President] felt obliged to make a public statement.
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Is it any wonder the world questions the unipolar reign of America when people like this are 'representing' them? Right or wrong, his comments are simply ridiculous for an ambassador to speculate on. As President Anastasiades stated...
“When an ambassador, instead of helping to improve relations constantly creates a coldness [in relations] he is not doing his best either for his country or the country to which he is accredited,”
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And then there's this...
This unfortunately is Russia today: Pravda says 90% probability that CIA killed "their Russian agent Nemtsov". http://t.co/wdnlwxtJq3
— Carl Bildt (@carlbildt) February 28, 2015
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Exceptionalism in full display.
....but this time in reverse
Need adult supervision
Nemtsov murder: Putin warned about exactly this type of “false flag” three years ago
He's lucky he did not suffer the same fate as US Envoy in Sth Korea.
http://rt.com/usa/237825-us-ambassador-skorea-attacked/
Seems that it's not safe for americans in some places
LoL
Americans do not understand the frustration of many in S Korea and Taiwan over the forced separation of families. And they are increasingly blaming the US for this multi-generational policy.
Several years ago, the cadets in S Korea's military training academy were asked which nation posed the greatest threat to S Korea. A plurality (possibly a majority but I can not remember for sure) said the US over China, Japan, and N Korea.
I can't wait to see the Bamster's face when Cyprus starts hosting Ruskie air and naval units for "unity" shows, etc....
They just can't waste a good crisis. So, who asked him to do it? Doesn't sound like something you'd just throw out there..
This.
No ambassador with a modicum of a brain cell would say anything like this, let alone tweet it.
The Nulandization of US foreign policy. Terminal phase. It can't get any lower. Amateurs with access to the N-button.
++1000 ^^^^
I'd bet gold against dollars he was put up to stirring this shit.
Yup.
America is losing friends everywhere and instead of acknowledging why it has decided to try to cool the relationships of others as well. Of course its just making it worse for American but we are talking about narcissistic sociopathic US politicians.
I hope I live to see the Nuremberg style "trials" and court punishments of all these US gov assholes.
On the other hand, the more nations the US pisses off, the more nations will offer political asylum for those who want to escape once the prison gates are completed.
This will prob end with 5-eyes vs world for the big WW3 aka "US tries to first strike nuke whole planet in tantrum".
I bet the UK would break apart too and just leave the English with the US.
The US is quickly morphing into the guy at the bar that buys drinks for everyone, shots and all during happy hour, but eventually staggers around until closing time harrassing the locals until everyone realizes he's just a drunken asshole.
Cheers!
Yeah, all this failure is by accident, sure thing there pal.
The chronic shitshow at State for the last 20 years has cost America her empire. From insisting that Muslim Leadership deal and negotiate with three consecutive women Secretary's of State to the contry bumpkin above, arrogance and hubris has defined the American State to the world for far too long. That is what is acalled "arrogance"
And apparently this asshole is a career State Dept Foreign Service Office bureaucrat. My guess was that he was another of Obama's bundlers.
That is truly FUCKING SHOCKING.
Has the foreign service technocrat class really devolved that much in the 8 years since Twitter was founded? I may write really offensive things on a fringe blog, and a lot of slightly less offensive things in internal communications, but in an official public statement??? Doesn't the Ambassador have a coffee bitch whose other job it is to"clean things up" before they hit the wire?
UR, it - sadly - does not shock me. The "Foreign Service" of the US was always of lower quality, at the top, compared to that of the UK, for example
then Cameron asked a British Foreign Service to be more focused on "Selling British" abroad, a further deterioration
but US Ambassadors? a steady increase of campaign money gifters among them, in steady devolution
Spot on /// you make too much sense. I would add our foreign policy . economic policy went south right after the Cold War endded .. and has been skidding ever since.. now . the cess pool ending is in sight. .. This ambassador .. indicative of amateur hour and loopy feminization with a neocon spin of US policy on lots of levels. ... Clinton brought a level of 60s radicalism to State and its been down hill since. Its in the Pentagon now as well.
And the hits keep coming... In this case it's like banging your head into a locked door in an attempt to open it (because you're too dumb to know how a door is supposed to function).
Maybe it is more like slamming the head of your victim into a locked door in an attempt to kill him. No regime in history has had this kind of failure rate, never ever. There is no way this is all incompetence or accident.
Facebook/Twitter diplomacy seems to be the rage at the US State Department these days.
Its shows.
Youtube.
Diplomacy. In 140 characters or less.
Embassadors are nothing but glorified sales reps.
Embarassadors.
When will Twitter die?
Full retard. Period.
Good chance of becoming the next Sec of State
He would be a step-up from Mr. Ed.
These people get dumber and dumber. This guy never grew up. It's like the US has stupid interns in the role of Ambassador. I'm not surprised. The typical investment banking intern is famous for only getting coffee, making copies, and generally wasting time.
Zero knowledge of history, very poor emotional IQ and near-zero diplomatic skills.
Sounds like a promotion awaits a State dept employee with these qualifications!
I doubt he made these statements without prior approal and coordinated planning. He was to leave the country soon and even if that was not so this was done to produce an effect. Cyprus simply has allowed Russian naval ships to dock so a campaign to demonize the leader is started.
It would be smart if the govt of Cyprus would isolate the new US ambassador and the current leadership would be wary of CIA instigated political troubles.
Pravda's commentary on the Nemtsov murder:
Needless to say too, unscrupulousness is entirely in character for the American government. Rulers that killed, say, over one-quarter of a century, 2.5 million Iraqis on false pretenses, brought total chaos to this ancient and proud civilization, and left behind, forever, an environmental wasteland, are capable of any crimes whatsoever. They would kill 1,000,000,000 Nemtsovs to achieve their goals, without once blinking an eye or suffering a single sleepless night.
So, in my view, the probability that the Russian government is behind the killing of Boris Nemtsov is close to zero, while the probability of involvement of the CIA and its allies and stooges is well over 90%.
And this, right here and now, before the dust of the bullets that terminated the life of Boris Nemtsev settles, allows us to make two predictions.
The first prediction is this. The captive Western media will go out of their way to demonize Putin and attribute Nemtsov's assassination to him. Day and night we shall be bombarded with stories of the defiant and heroic Nemtsov and the perfidious and murderous Putin. By the time they are done, the average Westerner or Japanese will be almost as familiar with Boris Nemtsov as she had been with Lee Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan, Patricia Hearst, or Osama Bin Laden. No real evidence will be presented against Putin, for these villains understand human psychology far better than their opponents-repeat a lie often enough and you would have succeeded in smearing your opponent and justifying your plan of murdering him.
The second prediction is this. The CIA will orchestrate anti-Putin demonstrations the world over. We shall have anti-Putin concocted marches not only in the port city commanded by Wall Street, not only in the river city commanded by the City of London, not only in the ancient city commanded by the Vatican, but everywhere the CIA can stir up trouble. More importantly-and this is one probable reason Nemtsov was killed - there would be demonstrations by traitorous, naïve, ignorant, or misinformed Russians.
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/28-02-2015/129934-boris_nemt...
...at the end of the day the CIA and Putin bat for the same team, it's just not been made clear yet, hence all the confusion
oligarchs rarely fight each other, they've moved past that paradigm, that's for the junior varsity mafia crews
I think you make a boo boo dickhead, the only confusion is in your small cranial cavity .. 86% of Russian knows Putin is on their team.
It hasn't played out yet. He is popular, no doubt. He was also FSB and a lot of the things he does are kind of questionable. Russia's improvement in trade with the US, despite sanctions, smacks of a joint effort to undermine the EU, for example.
The only person you can trust is yourself (sometimes) and the friend willing to bleed for you. I don't see anyone living in a palace as that guy.
You must mean Team Orwell
World Champions since 1984.
OUCHSKI ! Good one Pravda !
Probability of a politically motivated assassination is directly proportional to the popularity rating. In Nemtsov's case it would be <5%.
The clumsiness of language of this U.S. diplomatic rep is breathtaking. These people are so used to dealing with an absolutely gullible U.S. public, that they think everyone in the world is blind to logic or their own longterm interests.
Their contempt for our ability to think or remember or even calculate our own interests leads to blunder after blunder. More to come, we are sure!
typical usa governor
chosen vs. exceptional
Can Netanyahu live on commissions from supplying mattresses for Asian whore houses?
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/03/04/the-end-of-netanyahu/
High ranking Pentagon officials openly joked about shooting down Netanyahu’s plane. The Israeli National News (Aruz Sheva) claimed Obama had ordered the US Navy to shoot down any Israeli war planes in range, an order they claim still stands.
we are trully [ex]ceptional
Agents of the Empire ain't too smart these days. They might end up giving the game away.
And in other news, CNN's aviation expert Jeff Wise(nthal) is saying MH370 was flown to Kazakhstan on Putin's orders. And the Australian press puts it in the front page.
http://m.smh.com.au/world/mh370-flew-to-kazakhstan-jeff-wise-outlines-ne...
They love conspiracy theories when they favour their narrative.
Just a thought excersise. What if Obama is a real marxist but is playing the hand dealt to him - puppet. But, in order to bring down the evil empire he is simply being as incompetent as possible. The standing up to Israel, if real, is interesting.
usa are losing one country after another
When we'll finish with the foreign countries, are we going to start the same process with our own states ?
mb we will see civil war in america and it's one of the future maps
http://alternathistory.org.ua/files/050909_Map_raspada_USA.jpg
it's still unknown so i hope you will not see it because world will loose too much from this too
No way in hell South Carolina is going to join up with the northeastern states. NC might, but SC is strongly opposed to the Boston-NY-DC crowd, culturally and politically. SC is much much much closer to Georgia in character than any state further north. It would have to be conquered, and it would resist the northeastern states in the same manner that the Donbass is resisting Kiev.
Also, that whole northeastern conglomeration would be necessarily temporary, as they simply don't have the resources to support their population without extensive economic colonization of the rest of the US and the world.
"Canadian influence " ?? LOL ! Thanks for the laugh of the day... Also, Idaho looks a bit weird attached to the Chinese sphere of co-prosperity, but that's just me ;)
I'm not so much concerned about being connected to China, but over my dead body will we be linked to California!
Only the greens and Alaska are even imaginable. As if 37M Canucks could influence all the people in the midwest or Mexico could shine brighter than the whole southeast. The Carolinas joining the EU?
One suspects a civil war is exactly the plan in order to bring in Chinese (and others) "peacekeepers" on a fairly permanent basis. One also suspects that such a civil war will spread into fairly resource rich areas of Canada and Mexico and so those areas will need to be occupied to keep the peace.
They were never ours to begin with.
WTF is wrong with these people? Seriously, I am getting very, very embarrassed here, as an American...
Hey, whichever country ends up de-throning us, I just want to let you know that NONE of this was my idea...None of it, any of it, today or for the past hundred years. I am as outraged as you are...
That being said, I AM an American, and am trying extremely HARD to be exceptional, and not an international asshole like so many of our various "representatives", but my tiny voice does not get heard, and no one would pay attention if I "tweeted" anything.
Completely embarrassed to be from the same country as this walking talking fuckstick obama appointee
You still think this is not deliberate, how cute.
This guy is either drinking way too much, or is a Homer Simpson understudy.
What can you expect from an ambassador if Victoria Nuland is Assistant Secretary of State (fuck the EU)
Why remove him? He exemplifies what is known as the "ugly American" very well.
Probably a promotion from obie
Victoria Nuland must feel like a proud mama !
I guess we can add "Nemtsov killing was US provocation in retaliation for expansion of Russian influence into Cyprus" to the hypotheses list. Not something I would have guessed but has to be considered a plausible possibility in light of the explicit linkage by the ambassador.
Amateur hour.
Amateur idiot hour.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/04/politics/ambassador-attacked-south-korea/index.html
Real ambassadorial. What a diplomatic diplomat.
Must have been a pleasant little posting, too. Tiny dot of an island in the Med. Only about a million people. Nothing has happened there for 40 years.
But now it's back to DC, and then I'd expect a posting to some godawful dump as punishment. Be interesting to see where.
http://cyprus.usembassy.gov/theembassy/ambassador.html
CIA
Jesus H Christ but the Israeli/London/American complex is fucking desperate!
US Ambassador's or US Foreign Policy are not exactly winning Hearts & Minds OCONUS are they now ?
S. Korea Ambassador Lippert got Razored in the Mug today as well. How's that PR & foreign policy working for ya ?
The stupid it burns....
Career FS.
These guys need to be ordered to stay off all these twitters and facebooks.
These is a centuries old formula for proper diplomatic exchange and this is NOT it.
Tweeting? How manly of you, Mr. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America.
Not to worry, Chelsey Manning is paying for these secure tweets.
He is just follow Hillary protocol...
OPEN MOUTH
INSERT COCK
Classless unelected bastards. And they'll be clueless as to the blood on their hands if/when this shit goes hot. Where the fuck are the statesmen? Not in this administration for sure.
mustn't forget this
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31632259
Where oh where are the hasbara?
here we have a true jewish patriot ambassador being slandered for just pointiing out the obvious...
oh wait, its after 5.
After my break.
Tweeting - the new brain-fart.
This has been a rough week for US embassadors.
need leave tweeting to Rogozin...
https://twitter.com/DRogozin/.
The guy was obviously confused when the royal Clinton email service was abruptly shut down and thought that twitter would be a secure channel. I hear the service is only out of commission for a while while the domain name gets upgraded to;
herMajesty@theBlueQueen.com
It is also rumored that it will replace all U.S. Government secure communication channels in about two years.
We annoyed some people...
Its getting to where you can't tell the difference between political appointees and veteran state dept personnel.
The sad truth about opposition leaders like Nemtsov (in ANY country), is that they are "Plug, Play and Pray" players.
This is based on the timeless aphorism that NO one is irreplaceable.
Moral: Every opposition leader can and eventually IS replaced. One way or another, by one side or another. 'Lead' and live accordingly.
p.s. Putin is right that this looks bad, when a prominent person can't even take an evening stroll near the Kremlin. In the US version, it'd be like Sen. McInsane getting whacked at the DC Mall, the perps got away and no one had a clue who did it.
"Knife-wielding attacker slashes face of U.S. ambassador in South Korea"
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/05/us-southkorea-usa-ambassador-i...
Well done that Korean ! Should happen ALL over the Globe --in every Country with war mongers masquerading as Ambassadors.
Better than "letters to the editor" that won't be printed.Ah, diplomats...........This guy will make a great candidate for president. Tweet, Tweet Ambassador John Koenig.
I thought John Koenig was a character in Lost In Space on TV ?
The necons at State Dep. do a great job for all Americans.
We, not exceptional and not indispensable people of the Erath, we love you, Americans.
Just to be clear I gave you an up point,because I presumed your post was sarcastic.
That Carl Bildt guy is really a government sponsored troll. The link he posted leads to an op-ed by Moti Nissani, yet he (Bildt) misleads his audience by presenting it as an "article by Pravda newspaper". And people buy it. No wonder the EU is in the crapper.
does anyone think merkel will let germany go down with the usa paddlewheel queen and the british pedopounders? the usa has become a living satire. comedians can't write stuff this good.