Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to recover from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s stern scolding after Russia moved Tuesday to begin the annexation of Crimea.
Kerry warned Putin the action would place Russian on “the wrong side of history.”
Kerry offered the first high-level response to Putin’s defiant speech laying claim to Crimea as a historic part of Russia and criticizing the U.S. and Europe’s response to the crisis in front of an audience of students at the State Department.“I was really struck and somewhat surprised and disappointed by the interpretations and the facts as they were articulated by the president,” Kerry said. “With all due respect, they really didn’t jibe at all with reality or what’s happening on the ground.”
Kerry said it was clear that Russia had intended to complete its annexation of Crimea, and issued a stern warning against further Russian incursions into Eastern Ukraine by Putin’s government.
“We have made it very clear that that’s a hard line in terms of the level — I mean, that will be a major breach and I hope we don’t get there,” Kerry said of the possibility of a further Russian incursion into Ukraine’s east.
With tough talk like that we can almost hear the snickers from the Kremlin here in America.
Source: ABCNews
Rhonda Dover
If you are not a veteran send this to those that you know who are, or
to those who may know veterans.
(The 2014 United States elections will be held on Tuesday, November 4,
2014. During this midterm election year, all 435 seats in the United
States House of Representatives and 33 of the 100 seats in the United
States Senate will be contested in this election. GET OUT AND VOTE!!)
A movement has been started by our armed forces to get out the vote in
2014.. They are organizing themselves, but this can be done by all of
us. THE PRESIDENT, THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, HAS MADE THE RULES OF
ENGAGEMENT (ROE) SO DIFFICULT, THAT OUR TROOPS ARE OFTEN KILLED BEFORE
THEY CAN EVEN GET PERMISSION TO FIGHT. Nothing has been done to stop our
troops from being murdered by the Afghanis they are training, either.
NOW, THE PRESIDENT WANTS THE US TO SIGN ON TO THE UNS INTERNATIONAL
CRIMINAL COURT (ICC), WHICH WOULD ALLOW THE UN’S ICC TO ARREST AND TRY
US TROOPS FOR WAR CRIMES, WITHOUT THE LEGAL PROTECTIONS GUARANTEED UNDER
US LAW, AND FROM WHICH THERE IS NO APPEAL. THE PRESIDENT, WITH HIS
DEMOCRATIC CONTROL OF THE SENATE, HAS NEARLY ALL THE POWER. If the
Non-Establishment Republicans, and Conservatives, can take back the
Senate in 2014, our troops can once again be protected from unnecessary
danger. Please consider this, and send it on to your mailing lists.
Thank You. Interestingly enough, when GWB was president you heard about
the military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan almost daily. With Obama in
the White House, the mainstream media has been strangely quiet.
— MORE THAN 1,000 AMERICAN SOLDIERS HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES IN
AFGHANISTAN IN THE LAST 27 MONTHS. THIS IS MORE THAN THE COMBINED TOTAL
OF THE NINE YEARS BEFORE. Thirty have died in August. During the last
month, over 50 additional NATO and US servicemen have been murdered,
inside jobs by those who are hired to be a force for good in
Afghanistan.
THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF IS AWOL. Not a peep, although he ordered the
White House flag flown at half-staff for the Sikhs that were killed.
There is a deep disgust, a fury, growing in the ranks of the military
against the indifferent incompetence of this president.
It has taken on a dangerous tone. No one knows what to do about him, but
the anger runs deep as the deaths continue with no strategic end in
sight to the idiocy of this war. OBAMA HAS HAD 4 YEARS TO END THIS
FUTILE INSANITY, DURING WHICH TIME HE HAS VACATIONED, GOLFED,
CAMPAIGNED, AND GENERALLY IGNORED THE PLIGHT OF OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN
UNIFORM. But, there is now a movement afoot in the armed services to
launch a massive get out the vote drive against this president.
Not just current active duty types, but the National Guard, Reserves,
the retired, and all other prior service members. This is no small
special interest group, but many millions of veterans who can have an
enormous impact on the outcome of the November election if they all
respond.
The one million military retirees in Florida alone could mean an
overwhelming victory in that state if they all show up at the polls. It
might not keep another one hundred U.S. troops from dying between now
and November, but a turn out to vote by the military against this heart
breaking lack of leadership can make a powerful statement that hastens a
change to the indifference of this shallow little man who just lets our
soldiers die.
Veterans: Please forward to your lists. High Priority
He and Obama are in a dead end job.:)
I’m sure they are shaking in their boots,,,,
Whats he going to do with his hands wrestle with Putin? I’m putting my money on Putin!
this guy is a joke just like the rest of obamas crew
please read Timothy Lester’s comment
Hahahaha!!
Kerry should have kept selling ketchup . He does’t seem to have a clue. The people that are running this country all seem to need a new puppet master.
This $#%&!@* better keep her mouth shut!!!
Kerry is a JOKE !!!!!