Her true colours were evident ages ago
There is some love in going on between Germany and Russia
On Monday, 3 March 2014, Michael Kulyk <[email protected]> wrote:
> merkel shows she values russian gas above ukr lives
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> we now see her true colours
> and she knows putin is nuts
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> On Mar 3, 2014, at 7:08 AM, Walter Iwaskiw <[email protected]> wrote:
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> It's discouraging that Germany opposes expelling Russia from the G-8:
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> "In television interviews, Mr. Kerry suggested that the United States
> might impose sanctions, boycott the Sochi meeting in June and expel Russia
> from the G-8. Germany, however, publicly expressed opposition to expulsion,
> an ominous sign for Mr. Obama since any meaningful pressure would need
> support from Berlin."
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> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 9:06 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Sorry if somebody already posted this already
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> Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany told Mr. Obama by telephone on Sunday
> that after speaking with Mr. Putin she was not sure he was in touch with
> reality, people briefed on the call said. "In another world," she said.
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> Pressure Rising as Obama Works to Rein In Russia
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/03/world/europe/pressure-rising-as-obama-works-to-rein-in-russia.html?_r=0
> By PETER BAKER
> MARCH 2, 2014
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> WASHINGTON -- As Russia dispatched more forces and tightened its grip on
> the Crimean Peninsula on Sunday, President Obama embarked on a strategy
> intended to isolate Moscow and prevent it from seizing more Ukrainian
> territory even as he was pressured at home to respond more forcefully.
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> Working the telephone from the Oval Office, Mr. Obama rallied allies,
> agreed to send Secretary of State John Kerry to Kiev and approved a series
> of diplomatic and economic moves intended to "make it hurt," as one
> administration official put it. But the president found himself besieged by
> advice to take more assertive action.
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> "Create a democratic noose around Putin's Russia," urged Senator Lindsey
> Graham, Republican of South Carolina. "Revisit the missile defense shield,"
> suggested Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida. "Cancel Sochi,"
> argued Representative Mike Rogers, the Michigan Republican who leads the
> Intelligence Committee, referring to the Group of 8 summit meeting to be
> hosted by President Vladimir V. Putin. Kick "him out of the G-8"
> altogether, said Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the Democratic whip.
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> The Russian occupation of Crimea has challenged Mr. Obama as has no other
> international crisis, and at its heart, the advice seemed to pose the same
> question: Is Mr. Obama tough enough to take on the former K.G.B. colonel in
> the Kremlin -- It is no easy task. Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany told
> Mr. Obama by telephone on Sunday that after speaking with Mr. Putin she was
> not sure he was in touch with reality, people briefed on the call said. "In
> another world," she said.
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> That makes for a crisis significantly different from others on Mr. Obama's
> watch. On Syria, Iran, Libya and Egypt, the political factions in
> Washington have been as torn as the president over the proper balance of
> firmness and flexibility. But as an old nuclear-armed adversary returns to
> Cold War form, the consequences seem greater, the challenges more daunting
> and the voices more unified.
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> "It's the most important, most difficult foreign-policy test of his
> presidency," said R. Nicholas Burns, a career diplomat who became under
> secretary of state in the George W. Bush administration. "The stakes are
> very high for the president because he is the NATO leader. There's no one
> in Europe who can approach him in power. He's going to have to lead."
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> Mr. Obama came to office with little foreign-policy experience and has
> been repeatedly tested by a new world in which the main threats are Islamic
> extremism and civil war. While increasing drone strikes and initially
> building up forces in Afghanistan, he has made it his mission to pull out
> of two long wars and keep out of any new ones.
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> But the limits of his influence have been driven home in recent weeks,
> with Syria pressing its war against rebels and Afghanistan refusing to sign
> an agreement allowing residual American forces. Now the Crimea crisis has
> presented Mr. Obama with an elemental threat reminiscent of the one that
> confronted his predecessors for four decades -- a geopolitical struggle in
> the middle of Europe. First, the pro-Russian government in Kiev, now
> deposed, defied his warnings not to shoot protesters, and now Mr. Putin
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