Sounds like Obama gave Putin..
"If Russia continues on its current course, we have a range of tools at our disposal, including sanctions that would target certain sectors of the Russian economy, and we have been consulting closely with our European and G7 partners"
But then not so much:
But, noting that energy resources flowed from Russia to the continent even throughout the Cold War, he said that the notion of "turning off the tap" of natural gas and oil would be "unrealistic."
I bet Putin is worried as hell now.
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So if the tap was shut off, do you have a tap in mind to replace it? Didn't think so.MikeDamone said:A strongly worded rebuke:
"If Russia continues on its current course, we have a range of tools at our disposal, including sanctions that would target certain sectors of the Russian economy, and we have been consulting closely with our European and G7 partners"
But then not so much:
But, noting that energy resources flowed from Russia to the continent even throughout the Cold War, he said that the notion of "turning off the tap" of natural gas and oil would be "unrealistic."
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What should he have said, fag? We're going to nuke Moscow?
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Well, if what you say is a option he should have said stop your shit or NATO is going to get medieval on your ass. But that's not going to happen. So he will continue with strong rebukes and not doing anything meaningful economically...such as turning off the gas as you suggested was an option...now, not so much.PostGameOrangeSlices said:What should he have said, fag? We're going to nuke Moscow?
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Voted down for missing $75k finePostGameOrangeSlices said:What should he have said, fag? We're going to nuke Moscow?
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You're right Einstein, know why?MikeDamone said:
Well, if what you say is a option he should have said stop your shit or NATO is going to get medieval on your ass. But that's not going to happen.PostGameOrangeSlices said:What should he have said, fag? We're going to nuke Moscow?
Because Ukraine fucked themselves and didn't join NATO. They had a chance to, and decided to make closer ties to Russia.
Lot of good that did them.
Like I said, no one gives a fuck about Ukraine. That country was dumb enough to not join NATO and hand over their nukes. They're reaping what they have sown. -
I'm hoping that there is a lot of behind the scenes talking and action being taken. It isn't surprising that the President isn't talking tough given that Ukraine is not under the NATO Article 5 umbrella.
Ideally we should be working on basing arrangements for a substantial troop presence in Poland, Romania and the Baltics, initiating talks to bring Sweden and Finland formally into NATO, and a contingency plan to help the Euros wean themselves off Russian gas+oil, starting this winter.
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Putin can roll into Poland and we will tell him to LEAVE in no uncertain terms. That's allPostGameOrangeSlices said:
You're right Einstein, know why?MikeDamone said:
Well, if what you say is a option he should have said stop your shit or NATO is going to get medieval on your ass. But that's not going to happen.PostGameOrangeSlices said:What should he have said, fag? We're going to nuke Moscow?
Because Ukraine fucked themselves and didn't join NATO. They had a chance to, and decided to make closer ties to Russia.
Lot of good that did them.
Like I said, no one gives a fuck about Ukraine. That country was dumb enough to not join NATO and hand over their nukes. They're reaping what they have sown. -
No.MikeDamone said:
Putin can roll into Poland and we will tell him to LEAVE in no uncertain terms. That's allPostGameOrangeSlices said:
You're right Einstein, know why?MikeDamone said:
Well, if what you say is a option he should have said stop your shit or NATO is going to get medieval on your ass. But that's not going to happen.PostGameOrangeSlices said:What should he have said, fag? We're going to nuke Moscow?
Because Ukraine fucked themselves and didn't join NATO. They had a chance to, and decided to make closer ties to Russia.
Lot of good that did them.
Like I said, no one gives a fuck about Ukraine. That country was dumb enough to not join NATO and hand over their nukes. They're reaping what they have sown.
This isn't ww2, with polish cavalry getting mowed down by german panzers. Poland is getting pretty serious about their military, now that they are in NATO and doing good economically.
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/2ae1e101196d
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Yeah, but none of that will happen.AZDuck said:I'm hoping that there is a lot of behind the scenes talking and action being taken. It isn't surprising that the President isn't talking tough given that Ukraine is not under the NATO Article 5 umbrella.
Ideally we should be working on basing arrangements for a substantial troop presence in Poland, Romania and the Baltics, initiating talks to bring Sweden and Finland formally into NATO, and a contingency plan to help the Euros wean themselves off Russian gas+oil, starting this winter.
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Poland is a NATO member in good standing. Putin rolling into Poland would be the same as Putin rolling into London, Berlin, Paris, or Yelm.
