Secretary of State John Kerry has declared “all options are on the table” with respect to Russia, though he later dialed that rhetoric back a bit, saying that this was focusing on “non-military options.”
Kerry and others in the administration are riled over Russia’s deployment of troops into the Crimea, and Kerry vowed that “Russia is going to lose, the Russian people are going to lose.”
Most officials are talking up sanctions against Russia to spite them for backing Crimean secession, and promising to “isolate” them internationally. Kerry also called for US companies to stop doing business with Russia, though as a practical matter this seems highly unlikely.
In the end, the Obama Administration is making a lot of idle threats, and GOP hawks are condemning them for not making even more. Though the US has military forces in the region, it is unthinkable that they would risk a full-scale land war with Russia over a peninsula with a majority Russian population which is almost certain to back secession in the pending referendum.
Just like the USA LOST in attacking GRANADA, IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, LIBYA all without any provocation from these Nations.
Why is it O.K. for the USA to attack Nations thousands of miles away from its shores and wrong for Russia to seek to safeguard its interest on their own doorstep??????
Andron, add Panama and Vietnam to that list!
Korea also
I caught a snippet of Kerry ranting about Russia and the Crimea and heard this: (loosely paraphrased…) "It's unconscionable to invade a sovereign nation based on trumped up facts…"
The Frau started laughing on that one. Imagine the stones it takes for the US Secretary of State to actually say that in front of the world's press – like this is something new and nefarious the US would NEVER consider doing, oh no…
Here's the exact quote: "“You just don’t in the 21st Century behave in 19th Century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pretext,” he said." Unless you are the USA, of course.
Or Britain Or Australia! The Australian Foreign Minister ordered the Russian Ambassador to please Explain she fails to comment she was part of the Australian Cabinet that allowed Australian Troops to invade Iraq! I bet she didn't complain when the US invaded Granada on an even lessor pretext! I also bet the US wouldn't countenance Japan suddenly deciding to throw out US military bases because the Government was overthrown, NO they would call that a Terrorist incursion and tens of thousands of troops would stream into the region from Guam and Korea, to PROTECT American interests!
Kerry can talk all the crap he wants, Obama does not want to go down in history as the man who starts WW3.
He slowly continues his descent into complete garbage. A true embarrassment on par with the Bush 2 regime.
If you start WWIII, there's no going down in history, there's just going down. It's amazing to see the great "patriotic" "bipartisanship" calling for war woth Russia. Freud spoke of "the death wish", I guess this is what it looks like in public. Rs and Ds, conservatives and liberals, joined at the larynx in the call for confrontation, the demonization of Putin. The duopoly in its most crystal clear application.
Back when I worked for NSA, during the Cold War, my specialty was the Soviet Navy. Even then, when no NSA resources or personnel were tasked with collection and analysis of the communications of US citizens, and we could entirely focus on legitimate foreign entities, we never knew where more than 50% of the Soviet nuclear-capable subs were. If these USA #1 warmongers really think they can carry out a successful first strike against the Russian nuclear arsenal, they're living in a fool's paradise. A couple dozen SLBMs (submarine launched ballistic missiles) will be sufficient to rain massive destruction down on the US in a second-strike formulation. Is that really what such an overwhelming majority of Americans want? To preserve the great historic (since 1954) status of the Crimea? Funny how this apparently sacred doctrine of territorial integrity was met with such casual dismissal in the case of Kosovo, which had only been the cradle of the Serb nation and part of Serb lands since 1383.
I'm old and sick now, have your nuclear war, it doesn't change so much for me. I'm amazed that the young are so anxious to end life as we know it on earth.
"… Is that really what such an overwhelming majority of Americans want?…"
There are a number, probably larger than what has been talked about or reported, that look upon these world events as precursors of Armageddon and Apocalypse…and they are excited by (they believe) coming Rapture where they claim the true believers will be claimed by their god and elevated from this earth. In fact, some of them actively support efforts to bring about this end. Obviously they don't have much faith in their God since they feel he is incapable of doing these things himself.
They are delusional and arrogant, but that's just my opinion…
"… Is that really what such an overwhelming majority of Americans want?…"
There are a number, probably larger than what has been talked about or reported, that look upon these world events as precursors of Armageddon and Apocalypse…and they are excited by (they believe) coming Rapture where they claim the true believers will be claimed by their god and elevated from this earth. In fact, some of them actively support efforts to bring about this end. Obviously they don't have much faith in their God since they feel he is incapable of doing these things himself.
They are delusional and arrogant, but that's just my opinion…
As for being a overwhelming majority of Americans? Most definitely not, but don't tell the true believers that…
If I may borrow a quote from Shakespeare's, Macbeth.
"That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
You never know. These people are batshit crazy. They believe their own BS
Bad Cop would seem to be all bark today…
Starting to think of WH/cabinet threats as more like 'confessions' of where someone- -who we might tend to presume is USg-proper -acted. Markers, if-you-will. If Kerry threatens you, his friends have already burgled you.
Go ahead Kerry and invade Russia like the King of Sweden, Napoleon and Hitler, Just what America needs.
This assumes the Russians are going to provide the United States a high chair and a bib– both will be necessary given the messes created the other times it has had a "All options are on the table" tantrum.
********************* "All options are on the table" ????????????????? *******************
** Then I suggest suicide… !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Perhaps Victoria Nuland can solve this with cookies…
Forget the last desperate acts of Vicki Nuland and the rest of the Neocons in Ukraine … IT'S TOO LATE for the Neocons
THIS IS THE 2nd American Revolution – the Removal of American Zionist (Pro-Apartheid) Control over the US Political Process.
The 2nd American Revolution is the Removal of AIPAC's Girl Hillary – 'The Next AIPAC President' – because – SINGLE ISSUE – she IS AIPAC's Girl.
THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION = Freedom from AIPAC (and AIPAC's Next President).
Calling Karl Rove ….
American Zionists (Andrea Mitchell, David Brooks, Eric Alterman, Hillary Clinton) are OUT IN THE OPEN – the Whole Jewish Culture supporting ETHNIC CLEANSING Israel is in COMPLETE STRATEGIC COLLAPSE – hello ICC 6 months from now for APARTHEID
AIPAC is also in COMPLETE STRATEGIC COLLAPSE with Kristol tearing it apart for not going down with the Apartheid ship.
HILLARY is out in the OPEN still completely supporting the Apartheid and it's sponsor AIPAC, as Israel craters into the ICC
Hillary is FIXED IN PLACE on her AIPAC horse as AIPAC-APARTHEID freefall to the ICC in September
Hillary Clinton is FREE-FALLING to the ICC chained to AIPAC which is CHAINED to Apartheid.
APARTHEID, AIPAC, and AIPAC's Girl Hillary ARE ALL TOAST, but NONE of them know it yet. Hillary is out in the OPEN – chained to AIPAC and she can't get off and she can't stay on
Israel is in PANIC mode – AIPAC is in PANIC mode – and NOW Hillary is in PANIC mode
AIPAC will be FORCED to register as the agent of a foreign hostile state and the US will be FREE
A funny thing to Hillary sitting on her AIPAC-horse. The horse exploded – and HILLARY WAS HOIST ON HER OWN PETARD
John Kerry is a disgrace. Oozing hypocrisy from every pore of his body.
Ah – it is ONLY the American Empire that is allowed to attack countries that have neither threatened nor attacked US – doesn't Russia know this?
2nd American Revoution
Bibi and AIPAC left the rotten Apartheid COMPLETELY EXPOSED – and now we take out Hillary (2nd Amerian Rev) and ‘Judaism as Zionist’
The Strategy:
1- Successful 2nd American Revolotion: American Free of Neocons/Zionists [and free of AIPAC's girl Hillary (2nd Amerian Rev)]
2- Judaism Free of Zionism
The Tactics:
1- Force AIPAC to register as agent of hostile foreign power then make it ILLEGAL
2- Shame ‘All American Jewry’ and ‘All American Zionism’ – re-dedicate Judaism to SERVING Palestinians
Let's see go head to head with Russia in Russia is on the table. That could be disastrous. Neocons are more stupid than we could posibly imagine.
This old fool better watch his threats. Somebody may actually take him seriously and DO something about it.
Notice Kerry back tracked when some advisor nudged him about that "ALL options" on the table nonsense. It is entirely possible any serious economic or military move against Russia would bring in China to Russia's side. Since we have managed to make enemies of the entire globe save Israel and the UK, anything is possible.
Forgot Harper'S Canada :^(
***************** "It is entirely possible any serious economic or military move against Russia would bring in China to Russia's side"………………………………………………….
Good call Gereng…….. It happened while you were typing your comment…!!! Hillarious Hillary's pit bull hyper-Neocon Victoria Nuland was handing out cookies to the protesters in Kiev….. Do you, dear readers, think that they had any idea that their putsch of the elected president Viktor Yanukovich would lead to Putin makin moves on the Crimea, and (gasp) perhaps even more…… Oh well it's a half a loaf…. I guess the question is, how many cookies equals a half a loaf…???? Stay tuned for your hot off the rumor mill updates and of course the latest cookie kunt………………
God Bless Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, defender of FREEDOM loving peoples everywhere.
Njet to American or anybody else domination or hegemony of OUR Planet.
RockyRococo. You are wrong. The US Navy can track and destroy all enemy submarines simultaneously according to missile engineer Bob Aldridge -www.plrc.org Please see Robert C. Aldridge: Nuclear Empire, ch. 9 and research papers on Extreme Low Frequency, etc. on http://www.plrc.org NAVSTAR, now called GPS, was made for Minuteman-3 and Trident-2 to be able to hit missile silos accurately. Bob Aldridge on the missiles in Romania, Poland and on 32 ships in the Mediterranean Sea (4 now stationed in Cadiz), called European Phased Adaptive Approach: "Whether they are on ships or land, they are still a necessary component for an unanswerable first strike." The missiles will be deployed by 2018 and this leads to Launch On Warning by 2017 followed by Suicide by mistake. Please help make the Pentagon understand: THERE IS NO DEFENSE AGAINST LAUNCH ON WARNING !!!
Lots of militaries think they have some new secret weapon that will win them a war. History suggests otherwise. The French thought the mitrailleuse would let them defeat Prussia in 1870. WW1 saw posion gas, the flamethrower, tanks etc. None of these secret weapons did the trick.