Vice President Joe Biden is in Kiev, Ukraine today, and as you might imagine the visit focused on condemnation of neighboring Russia. But Biden didn’t show up empty-handed, pledging $58 million more in US aid for the nation.
This round of US aid will mostly be centered on the upcoming Ukrainian national election, which aims to formalize the regime change imposed by violent protests last month.
Biden spent the rest of the time vowing the US would “never recognize” Russia’s annexation of the Crimea, and demanding Russia forcibly compel eastern Ukrainians, many of whom are ethnic Russians, to stop protesting for increased autonomy.
Biden went on to threaten “increasingly harsh” sanctions against Russia if the protests continue, something State Department officials were saying yesterday. Russia insists it can’t actually force protesters in another country not to protest, and insists the US is dramatically over-estimating its influence.
Joe Biden and John Kerry, what’s the different.., absolutely nothing. They are the most clueless and ignorant upperclass far right democrats out there.
And a much bigger majority of the world will never accept the annexation of Palestine, which the USA has been single-handedly overseeing for forty years.
That's not to mention the de facto annexation of the torture centers Gitmo, and the annexation of Diego Garcia, or Hawaii, or Puerto Rico, or Mexico, or the USA.
there's a pattern developing…
Hard to know if he is just totally oblivious to the hypocrisy in his utterances or just a two faces rat. “No nation can just take by force another nations territory” unless of course that nation is Israel. “No country should be supporting armed invasion by people with no insignia of a neighbouring state” unless it is Turkey Jordan Saudi Arabia etc doing so in Syria.
You forgot the obvious, Iraq and Afghanistan by the criminal America
Well Mr. Bite-Me, you can do just that, since the return of Crimea to Russia is a done deal and yours and your colleagues Obama, Kerry, Nuland and Brennan's third-rate clown act isn't scaring anyone anymore, least of all Putin. Leave the people of Ukraine and Russia alone and go back to your Third World banana republic, clowns.
Biden was Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee before he left Congress, yet it is clear that the guy is an ignoramus and clueless about the history of the region or of the facts on the ground.
When leaders get it so wrong, their claims to legitimacy disappear and no one should follow them.
As a complete idiot, Biden fits right in with the rest of Obama's administration.
Sorry Carroll, he fits well in any American Administration from Johnson until now
Our country is broke but yet we throw tax payers money around to everybody. Who cares let Russia have Ukraine. Our kids are getting student loans at a 8.9% interest rate from the Government but yet we toss money to other countries like nothing.
We are not broke, when it comes to making other people lives miserable……"print more money," or borrow it from China……"only in a America."
Apparently Biden does not believe in self-determination, voting, freedom and democracy via the ballot box. He also does not believe in freedom of speech and expression. What an azz-hole and major hypocrite.
Since we are tossing so much money into Ukraine, and treating it like it is our 51st state, why not get a better phone system that will allow the new "govmernent" to at least get in touch with the country they presumably rule. As of now, they are obsessing over the Southeast, while in the West, Kyev does not control not a single region, county, courtroom, police station or military base. At this point Galicia is better armed then Kyev government. Now, if they would just make some phone calls to see who answers the phone at their various regional offices, they wil be able to communicate — be that tneir officials, or the protesters. As it stand now, they are hunkered down in the offices they occupied. They may actually sleep there, as they are all the time unshaven when giving their annoucements. Getting out, getting some fresh air, making some phone calls — might do them more good then just sloganeering anti-Russian, bad cold war redux.
Putin's broken promise not to annex Crimea deprives him of all credibility. Let's see what he does after the 25 May election or perhaps more importantly, whether voters in all Ukrrainian provinces will be allowed a free and fair vote under proper international supervision and free from the intimidating presence of unidentified armed bands or of intimidating threats of a Russian invasion whatever way they vote.
Where's the duct tape when you really need it ….
It's time to get into the streets. Time for an American Spring. Antiwar.com needs to start the organizing.
Being a DemocRAT causes one's brain to shrink and then disappear – proof positive of the brainless DemocRATS are Joe Biden, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Hrry Reid, and so myers – as to our Dictator Obama, just a traitor to America with an agenda to destroy US.
I would like to see him say the USA will never recognize the annexation of the Golan heights by Israel. But I am not holding my breath.
Crimea will not revert back to Ukraine .That is a given. As in Viet Nam the war mongers have met their match. However, there still are profits to be made by the armaments industry. Consequently we have all this posturing.
As for eastern and southern Ukraine, I think Putin would prefer they stay with Ukraine. Russian influence will still be strong, preventing Ukraine joining NATO.
Maybe no one gives a damn what the psychotic USG recognizes.