On Sunday, Ambassador Nikki Haley announced that the US would be sanctioning Russia, and that the Treasury Department would offer the details on Monday. The White House says that isn’t the case, and indeed that they never had any intention of Haley making the announcement.
“We would not have rolled out sanctions through somebody saying them on a Sunday show,” White House officials noted. They said Trump hadn’t ruled out new sanctions, but had no intention of imposing any at this time.
Some reports are suggesting that Trump directly overruled his advisers on the sanctions. This suggests they may have been planning to just go through with new sanctions without a presidential imprimatur, though that has not been confirmed.
The State Department has yet to offer an explanation of how Haley got so mixed up on this matter. It may be another example of the administration’s general hawkishness toward Russia getting ahead of their ability to sell Trump on such measures.
Still, this does harm to Haley’s credibility. She’s been the public face of the administration too often for a US Ambassador to the UN. One positive to emerge is that Haley’s statements cannot necessarily be treated as gospel White House policy.
Something tells me Haley’s gang will win. Since when does a US President have any power in his administration anyway.
Dump Haley. She is just a swamp creature kept around to mollify the other Imperial Elite. And she is hardly a diplomat, rather a loose neocon cannon. Her wild words like those of Samantha Powers and others before her in the last 18 years are a threat to all of humanity. Trump should can her asap.
Weird how interchangeable her and Susan Powers are. I mean Samantha Rice. I mean–
As a loose, ill-informed cannon, she perfectly mirrors the President.
Or, Haley was told to make a statement that would be publicly rolled back. The Russians might still find some other way of retaliating over the Friday missile strikes.
Not sure if bad cop worse cop works, but whatever.
UN Ambassador should be a job for a professional diplomat, not some ambitious, grandstanding neocon politician.
Tulsi G from HI would be a lady Trump should get to help him run the show if it is peace that he wants
And yet she has supported sanctions against Russia, based on false pretenses. Whom shall we trust? They need to be judged on their record, not their words…
I am a huge fan of the Black Adder series, ‘Lord Baldric’. 🙂
This is a mess. Macron babbling about “evidence”, still trying to justify the big show of force after the fact. May is rolling her eyes while questtioned in Parliament. And Nikki just may be disposable.
And the media that just hates Trump — suddenly adores him after some splendid show of power.
In fact, most of the global media (outside Western world) believes that this weakened Western credibility, by usung same old “weapons of mass destruction” cannard, using UK intelligence outfit White Helmets to whitewash the fact that Syria has resolved a long standing problem with notorious Salafi headchoppers. So, the last day before being evacuated, a show is staged. It is amazing how this group and their allies get the honours of being called “rebels”. While White Helmets were allowed, as wellbas another USAID outfit, no Western journalists were allowed to enter. Those that did paid with their lives. Only a werk ago, due to an evacuation agreement a group of Syrian soldiers were available for the evacuation, when they were captured and executed, mostly by beheading. And where are all the Western media outfits headquartered to report from Syria. Not in our “rebel” areas of course. They are in Beirut, and do not serm to be bothered by bad terrorist organization, Hezbollah.
At present, the attack by the three Western powers in Syria resulted in a destruction of one laboratory, a place last inspected by OPCW in November. The offices and lab was used by OPCW during the process of chemical weapons destruction supervised by OPCW. However, the building was vacant, and so were other pesumed chemical labs. It is not clear to anyone why would Syrian government bother with chemicals to provoke West, when they are winning over terrorists (excuse me, rebels).
And after everything was said and done, majority of missiles were intercepted, and with much older tecnology. No Russian S-400 was used. Reportedly, there are no deaths and three injured. But there is one big casualty — UN peace process is dead. UN failed to prevent attack, failed to demand inspectors to be sent to the site of alleged chemical attack. UN Charter has been trashed, Un proocess destroyed. And FUKUS did not accomplish anything — and this means they will either have to escallate, or find the way to engage Turkey, what was proposed by Turkey even before Raqqa liberation from ISIS.
Escallation would mean getting into shooting war with Russia. Such an event would not be limited. It would definitelly mean a defeat for someone and victory for another. So, the first show of force is over. Peacocks have shown off their splendid colors. Now either round two, or negotiated withdrawal. Now Israel is provoking by attacking Syria, indicating that Israel suspects withdrawal, and will keep on provoking to keep America in. This is a high risk strategy, risking Russia’s reprisal, and a chain of events not favorable to Israel. In spite of the desire by some to see the end of the world — others may not be so enthusiastic.
Not the Russians are going to attack The Free World talk again ,my goodness we heard that all last week and America and it’s allies attacked. As for the missile strikes it was successful, buildings reduced to rubble. I guess if you’re Assad these things tend to happen because, they’ve been happening a long time even before ISIS was formed.
Successful in what, Uncle Sam? The sites that were struck by 71 out of 103 cruise missiles were hardly damaged except the research facility, which the Syrian gov’t was going to demolish anyway. I certainly wouldn’t call that attack a success, unless the evil troika of the US, UK and France deliberately refrained from an all-out missile strike that would ignite a 3rd World War.
I agree, Russia will not attack the “Free World”, whatever this means today. As the system that guided the world since WWII has failed, and tens of millions from Latin America, Asia, Africa and parts of Europe are on the desparate march to find their place under the sun, the creators of the system are not coping. Not to mention millions and millions dead in the quest of spreading democracy. Armies of the poor are finding employment in thousands of gangs or terrorist groups, funded by states that seek to take advantage of poverty and
anger. So, some countries are interested in eliminating threats to stability, while others are vested in chaos. So no inconvenient questions about economy. Like the strikes on the streets of French towns, and plenty of tear gas applied, keeping hospitals busy.
You see, the missile messaging accomplished nothing. So now, choice has.narrowed. Any escallation would narrow it even further. The bureaucrats that run the Free World have neither vision nor the courage to steer the new couse, as the earth is shiftng under their feet.
Haley is speaking for Likud and the Zio-Nazi’s.
She has her instructions and soon Trump will get his.
That part’s true, Pat Dunne, but I digress on the rest. Pres. The crazy banshee’s more likely to be fired by Pres. Trump, and I wouldn’t blame him one bit. He’s already backed off on her screeching vows of Russian sanctions, which is a step toward dismissing her.
Nikki Hale’s been a huge embarrassment to the US delegation under her, to the entire UNSC, to the White House and to herself .. So, it’s long time that Trump fire her now and put someone who’s both qualified and stable in her place. We simply can’t afford an ignorant screeching banshee representing the US in the UNSC. Period.
I wish this is true. And that there is some liogic or thinking present in the halls of power. In Washington, London, Paris or Berlin. In Brussels or Stockholm. Nothing but embarrasing fools not minding to lie, make things up as they go, and just tap dance to the tune of their masters whistle. And the more erratic the whistle, the more increddible the tap dance. None of this is for real — we just can only guess the source of the whistling. This cannot end well.
In the meantime lying is gettjng mire audacious, deception too thinly veiled, pressure on international organizations and officials amounting to open threats. THIS BEHAVIOUR stems out of.someone’s perception of weakness — not strength. The more viciously they act, the more clueless they appear. They no longer care about their global reputation, about respectability, collaborating, caring. It is now all about supremacy of the West, the one and only “world” or “international community”. This cannot end well. Unless some other centers of power emerge with the capacity for true leadership, with the understanding for global security, not security for some, and with understanding of hopes and fears of humanity — we are in trouble. The leadership West is claiming produced destroyed economies, masses of sad humanity on the move as a result of mindless policues of Western institurions, from IMF and Workd Bank to EBRD, EU. While all along, tens of thousands of NGOs have proliferated like a locust to give advice, urge, intimidate and threaten vulnerable countries bringing political turmoil, instability and violence.
Trump made a deal – he knew that the Syrian “gas attack” was bullshit. Through some means, he got through to Putin, “hey man, I’m in a box here, please let me launch some missiles, no-one will get hurt; no valuable property will be damaged; and I’ll personally get those sanctions off your ass” Putin agreed. But the Likudnics will be unsatisfied. – they want blood – Arab blood. Hopefully, Trump will finally realize that we can’t make America AND ISRAEL great at the same time; and that means – “piss on Israe!”.
“Still, this does harm to Haley’s credibility” Surely you jest!!