House Intelligence Chair: Putin Playing Chess, U.S. Playing Marbles (+video)
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Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), chairman of the House’s Select Committee on Intelligence, was on “Fox News Sunday” to discuss the situation in Ukraine.
Russian President Putin got approval to send troops to Ukraine, and the Russian military has seized Crimea without firing a single shot.
Rogers said that for Putin, Crimea has the greatest military, strategic and economic impact. He said that Russia’s upper chamber has a proposal that would allow Crimea to become part of the Russian Federation if Crimea wanted to.
Russia has made many bold moves recently, including moving its borders out about 11 kilometers in Georgia and helping Syrian President Bashar Assad remain in power during U.N. negotiations.
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Obama Proves To Be Completely Worthless Once Again
By Mockarena/Chicks on the Right.
Seriously – how worthless is Obama in the face of this Russian invasion of Ukraine? I’ll tell you how worthless he is. Putin is totally calling his bluff. According to that sourcelink, “Putin had the Russian Parliament grant him broad authority to use military force in Ukraine in response to deepening instability there…”
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Lindsey Graham: When Obama threatens Putin, ‘everybody’s eyes roll’
By Brendan Bordelon.
South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham advised President Barack Obama to stop threatening “thugs and dictators” like Russia’s Vladimir Putin on television, claiming that “everybody’s eyes roll” every time he does.
Graham spoke with CNN’s Candy Crowley on a panel including Democratic Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin. Crowley noted that Graham had been critical of Obama’s brief statement on the Russian invasion of southern Ukraine on Friday. “What more do you want from President Obama at this point?” the CNN host asked.
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