[M_B_S]

White House announces retaliation against Russia: Sanctions, ejecting diplomats

By Evan Perez and Daniella Diaz, CNN
Updated 0901 GMT (1701 HKT) December 30, 2016

President Barack Obama took unprecedented steps Thursday to retaliate against alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election, prompting vows from Russian authorities that Moscow will respond in kind.

The administration described Russia's involvement as "Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities" and sanctioned four Russian individuals and five Russian entities for what it said was election interference. The administration also ordered 35 Russian diplomats to leave the country and two Russian compounds are being closed.
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Mr. Obama
Please give your Nobel Prize back.

I dont want to live in a "Cold WAR" again.

M_B_S

[M_B_S]

When Trump is in charge I hope Putin invite him to "Russian" Sauna in his Daja

And look films like "Gorky Park" and "Red Heat" with a bottle of "Wodka" + Crimera Kavia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFHMvUufeTg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14bjUtntk4Q

And start an NEW ERA of PEACE PROGRESS and Cooperation



VIVA RUSSIA! VIVA USA!

There is the hope Mr. Obama

[ROCKMAN]

"President Barack Obama took unprecedented steps Thursday to retaliate against alleged Russian...". Hardly "unprecedented ".

During the Cuban crisis President Kennedy order the US Navy to intercept any Russian vessel in international waterrs that were suspected of carrying weapons.

And President Reagan, retaliating against the Soviet downing of a South Korean airliner, ordered the Soviet airline Aeroflot to close down its U.S. offices. In addition he ordered the state-run airline to close its offices and its employees to leave the country. He also reaffirmed the ban on Aeroflot flights to the United States imposed in January 1982 following the crackdown on the Solidarity movement in Poland.

"Reagan also asked the Civil Aeronautics Board to suspend the right of Aeroflot to sell tickets in the United States, to bar U.S. airlines from selling tickets in the United States for transportation on Aeroflot, to bar U.S. airlines from carrying passengers ticketed for Aeroflot flights, to direct U.S. airlines to suspend interline service arrangements with Aeroflot and to bar U.S. airlines from accepting any tickets issued by Aeroflot for air travel to, from or within the United States."

Compared to just those two responses by a POTUS not only is President Obama's response not unprecedented but also rather week. If fact so week that Putin responded that is so irrelevant that he intended to ignore it and would not retaliate.

Oddly enough President Obama's reaction just highlights his response to much serious hacking offenses like the Chinese stealing very personal info from more the 20 million Americans or Russia providing a safe haven for an individual who the US State Dept claims stole more classdified govt data then any other individual in history. And then there's the US response to Iran's breaking a number of the provisions of the nuke weapons deal by releasing $BILLIONS of funds to them. Funds sent to the country our own State Dept has named as THE largest financial supporter of global terrorism on the planet.

The POTUS seems to be acting stronger to a yet publicly undocumented action then other more serious well documented events during his presidency. Given the little time left in office the the bulk of the testimony given UNDER OATH before Congress by members of our intelligence organizations dealing with this incidence will be made the new administration.

Can't wait for those public hearings.

[KaiserJeep]

This isn't Obama's last act. He still has tens of thousands of crack dealers and violent felons to pardon before leaving office. He will restore racial balance to the prison system by pardoning the blacks and other minorities until the racial quotas are met.

He is, after all, a warrior for social justice.

[ROCKMAN]

Interesting: Starting to hear more negative feedback over President Obama's "retaliation" from D's then R's. As too little...too late. One D in the House went on about the lack of US response to Russia bombing that relief convoy in Syria. He also made an odd comment: he's looking forward to the new administration showing the details of any evidence against Russia. Right now the intelligence organizations have refused to give details even to the Congress criters. So far just leaks from "unnamed sources". Would be interesting for the R controlled Congress to have the heads of those agencies stand before a committee and provide such details UNDER OATH.

President Obama really needs some hard evidence presented to the public. Otherwise the last month of his presidency might not be the legacy he was expecting.

[dissident]

Interesting: Starting to hear more negative feedback over President Obama's "retaliation" from D's then R's. As too little...too late. One D in the House went on about the lack of US response to Russia bombing that relief convoy in Syria. He also made an odd comment: he's looking forward to the new administration showing the details of any evidence against Russia. Right now the intelligence organizations have refused to give details even to the Congress criters. So far just leaks from "unnamed sources". Would be interesting for the R controlled Congress to have the heads of those agencies stand before a committee and provide such details UNDER OATH.

President Obama really needs some hard evidence presented to the public. Otherwise the last month of his presidency might not be the legacy he was expecting.

Cute how accusations become fact in America. Russia did not bomb any aid convoy. Anybody who bothered to analyze the damage to the trucks could not reconcile them with 250 kg aerial bombs or air to surface missiles. They could reconcile them with jihadi weapons. Of course this does not prevent the NATO MSM from claiming the evidence points to a "Russian jet" (as if Syrian jets don't operate the in theatre; proving that these inferences and conclusions are propaganda).

Edit: https://www.sott.net/article/329447-Bel ... aid-convoy

The same NATO MSM systematically ignored the shelling of west Aleppo civilians by jihadis and only bothers to circulate white helmet jihadi propaganda videos of alleged "Russian bombing locations". NATO and its MSM mouthpieces have zero C-R-E-D-B-I-L-I-T-Y.



"Precision" artillery of the jihadis. They get TOWs from the US but have to improvise random scatter cannons. The NATO MSM propaganda about "barrel bombs" is a joke. Supposedly Syrian forces fly around in helicopters and bomb civilians on purpose. Cut the intellectually insulting, self-serving propaganda. The "rebels" have access to MANPADs so no helicopter would stay in the air for long and bombing jihadis this way so such operations are clearly out of the question (they use higher and faster flying jets for a reason). But that does not concern the NATO MSM, it just loves the evil Assad caricature much like it loved to attribute MH17 personally to Putin. Because he gets off on downing civilian aircraft but for some reason there was only this one case under totally obscure circumstances where the precious USA never produced any of the evidence it claimed to have so that the Dutch report on the case was a joke Twitter snowjob based 100% on the Bellingcat "analysis".




US backed moderate terrorists proud of blowing-down the only drinking water from the Al-Fijeh spring source supply for 6 million people in Damascus. Supposedly this was another Russian bombing event.



Skilled "Syrian opposition" actor: diplomat - rescuer - journalist - injured - dead - humanitarian - fighter - writer - public speaker

[dissident]

You are wasting your time diss. Anyone who doesn't buy into the NATO BS (we dearly want to control Russian mineral wealth) is simply ignored.

FUCK THE RUSSIANS. GO USA!

I know it is an epic struggle against windmills.

But perhaps the NATO leaders can learn some history instead of wallowing in hubris and dreaming of cakewalks in Russia.

[dissident]

Europeans are jealous of Russia, sick of having to purchase Russia's mineral wealth. They want it themselves. Why the US gets sucked into NATO BS is beyond me?

I guess those Europeans are just too spoiled by centuries of colonial rape and pillage to bear having to pay the moderate prices that they do for Russian resources. Why pay when you think you can have it for free? That sort of thinking is genocide-level stupid.

[Plantagenet]

Obama is so incompetent he will fail in his attempt to restart the Cold War, just like he's failed at just about everything else he's attempted.

Cheers!

[sparky]

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@ dissident ...." I know it is an epic struggle against windmills. "
please consider my I.D. picture it also work well for wind-power and me as Don Quixote as a delusional idealist

as for the recent Obama decision , based on seventeen intelligence organizations ( seventeen !!!! , how many is there ?)
a summer camp is confiscated and the San Francisco consulate cook is declared a spy
meanwhile the liberals are holding hands with mad , senile Mc Cain !
this is getting hallucinogenic

if I was a cynic I would say Moloch , the mad god of war , is on the prowl
and nobody can stop him , come on doomers where are you ?

[Cog]

I doubt Coast Guard intelligence and the DEA knows very much about this so called hacking at all. They are two of the 17 who have supposedly signed on with this nonsense.