{"id":40348,"date":"2014-03-15T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T10:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40348"},"modified":"2014-03-14T17:32:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T21:32:13","slug":"skerry-russia-has-until-monday-or-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40348","title":{"rendered":"sKerry: Russia has until Monday…or else"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, John Kerry, our Secretary of State is talking tough with Russia, warning that they had better reverse course in the Ukraine, or else, according to the Washington Examiner<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The U.S. and Europe on Monday would then unite to impose sanctions on Russia, Kerry told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee Thursday during a hearing on the State Department’s budget.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be a response of some kind to the referendum itself,\u201d Kerry said. \u201cIf there is no sign [from Russia] of any capacity to respond to this issue … there will be a very serious series of steps on Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur hope is to have Russia join in respecting international law. … There is no justification, no legality to this referendum that is taking place,\u201d he said. \u201cThe hope is that reason will prevail but there is no guarantee of that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“A response of some kind” sounds so tough, doesn’t it? Especially coming from the chest puffers in this Administration. They cut our defenses to the bone and then talk tough like there’s some kind of military action that we can afford. But then, this is John Kerry who unilaterally surrendered to the North Vietnamese in Paris. <\/p>\n

I’m sure that by Monday night, the strongly-worded protest letters will be flowing freely. The bodies of White House pages will be stacked like firewood on Pennsylvania Avenue. But Putin certainly won’t budge, not to these pretenders. They’ve made that clear to the world for the last five years. besides, we have things like immigration and minimum wages to yammer on about incessantly, until everyone forgets that we’re the punchline to every one of Putin’s jokes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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