{"id":40635,"date":"2014-03-25T16:15:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T20:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40635"},"modified":"2014-03-25T16:40:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T20:40:04","slug":"that-regional-power-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40635","title":{"rendered":"That &#8220;regional power&#8221; Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=40637\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40637\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/obama-romney-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"obama-romney\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/obama-romney-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/obama-romney-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/obama-romney.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Pinto Nag sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/storyline\/ukraine-crisis\/obama-russia-regional-power-not-top-geopolitical-foe-n61601\">NBC News<\/a> in which they quote the President at a news conference in The Hague today when he was asked if he had reconsidered the now-famous Mitt Romney quote about the Russians being our &#8220;number one geopolitical foe&#8221;. The President responded;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Russia&#8217;s actions are a problem,&#8221; he said at a joint press conference at the Hague with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte. &#8220;They don\u2019t pose the number one national security threat to the United States. I continue to be much more concerned when it comes to our security with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can see that in the video;<\/p>\n<p> <script id='metamorph-34-start' type='text\/x-placeholder'><\/script><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/2E2eJC\/nbcNewsOffsite?guid=f_dc_obamanuke_140325\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><script id='metamorph-34-end' type='text\/x-placeholder'><\/script><\/p>\n<p>You know what I&#8217;ve noticed over the last few decades? I noticed that most of the terrorists have unfettered access to Russian AK-47 rifles. I noticed that Saddam Hussein&#8217;s armies had Soviet tanks and personnel carriers. We uncovered mountains of Soviet NBC equipment in Iraq. I remember that the Euro-terrorist groups in Europe and Japan had Soviet support, with weapons and explosives. I remember that the old Soviet Union funded the terrorist training camps in Libya and Palestine. All of that with the goal of destabilizing the West, courtesy of the KGB (Putin&#8217;s former employer).<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the Russians protect the Syrian government and the Iran government in the United Nations while providing less-visible support. <\/p>\n<p>If a nuclear weapon were detonated in New York City, where is it most likely to have originated? And who would benefit most from it? The President is hinting that terrorism is our greatest threat, but what terrorists? Not al Qaeda &#8211; before the 2012 presidential elections, he told us they had been decimated, but he still considers them our greatest threat, now? <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He added that Russia&#8217;s move to annex Crimea is not a &#8220;done deal,&#8221; noting its rejection by most of the international community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, at least I remember the Cold War and how well the &#8220;international community&#8221; kept the Soviet Union in line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pinto Nag sends us a link to NBC News in which they quote the President at &hellip; <a title=\"That &#8220;regional power&#8221; Russia\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40635\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">That &#8220;regional power&#8221; Russia<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-foreign-policy","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}