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WHITE HOUSE TO PUTIN Don't 'Even Think About Messing Around' With The Baltics

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President Barack Obama's message to Russian president Vladimir Putin when traveling to Europe next week is to not "even think about messing around" with the Baltic states, the White House said Friday.

Read the article here: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/white-house-putin-dont-even-214107060.html

What Obama is telling Putin is that Article 5 of the NATO Treaty means that if it messes with the Baltic states or any other member of NATO it will be messing with NATO, including the USA.
 
Pfff. And what are we going to do? :roll:

Obama couldn't intimidate a six year old girl, let alone a regional superpower. If I were Putin, I'd just laugh and keep right on doing what I was doing.
 
President Barack Obama's message to Russian president Vladimir Putin when traveling to Europe next week is to not "even think about messing around" with the Baltic states, the White House said Friday.

Read the article here: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/white-house-putin-dont-even-214107060.html

What Obama is telling Putin is that Article 5 of the NATO Treaty means that if it messes with the Baltic states or any other member of NATO it will be messing with NATO, including the USA.




With respect, a threat from Obama is like any other empty vessel.

Echo and volume are pretty good, but there's nothing there.

Putin might be shaking as a result. That's what people do when they laugh.
 
I am sure Putin is terrified of our skinny little wimp of a prez.
 
President Barack Obama's message to Russian president Vladimir Putin when traveling to Europe next week is to not "even think about messing around" with the Baltic states, the White House said Friday.

Read the article here: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/white-house-putin-dont-even-214107060.html

What Obama is telling Putin is that Article 5 of the NATO Treaty means that if it messes with the Baltic states or any other member of NATO it will be messing with NATO, including the USA.

What's Obama going to do if he does?
 
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Obama would do nothing except give a blustering speech, maybe send weapons to neighboring states. But he would not engage russia in open conflict.

Putin has obamas number. I cant recall a time in history when we appeared so insignificant.
 
President Barack Obama's message to Russian president Vladimir Putin when traveling to Europe next week is to not "even think about messing around" with the Baltic states, the White House said Friday.

Read the article here: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/white-house-putin-dont-even-214107060.html

What Obama is telling Putin is that Article 5 of the NATO Treaty means that if it messes with the Baltic states or any other member of NATO it will be messing with NATO, including the USA.

One, Mr. Putin is already "messing around" he annexed the Crimea in the largest military backed land grab since 1939. He has troops, tanks and missiles poised on the border and is arming pro-Russian rebels within the Ukraine itself. His secret agencies are creating dissent and unrest within the country with the clear aim to gain back Ukraine as a pro-Russian state.

What, precisely, is Obama telling him "not" to do?
 
What are they going to do? Talk to the UN about sanctions or something?
 
One, Mr. Putin is already "messing around" he annexed the Crimea in the largest military backed land grab since 1939. He has troops, tanks and missiles poised on the border and is arming pro-Russian rebels within the Ukraine itself. His secret agencies are creating dissent and unrest within the country with the clear aim to gain back Ukraine as a pro-Russian state.

What, precisely, is Obama telling him "not" to do?



Step on NATO's toes.
 
Obama would do nothing except give a blustering speech, maybe send weapons to neighboring states. But he would not engage russia in open conflict.

Putin has obamas number. I cant recall a time in history when we appeared so insignificant.

Being Canadian, allow me a hockey metaphor.

I have seen this many times, while playing, officiating and just watching. A new 'star" comes along and as is usual shows talent early and is advanced up the spectrum. He will soon find himself at 13, playing against 18 year olds.

Because he has heard for years he has such great gifts, be it stick handling, speed, a cannon of a slap shot or just a combination of all of it as well as size.

In the junior leagues he is now not so much the star, the game has changed, his moves no longer work, his opponents have experience, cunning and learned strategy; he finds himself stapled to the ice or boards a lot, his shots easily turned away by experienced goal tenders.

He does not realize he is, frankly, out of his league. He presses harder, faster, taking more risks, believing his own myth in the wake of mounting evidence he is, at this level a very average player, convinced he is the next Gretzski.

As all metaphors do, it breaks down there as the hockey player merely gets benched. But as Obama presses harder and takes more risk against a far more experienced and cunning opponent, Americans and the world must realize that the rookie star's failure could be WWIII
 
Give a speech and may even write a mildly disapproving letter to the UN.

What's Obama going to do if he does?
 
What NATO countries has Putin invaded so far?
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Fill us in.




OHHHHH...you meant outright invasion!

I thought you said "messin' around"


That's OK, you play this change the topic game all the time...covers a lot of ignorance on any topic.

Mr. Putin has NATO - No Action Talk Only - quaking in its boots because they have no support or ready response to his aggression in Ukraine


And please avail yourself of the history, I am not here to do your homework
 
President Barack Obama's message to Russian president Vladimir Putin when traveling to Europe next week is to not "even think about messing around" with the Baltic states, the White House said Friday.

Read the article here: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/white-house-putin-dont-even-214107060.html

What Obama is telling Putin is that Article 5 of the NATO Treaty means that if it messes with the Baltic states or any other member of NATO it will be messing with NATO, including the USA.

:lamo:joke:

Given the near complete lack of any sort of credibility that Obama has on the international stage, yeah, this'll have some weight. (*sarcasm*)
 
OHHHHH...you meant outright invasion!
I thought you said "messin' around"


That's OK, you play this change the topic game all the time...covers a lot of ignorance on any topic.

Mr. Putin has NATO - No Action Talk Only - quaking in its boots because they have no support or ready response to his aggression in Ukraine


And please avail yourself of the history, I am not here to do your homework




Right. That hasn't happened and likely won't happen because the end result could be WWIII with Nukes. I don't believe that Putin wants to kick that off.

He's just trying to grab some low-hanging fruit.
 
Awesome.......another red line.
 
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