Originally Posted by
Profane Kahuna
No one is attacking you, no matter how many times you cry victim.
Changing the subject to iran doesn’t disprove the fact that you only report one side of the Ukraine war…. the russian side.
Four years in and you are still putin’s puppet.
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Pointing out decades of fecklessness by our NATO Allie’s is not an indication of anyone being “Putin’s puppet”. US administrations since Jimmy Carter have been telling them they needed to spend more to defend Europe, appeals they studiously ignored (excepting perhaps Poland and Estonia). The MAJOR ECONOMIES (Germany, Italy, Spain, France, and the U.K., have spent less and less as a percentage of their GDP and even now, 12 years after the Russians seized Crimea, are barely approaching the 2% level they set for themselves in 2006. And yes, in many ways enlarging NATO Willy-nilly has hurt rather than helped the alliance, as evidenced by some of the obstructionist policies of Hungary, Slovakia, and Czechia.
Saying that no more makes me Putin’s pawn than it made most of the US administrations Putin’s pawns. And I wasn’t the one who pushed the “reset” button with Russia.
Clinton, Lavrov push wrong reset button on ties
By Reuters
March 6, 200910:43 AM PSTUpdated March 6, 2009
GENEVA, March 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a red "reset button" to symbolise improved ties, but the gift drew smiles as the word "reset" was mistranslated into the Russian for "overcharge".
"I would like to present you with a little gift that represents what President Obama and Vice President Biden and I have been saying and that is: 'We want to reset our relationship and so we will do it together," said Clinton, presenting Lavrov with a palm-sized yellow box with a red button.
Clinton joked to Lavrov: "We worked hard to get the right Russian word. Do you think we got it?"
"You got it wrong," said Lavrov, smiling as the two pushed the reset button together before dinner at a Geneva hotel.
He told Clinton the word "Peregruzka" meant "overcharge", to which Clinton replied: "We won't let you do that to us."
"We mean it and we look forward to it," she said of "resetting" the relationship, a phrase that Joe Biden first used at a security conference in Munich.
Lavrov said he would put the gift on his desk. (Reporting by Sue Pleming; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
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And our NATO anllies are proving similarly feckless with Iran.