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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.
Obama is traveling to Europe next week for a meeting in Wales with other NATO leaders. He'll also make a stop in Estonia, where he will meet with the leaders of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in an attempt to reassure allies amid burgeoning Russian aggression in Ukraine.
"The two stops are essentially part of the same effort to send a message to the Russians that their behavior is unacceptable," Charles Kupchan, the White House's senior director for European affairs, said in a conference call with reporters Friday afternoon.
"You have in Estonia a large Russian population, and therefore part of the message that the President will be sending is, we stand with you. Article 5 constitutes an ironclad guarantee of your security. Russia, don’t even think about messing around in Estonia or in any of the Baltic areas in the same way that you have been messing around in Ukraine."
WHITE HOUSE TO PUTIN: Don't 'Even Think About Messing Around' With The Baltics
Yahoo ^ | 8/29/14 | Brett LoGiurato
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.
Obama is traveling to Europe next week for a meeting in Wales with other NATO leaders. He'll also make a stop in Estonia, where he will meet with the leaders of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in an attempt to reassure allies amid burgeoning Russian aggression in Ukraine.
"The two stops are essentially part of the same effort to send a message to the Russians that their behavior is unacceptable," Charles Kupchan, the White House's senior director for European affairs, said in a conference call with reporters Friday afternoon.
"You have in Estonia a large Russian population, and therefore part of the message that the President will be sending is, we stand with you. Article 5 constitutes an ironclad guarantee of your security. Russia, don’t even think about messing around in Estonia or in any of the Baltic areas in the same way that you have been messing around in Ukraine."
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What are you going to do if Russia doe mess with the Baltics?
You watch out, Putin! If you even go near those Baltics, I tell ya, he's gonna, I tell ya, he's gonna, be sure of it, look out... he's gonna draw a big red line in the sand! Arrrgh!
You watch out, Putin! If you even go near those Baltics, I tell ya, he's gonna, I tell ya, he's gonna, be sure of it, look out... he's gonna draw a big red line in the sand! Arrrgh!
Putin also announced Russia has nuclear weapons.....a real stunner......
Leaders of countries sharing borders with Russia led the way in demanding tougher action against what they see as blatant aggression on their doorstep.
Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaite bluntly called for the West to wake up, and appeared to urge Nato to give significant military aid to Kiev.
‘Russia is at war against Ukraine and that is a country which wants to be part of Europe. Russia is practically at war against Europe,’ she said.
She lambasted previous sanctions as ‘a big mistake’ because they were ‘too general’.
Lithuania is one of at least six states believed to have signed up to a new British-led Nato rapid-reaction force, the formation of which is expected to be announced this week by David Cameron as Wales hosts the most important Alliance gathering since the end of the Cold War.
Denmark, Latvia, Estonia, Norway and the Netherlands will also join the 10,000-troop bid to deter Putin from what the West sees as an attempt to redraw the frontiers of Europe.
A key concern is that he intends to use his military might to impose a new ‘statelet’ within Ukraine called Novorossiya – or New Russia. What remains of Ukraine could be left with no coastline if the plan goes through.
A diplomat said: ‘Putin is obsessed with Novorossiya, territory won for the Romanovs by Catherine the Great. He wants it back.
'But the so-called rebels in this region of eastern Ukraine, who he praised for keeping Kiev’s army at bay, are his own soldiers, using his latest military equipment. Let’s not fool ourselves about the acute dangers.’
Putin’s use of the Tsarist name of Novorossiya is sending shudders through Europe. While it includes the Donetsk and Lugansk regions ....it also includes such major cities as Kharkiv, Kherson and Odessa.
That and 11 Carrier Strike Groups and weapons systems including everything from the assault rifle to our main battle tank, all our aircraft, air defense and every other system you can name that are far superior than what they have. Every time the systems go against each other in proxy wars we annihilate them. In a conventional war, we mop the floor with the Russians.Putin also announced Russia has nuclear weapons.....a real stunner......
America will be attacked if we ever get rid of ours. Our nukes are the only reason we haven't seen another world war in the past 60 years.
That and 11 Carrier Strike Groups and weapons systems including everything from the assault rifle to our main battle tank, all our aircraft, air defense and every other system you can name that are far superior than what they have. Every time the systems go against each other in proxy wars we annihilate them. In a conventional war, we mop the floor with the Russians.Putin also announced Russia has nuclear weapons.....a real stunner......
America will be attacked if we ever get rid of ours. Our nukes are the only reason we haven't seen another world war in the past 60 years.
