Saturday, April 19, 2014

President Obama: 'We Don't Need A War' With Russia Over Ukraine



Obama: ‘We Don’t Need a War’ With Russia -- Noah Rayman, Time

President Obama downplayed the chance of a military conflict with Russia over the escalating tension in eastern Ukraine, in an interview that aired Thursday, saying it's not up to either country to decide what kind of relationships Ukraine has with its neighbors
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President Barack Obama said in an interview that aired Thursday that “we don’t need a war” with Russia, downplaying the chance of military conflict between the U.S. and Russia over tensions in Ukraine.

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Update: Is confrontation with Russia inevitable? -- Fareed Zakaria, CNN

My Comment: If history is any indication .... people generally do not want war .... unfortunately .... war has a tendency to rush to us when we least expect it .... even when we do not want it. This crisis has the potential of being one of those times.

2 comments:

James said...

Was it the old Trotsky line: "You may not be interested in war, but war might be..."

Unknown said...

Bravo bravo! Obama has lied for 6 years straight, and his acting is so awesome that he sometimes even tricks people that are usually awake