..."...even Putin’s most outrageous claim about Ukraine’s capacity to develop nuclear weapons and threaten Russia is no more farcical than Washington’s claim about Saddam Hussein developing weapons of mass destruction, as a pretext to invade faraway Iraq, which Biden, then a senator, supported..." - j.n.
albo
co komu po tym ?...
nieustającym tańcu "Pow-wow"[1] i w Europie
i za Atlantykiem...
...It was at this point that the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the usually mild-mannered Army General Martin Dempsey, spoke up, loudly. According to several sources, Dempsey threw a series of brushback pitches at Kerry, demanding to know just exactly what the post-strike plan would be and pointing out that the State Department didn’t fully grasp the complexity of such an operation..." (źródło: "Bloomberg" by Jeffrey Goldberg - Jun 18, 2013)
"Yesterday, shortly after I posted a column on Secretary of State John Kerry’s push to have the White House approve U.S. strikes on Syrian airfields -- and how Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey pushed back strongly against the idea -- I heard from a number of people who support Kerry’s stance and think that the Pentagon is being unnecessarily timid.
(I myself am one of the approximately three columnists in the U.S. who don’t know exactly what President Barack Obama ought to do in Syria. On the one hand, the Syrian civil war represents a humanitarian nightmare and an acute strategic challenge; on the other, I don’t think the U.S. is capable of mediating a Sunni-Shiite civil war, and so shouldn’t try)..." - źródło j.w. "Post sematyczny..."
..."...Vladimir Putin merely shrugged and pointed a finger at the Ukrainian government and, by extension, its Western allies.
[...]
has played this game before. He need only bide his time for the West’s own inaction to clear him..." - j.w.
...cokolwiek ten "...success..." jak i dla Rosji
tak i Europy - o Ameryce nie wspominając - będzie znaczył...
...znamiennym tym razem w "Newsweeku" cytatem[2]...
Everything," Putin said, "turned out exactly the opposite. They were just words." - j.w.