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http://www.politicususa.com/2014/03/01/john-mccain-push-united-states-full-scale-war-russia.htmlJohn McCain Wants To Push The United States Into A Full Scale War With Russia
By: Justin Baragona
Saturday, March, 1st, 2014, 1:23 pm
On Saturday, the day after President Obama addressed the nation on the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) made a statement. As per his usual self, McCain made sure to undermine the President regarding his foreign policy strategy. At the same time, he pushed for the US to commit to sending troops into Ukraine and confronting Russia directly.
Below is McCains full statement:
Russias use of force in Ukraine is unfolding in clear violation of Russias own commitments to respect Ukraines sovereignty and territorial integrity, including under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. None of us should be under any illusion about what President Putin is capable of doing in Ukraine, especially now that he has requested, and the Russian Duma has approved, the deployment of Russian troops, not just in Crimea but in the country of Ukraine.
Every moment that the United States and our allies fail to respond sends the signal to President Putin that he can be even more ambitious and aggressive in his military intervention in Ukraine. There is a range of serious options at our disposal at this time without the use of military force. I call on President Obama to rally our European and NATO allies to make clear what costs Russia will face for its aggression and to impose those consequences without further delay.
Make no mistake about McCains statement that there are other options available without resorting to military force. He wants the United States to go to war and he wants it to happen yesterday. Hes been banging the war drums especially hard lately, whether it is Iran, Syria or Russia. He not only wants to push us into a full-scale war, he wants to try to make the President look like a weak leader while doing so.
However, nobody is taking McCain seriously anymore. The President isnt going to listen to anything he says, and McCains sphere of influence has rapidly shrunk the past few years. Other than maybe Senators Kelly Ayotte and Lindsey Graham, nobody on Capitol Hill is really joining forces with McCain when he goes off on his hawkish tirades. While Republicans in Washington love to rip the President for every decision he makes, most also know that the American people have no appetite for another war. The recent situation with Syria made that abundantly clear.
Once again, we just see bitter, angry old man McCain taking out his frustrations with the 2008 election results every time he goes off on one of these hackneyed rip jobs on the President. He is so transparent and impossible to take as a serious foreign policy expert. He just wants to shake his fist angrily at the White House and claim that the President doesnt know what hes doing. Hes become the crazy uncle at Thanksgiving dinner that only reads WND and The Blaze and watches Fox News 24/7.
yuiyoshida
(41,818 posts)DOESN'T QUITE RHYME does it JOHN?
reformist2
(9,841 posts)Of all their hare-brained plans to topple and flip governments, this one has got to be the worst-planned-out yet.
malaise
(268,686 posts)He's planning to run again and this is tres convenient.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)that Putin is a RW tool isn't seeing clearly.
This is why the fawning over him during the Syrian situation was absurd.
Putin the Peacemaker
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023661265
Stand With Putin
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023654178
Cha
(296,797 posts)now, I'm wondering?
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)to indicate otherwise. Don't know how the wifey is going to take this but I do agree, he is secretly planning to lose again..
malaise
(268,686 posts)Remember all the planned scandals for the election -the IRS. Benghazi and Obamacare flopped - they'll try with this one. This one will blow up in their faces too - but look for Rmoney and Cheney on this one tomorrow or early in the week.
Bomb bomb bomb Russia
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Works every time. Being surrounded on stage with generals with a lot of tinware on their chests and having lotsa flags helps.
TheKentuckian
(25,020 posts)Fuckwit beyond epic scale and sadly what passes for reasonable at the Senate level from Arizona and would be an upgrade over either of mine and many around the country.
The add to this a bunch of criminal yahoos in Governor's mansions, a judiciary chock full of nuts and retrograde assholes, and a Teabagger House and you have a full on meltdown of governance in this country, close to cancer than democracy and that doesn't even account for the corporate capture.
Thankfully, even with those substantial institutional failures the sentiment is impotent yelling at clouds, even later day Russia is no Iraq, it would be bad for business globally to the point that the MIC wouldn't have the pull.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.
spanone
(135,789 posts)usa liberal
(9 posts)for sure he is crazy asshole on some of the foreign issues
but as far as domestic issues he is really not so bad. if you go on far right conservative websites they fucking hate him and call him a rino, his own republican party in arizona just cenzored him, so there has to be something redeemable about this guy
if the extreme wing of the current conservative party hates him so much he must be doing something right
sheshe2
(83,639 posts)John McCain is a bottom feeder like the rest of the GOP...
Send them to war and abandon them when they get home.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/21/1134847/-McCain-Jobless-vets-a-national-disgrace-so-he-votes-against-veterans-jobs-bill#
spanone
(135,789 posts)Cha
(296,797 posts)3catwoman3
(23,944 posts)...when my now 91 year old mom was a young nurse, she told me the doctors would order what the nurses referred to as "Triple H enemas" - high, hot, and a hell of a lot."
Sounds about right for Senator McCain.
okaawhatever
(9,457 posts)rest of the time I think he's a friggin' nut job. He voted for the universal background check gun bill and defended Obama's emotional speech about Congress' failure to pass it. Then a few days later I'm sure he said something repugnant. Odd bird, that one.
sheshe2
(83,639 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)We would all be glowing ashes right about now! The GOP is the Party of Death and War.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)Just toss around the idea of any sort of military conflict to this clown and he'll get a full stiffy for sure.
pa28
(6,145 posts)The overthrow of Ukraine's democratically elected government might be due, at least in part, to McCain's presence. Perhaps the opposition thought his presence indicated an official blessing of their activities by the US government.
Now he wants to send in US troops?
S.T.F.U you senile old man.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)"The overthrow of Ukraine's democratically elected government might be due, at least in part, to McCain's presence"
He was over there stirring the pot. Unfortunately, so was Sen Chris Murphy.
John McCain, the American senator, has told protesters in the Ukranian capital Kiev that their country's destiny lies with Europe - despite an EU official saying talks with the EU were 'on hold'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10518859/John-McCain-in-Kiev-Ukraine-will-make-Europe-better.html
KIEV, Ukraine A showdown between Russia on one side and the United States and the European Union on the other drew closer here Sunday, as two American senators told a crowd of hundreds of thousands of protesters that Ukraines future lies to the west, not the east.
We are here, said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), to support your just cause: the sovereign right to determine [Ukraines] own destiny freely and independently. And the destiny you seek lies in Europe.
Added Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.): Ukraines future stands with Europe, and the U.S. stands with Ukraine.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-ukraine-us-sens-mccain-murphy-address-protesters/2013/12/15/be72cffe-65b0-11e3-997b-9213b17dac97_story.html
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)I am sure he will be on all the morning shows. I do not watch. So tired of McCain. But he does rouse the right and they will be after the president. I appreciate that war is not the first option in the WH play book.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)if McCain did not come out, I would need a new battery am afraid.
Wolf Frankula
(3,598 posts)They Can't Fight! They will greet us with flowers!
They will fight. They will win. The next president of the United States will be a Russian or Chinese military governor.
Wolf
okaawhatever
(9,457 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)gulliver
(13,168 posts)Imagine if a loon like McCain had become president on the heels of fellow Republican George W. Bush.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)supporters right here.
Can't wait to see them and theirs all decked out in military garb as they board the military transport to Kiev/Crimera.