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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOPINION: Biden in Romania Talks Reveals Extramundane Nature of US Push for War
MOSCOW, May 22 (RIA Novosti), Rick Rozoff - US Vice President Joseph Biden appeared at a military base in the capital of Romania on May 20 and, against the backdrop of this year's annual Carpathian Spring joint military exercises, announced that Washington's willingness to go to war over the mutual military support clause of the 1949 North Atlantic Treaty, the founding document of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is not only clear and unwavering, but indeed of a mock-religious - extramundane and sempiternal - nature.
In his precise words: "America's commitment to collective defense under Article 5 of NATO is a sacred obligation in our view - a sacred obligation not just for now, but for all time." In aeternum, in saecula saeculorum and in line with eschatological imperatives.
Biden, the once, (near) future and perennial candidate to succeed the current commander-in-chief of the world's sole military superpower (the exact words of his current superior, President Barack Obama in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech of five years ago), an abrasive and pugnacious Walter Mitty of a malign bent who has often experienced difficulties distinguishing between fact and fiction, campaign claims and occurrences in the real world, and his own modest abilities and megalomaniacal inflation thereof, began his speech in Romania upbraiding his hosts for not providing him the clement weather a personage of his elevated stature deserves and had, moreover, been promised, querulously and inconsistently grousing, "it's very hot in here. I was supposed to - I was told it was going to be cooler here, but thank you for the great weather."
A Roman emperor, Trajan for example, the conqueror of Dacia (modern-day Romania), would have severely chastised and as severely punished the leaders of a subjugated province for not having secured nicer weather for a visiting imperial dignitary of Biden's rank.
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http://en.ria.ru/world/20140522/190048201/OPINION-Biden-in-Romania-Talks-Reveals-Extramundane-Nature-of-US.html
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)"an abrasive and pugnacious Walter Mitty of a malign bent who has often experienced difficulties distinguishing between fact and fiction, campaign claims and occurrences in the real world, and his own modest abilities and megalomaniacal inflation thereof..."
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)On 9 December 2013 President of Russia Vladimir Putin signed the liquidation of RIA Novosti and merging it with the international radio service Voice of Russia to create International Information Agency Russia Today.[2] Dmitry Konstantinovich Kiselev, a former anchorman of the Channel One Russia is appointed as the president of the new information agency. It is unclear at the moment whether the new agency will include the TV network Russia Today.[3][13] According to her interview, the editor-in-chief of the TV network Russia Today, Margarita Simonyan was completely unaware about the reorganization of the information agency and got the information from listening competitor radio station Kommersant-FM.[14]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ria_novosti
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)yes, an op/ed. by these people:
Kremlin Appoints Gay-Bashing Anchor to Lead Its Media Empire
The government of Russian President Vladimir Putin has disbanded long-running state news agency RIA Novosti and reorganized it under a new, even more propagandistic operation a sign, critics fear, of Putin's deepening authoritarianism
The Kremlin has chosen its messenger. Dmitri Kiselyov, the Russian news anchor known for his on-air tirades against Americans and homosexuals, was appointed on Monday to lead a new state-run media conglomerate, Rossiya Segodnya (Russia Today). Even among the cynical ranks of Russias journalists, the news came as a shock. But it was not so much the fear of censorship that bothered them the airwaves in Russia are already tightly controlled by the state. It was rather the standard-bearer President Vladimir Putin chose, one whose venom toward the West and its values would make all but the fiercest Cold Warriors recoil.
http://world.time.com/2013/12/09/kremlin-appoints-gay-bashing-anchor-to-lead-its-media-empire/
This is the burn the gay hearts guy.
maggiesfarmer
(297 posts)America's commitment to collective defense under Article 5 of NATO is a sacred obligation in our view - a sacred obligation not just for now, but for all time
speaking of "sacred obligation"? I always hated when Bush sprinkled his political speech with similar religious points.
or is he tweaking his adjectives in playing to an Eastern European crowd?
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)No one there has made sense lately, especially their figure skaters.