'This Is Not Rocky IV': Kerry Tells Russia To Be 'Very Careful' As Putin Puts Country On War Footing

[Purveyor]

Source: The Independent UK

Kashmira Gander Author Biography
Wednesday 26 February 2014

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday that Russia must be “very careful” in the decisions it makes on Ukraine, and that the country’s President should remember “this is not Rocky IV”.

“I think Russia needs to be very careful in the judgments that it makes going forward here,” he told US TV network NBC News.

“We are not looking for confrontation. But we are making it clear that every country should respect the territorial integrity here, the sovereignty of Ukraine.

“Russia has said it would do that and we think it’s important that Russia keeps its word,” he added.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/this-is-not-rocky-iv-kerry-tells-russia-to-be-very-careful-as-putin-puts-country-on-war-footing-9155515.html

[Capt. Obvious]

1. If he dies, he dies

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. Did Putin say he was going to punch out Apollo Creed?

[dipsydoodle]

3. Oh how witty...............NOT

Totally ignorant of the fact that Russia does this as a matter of routine 6 times a year the biggest in recent history being last July.

Anyone got link to similar witty remarks Kerry made on the subject last July quite aside from the other 5 last year.

[loli phabay]

10. dont even know if putin would get the reference, i didnt

[dipsydoodle]

12. May have got someone to translate it

and then said "Oh - how droll" back in Russian.

[loli phabay]

13. lol, yup. i did have to look it up was trying to figure what the hell it meant.

[dipsydoodle]

14. I knew immediately

which is why I regarded it as being in extremely poor taste.

[Excelsyor]

4. If Putin commits war crimes

Will Obama support prosecution against him and not Cheney?

[dipsydoodle]

5. The United States is not a participant in the International Criminal Court

Not Obama's affair.

[Xolodno]

6. Russia will intervene Militarily....

...when it "has to".

East Ukraine is very likely to split from the west. If the western Ukraine responds with Military force on the east...civil war is on. Couple of things could happen:

1. Stalemate...West allows East to leave or join with Russia.

2. Things go bad for the West...USA and EU negotiate a peace settlement...and walk away.

3. Things go bad for the East....Russia intervenes as "peacekeepers" to stop the attack on Russian Citizens and "War Crimes" against the Russian speaking populace.

[loli phabay]

11. this is a good post, there is no way russia will stand by if ethnic russians ask for intervention

it all depends on how the populace splits ethnically and by region.

[bigdarryl]

7. It's none of our business what Russia does

We need to worry about the problems in this country

[greiner3]

18. I got it but how many on this post knew you just forgot the appropriate smilie!

[GeorgeGist]

8. Not Bullwinkle either.

[TwilightGardener]

9. Oh jeez. Whoever's coming up with the talking points needs to

cease and desist.

[lsewpershad]

15. Kerry

needs to [honestly and truthfully] answer this question... Is America involved in the protests. What the hell were US senator[s] doing over there?

[peoli]

16. Everything is Rocky IV!!!!!

[daleo]

17. Remember, Kerry

First rule of warfare:

Don't invade Russia.

[rafeh1]

19. 2nd rule

2. No matter how deeply you feel you must liberate Russia ignore these feelings.
3. See rule 2.

___________________________
Three rules of war taught in west point.
1. Mother hood
2. Apple pie
3. No land war in Asia

[daleo]

22. And for this purpose, Russia is in Asia

[greyl]

20. I never want to hear that again;

the "this is not Rocky IV" groaner.

[yurbud]

21. shut up. jesus, from war protester to war monger