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........well I look at the facts and the facts are Russia did invade the Ukraine and annexed part of it, that isnt a lie its a well established fact.
So, based on that I would say Russia does the potential to be a threat to the rest of Europe.

look at these facts then:

The USA is actively pursuing military encirclement of Russia.
The USA is actively pursuing "full-spectrum" world domination.

Perhaps you have a short attention span

What specifically leads you to that premise?

Is Vladimir Putin, as the potentially "single greatest threat" to Britain's security, bigger badder and meaner than climate change?

Were the 'rules' of a "rules-based international order" crafted for and by imperialists?

Does the "increasingly aggressive stance of the Russian military" have anything to do with NATO on their doorstep? Or maybe "Russian aircraft around the sovereign airspace of Nato states" might suggest they're pretty mad for a good reason?

Does not "The rapid pace with which Russia is seeking to modernise her military forces" pale in comparison to the USA spending trillions to upgrade its own ICBMs?

Every goddamn sentence is dripping with hyperbolic hypocritical bullshit. And then:

"...are all significant causes of concern"

fuck their cowardly concern-trolling.
Enough?

please. The UK is using harsh language. So? Do you think they're just doing that for fun, out of the blue? No. There's a good reason the world is extremely worried about Russia's military aggression lately.

Because it leads to rash actions by people who have a vested monetary interest in war profiteering.
Russia is not threatening the UK with shit.

But the hyperbolic bullshit of his statement will not cause Putin to "reassess things."

JMO!!

A calm logical approach is what is called for.

Hammond is a right-wing turkey. He should sit with our House of Teabaggery.

Since two years of showing our dirty laundry (while ignoring other certain countries) has only made Russia's position stronger in the meantime...

Sun Tzu laid all that out long ago...

And people won't like it. Sun Tzu could have told them that too.

I get it: Russia is stronger because some truth about us was spoken publicly.
Our crimes = their strength?
A pathetic analysis of the dynamics at work here, in my humble opinion.

but ignore Russia, China, etc. doing the same things, and worse??

Please keep thinking there's no connection between Snowden's defection and Russia flexing her muscles in front of the NATO members...

and take your American Exceptionalism (aka Superiority) somewhere else.
It rings quite hollow to me.

Because I ain't going anywheres, chief...

they are doing a fine job, all by themselves, of destroying it. If they need outside help in their suicide, they always call in the US.

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"We are now faced with a Russian leader bent not on joining the international rules-based system which keeps the peace between nations, but on subverting it ... with Russia's aggressive behaviour a stark reminder that it has the potential to pose the single greatest threat to our society," Philip Hammond said.

Then he reminded his audience of defence experts at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) that "it is no coincidence that all the (intelligence) agencies are recruiting Russian speakers again".

Really? It would be interesting to find out who it was that let the Russian speakers and other experts who grew up during the Cold War wander off.

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But the failure to comprehend that Vladimir Putin would invade Ukraine should not be laid at the doors of Vauxhall Cross.

That responsibility lies squarely on the shoulders of ministers across Europe and in NATO member states, who could not see that the Kremlin would no more let go of its power over Ukraine that it did over Georgia.

http://news.sky.com/story/1442425/dont-blame-british-spies-for-ukraine-crisis

All the other rules: "See rule #1."

But really, there are no rules, just rulers, most of them shallow and greedy.

I'm crying some crocodile tears for them.