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(9,223 posts) Mon May 5, 2014, 08:19 PM May 2014

Russia invading Ukraine in 'slow motion,' Harper tells NATO

Source: The Canadian Press

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Russia is mounting a "slow-motion" invasion of Ukraine.

Harper made the comment today at the start of talks with U.S. Gen. Philip Breedlove, NATO's supreme commander. The prime minister's office invited cameras in but said no questions from reporters would be allowed.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/russia-invading-ukraine-in-slow-motion-harper-tells-nato-1.2632522

Dr. Strangelove all over again. (Something repeating itself?)

If you watch the video, looks like fries are now ok? So to summarize we now have General XX Harper sitting there without his clothes on!

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Russia invading Ukraine in 'slow motion,' Harper tells NATO (Original Post) CHIMO May 2014 OP

A Reasonably Accurate Characterization, Sir The Magistrate May 2014 #1

And he would be right Duckhunter935 May 2014 #2

Leave putin alone, Harper.. everyone just leave him the hell alone. Wah wah wah Cha May 2014 #3

So why should Harper be trusted on this? swilton May 2014 #4

Don't shoot the message on account of the messenger. Tommy_Carcetti May 2014 #5

The Magistrate

(95,247 posts)

1. A Reasonably Accurate Characterization, Sir

Reply to CHIMO (Original post)

Mon May 5, 2014, 08:35 PM

May 2014

Hardly a ringing cry for nuclear war, let alone urgent calls to close the mine-shaft gap....

Duckhunter935

(16,974 posts)

2. And he would be right

Reply to CHIMO (Original post)

Mon May 5, 2014, 08:48 PM

May 2014

They will slowly take over the East and South.

Cha

(297,317 posts)

3. Leave putin alone, Harper.. everyone just leave him the hell alone. Wah wah wah

Reply to CHIMO (Original post)

Tue May 6, 2014, 02:56 AM

May 2014

swilton

(5,069 posts)

4. So why should Harper be trusted on this?

Reply to CHIMO (Original post)

Tue May 6, 2014, 04:20 PM

May 2014

He is from the conservative (i.e. anti environmental) wing of his conservative party and it is unlikely he will run again as PM.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/news/stephen-harper-approval-rating/

Criticized in his anti-environmental policies for censoring environmental scientists, he is behind pushing the Trans XL pipeline and all of the havoc it has wreaked in Canada...

Asking him for his opinion on NATO and Ukraine is equivalent to seeking advice from Condosleeza Rice.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts)

5. Don't shoot the message on account of the messenger.

Reply to swilton (Reply #4)

Tue May 6, 2014, 05:08 PM

May 2014

Remember who said this:

"I would like to remind you that this is Novorossiya - the term used back in the tsarist epoch. Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, Odessa were not part of Ukraine in the tsarist epoch. These are the territories which were turned over to Ukraine by the former Soviet government in the 1920s. God knows what they did that for.

All this dates back to the victories won by tsarist Russia in notorious wars in the epoch of Catherine the Great and Prince Potyomkin with the center in Novorossiysk; hence the name- Novorossiya. Then for different reasons these territories were lost, but the people remained."

Wasn't that long ago, actually. Less than a month.

I'll give you a hint. It rhymes with "Pladamir Vutin."

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