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Related: About this forumEuropeans Laugh as Lavrov Talks Ukraine
Europeans Laugh as Lavrov Talks UkraineFEB 7, 2015 10:00 PM EST
By Josh Rogin
In the span of 45 minutes today, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov rewrote the history of the Cold War, accused the West of fomenting a coup in Ukraine and declared himself a champion of the United Nations Charter. The crowd here in Germany laughed at and then booed him, but he didnt seem to care.
When Lavrov took the stage Saturday morning at the Munich Security Conference, he knew it was going to be a tough crowd. He was speaking just after German Chancellor Angela Merkel and ahead of U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden. For two days, almost all of the panelists at the conference had railed
More: Russias actions in Ukraine. The debates were not over whether Russia was a bad actor spoiling international security, but rather how to deal with that consensus view.
He looked nervous, perhaps because Sergei Ivanov, chief of staff to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Lavrov's superior, was sitting in the front row, staring at him as if to warn him not to mess up. But none of that kept him from turning in an audacious performance.
In any situation, the United States is trying to blame Russia for everything," he said. "Russia will be committed to peace. We are against combat. We would like to see a withdrawal of heavy weapons.
More: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-02-08/lavrov-s-comedy-routine-on-ukraine-isn-t-funny-to-europe?cmpid=yhoo
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Europeans Laugh as Lavrov Talks Ukraine (Original Post)
ColesCountyDem
Feb 2015
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jakeXT
(10,575 posts)1. Maybe they can vote on a No-Fly Zone to protect the civilians like they did in Libya
/sarcasm
OverseaVisitor
(296 posts)2. Here is the you tube video of his speech
where is the booing and laughing
I see serious faces and some clapping at the end
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)3. "For now we see through a glass, darkly"...
Thanks for posting the video. The Bloomberg report reads like fan fiction, the writer certainly has a good imagination.
How can we make rational decisions when we're fed such distortions?
OverseaVisitor
(296 posts)4. Now a day news is about shaping perception
It is also about a culture of hate.
Of course nothing new there.
Kings through the ages always claim they are right and the other side is evil.
How else can one convince the peasant to fight each other.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)5. a new
Baghdad Bob.