Putin has had enough of the relentless barrage of US accusations that he, personally, “hacked the US presidential election.”
The Russian president’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said on Friday that the US must either stop accusing Russia of meddling in its elections or prove it. Peskov said it was “indecent” of the United States to “groundlessly” accuse Russia of intervention in its elections.
“You need to either stop talking about it, or finally show some kind of proof. Otherwise it just looks very indecent”, Peskov told Reporters in Tokyo where Putin is meeting with Japan PM Abe, responding to the latest accusations that Russia was responsible for hacker attacks.
Peskov also warned that Obama’s threat to “retaliate” to the alleged Russian hack is “against both American and international law”, hinting at open-ended escalation should Obama take the podium today at 2:15pm to officially launch cyberwar against Russia.
Previously, on Thursday, Peskov told the AP the report was “laughable nonsense“, while Russian foreign ministry spox Maria Zakharova accused “Western media” of being a “shill” and a “mouthpiece of various power groups”, and added that “it’s not the general public who’s being manipulated,” Zakharova said. “the general public nowadays can distinguish the truth. It’s the mass media that is manipulating themselves.”
Meanwhile, on Friday Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister told state television network, Russia 24, he was “dumbstruck” by the NBC report which alleges that Russian President Vladimir Putin was personally involved in an election hack.
The report cited U.S. intelligence officials that now believe with a “high level of confidence” that Putin became personally involved in a secret campaign to influence the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. “I think this is just silly, and the futility of the attempt to convince somebody of this is absolutely obvious,” Lavrov added, according to the news outlet.
As a reminder, last night Obama vowed retaliatory action against Russia for its meddling in the US presidential election last month. “I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections that we need to take action and we will at a time and place of our own choosing,” Obama told National Public Radio.
US intelligence agencies in October pinned blame on Russia for election-related hacking. At the time, the White House vowed a “proportional response” to the cyberactivity, though declined to preview what that response might entail. Meanwhile, both President-elect Donald Trump, the FBI, and the ODNI have dismissed the CIA’s intelligence community’s assessment, for the the same reason Putin finally lashed out at Obama: there is no proof.
That, however, has never stopped the US from escalating a geopolitical conflict to the point of war, or beyond, so pay close attention to what Obama says this afternoon.
According to an NBC report, a team of analysts at Eurasia Group said in a note on Friday that they believe the outgoing administration is likely to take action which could result in a significant barrier for Trump’s team once he takes office in January.
“It is unlikely that U.S. intelligence reports will change Trump’s intention to initiate a rapprochement with Moscow, but the congressional response following its own investigations could obstruct the new administration’s effort,” Eurasia Group analysts added.
At the same time, Wikileaks offered its “validation” services, tweeting that “Obama should submit any Putin documents to WikiLeaks to be authenticated to our standards if he wants them to be seen as credible.”
Obama should submit any Putin documents to WikiLeaks to be authenticated to our standards if he wants them to be seen as credible.
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) December 16, 2016
We doubt Obama would take the whistleblower organization on its offer, even if he did have any Putin documents to authenticate.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-16/putin-lashes-out-obama-show-some-proof-or-shut
Bout time some one said put up or shut up
Putin; “If I could hack your elections, you wouldn’t have had 8 years of Obama”
“I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections that we need to take action…”
Agree 100%.
And you, being said ‘foreign government’, will need to be eliminated.
Well, the only way to settle this is to put both in a boxing ring. May the best President win…..Well we all know who the best President is. I just want to see Barry get the Sh!t kicked out of him.
Goofy! Put Obama and Putin in a boxing ring and watch O get his back side kicked real good.
Put it on pay preview and we might get out of debt!
“Show Some Proof Or Shut Up”
Thank you, Mr. Putin. Enough said about this “issue” right there.
No. This little lady is not Jane Seymour. She is a Russian Federation foreign ministry spokesman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVoLgD1RIxE
This gal is actually holding back from saying a lot more, but in “dipomatees” that is the most she’s going to say. Knowing Russians very very well I can tell you that she is PISSED about something and is really holding back in what she’s saying. I’ve seen this look also among Germans too whom I know very well also. She’s almost beside herself PISSED. If I were an American man I’d be hard pressed to calm her down. Here to tell you.
The Russian people know what is going on. They know about the NWO plans against them.
As I consider this issue. The left/Hilary communist/socialists have not once denied point blank that the Pizzar gate stories are lies.
Instead, they claim they are ‘fake’. Well when it comes to the definition of fake these miscreants would know since they are total fakes, imposters and hypocrites.
This is just another crazy idea of theirs to stop all free thinking people. Hear no evil, do no evil, speak no evil about their evil deeds.And, now, they’ve added the fourth plank of their demonic plan=think no evil. ie. there’s nothing happening here, move along.
Too bad, so sad, that there are so many awake people who are aware today. We are looking straight at them doing their dirty deeds.
But, since they are dead bent on annihilating us, our families, and plunging our world into their dark evil world view, I say please bring it on now.
They may start this fight, but we will finish it.
Nobody on their evil side is at the helm of their ship. And it’s sinking.
Obama has a poseur all know…