Daily Mail – by DAVID MARTOSKO IN NEW YORK, JILL REILLY and BECKY EVANS
With U.S. diplomats secretly talking with their Russian counterparts behind the scenes at the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg in hopes of avoiding a stalemate over Syria, publicly Moscow warned that a military strike on Syria could have catastrophic effects if a missile hit a small reactor near Damascus that contains radioactive uranium.
But a U.S. official attached to the United Nations delegation told MailOnline that while Obama’s admission on Wednesday that U.S.-Russia relations have ‘hit a wall,’ the president’s team is overreaching with an ambitious proposal that has no chance of success.
The talks started last week and are continuing both in Russia and New York, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak publicly about bilateral diplomatic talks.
He explained that Russia is insisting that Obama call off a planned military strike against Syria if either house of Congress declines to authorize it.
Meanwhile, U.S. diplomats are insisting that the Russians bend in the opposite direction. They want Putin’s government to entertain seriously a proposal from Saudi Arabia, which would require them to refrain from opposing UN Security Council resolutions pertaining to Syria and wind down its arms sales to Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Iron grip: U.S. diplomats are secretly talking with their Russian counterparts behind the scenes at the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg in hopes of avoiding a stalemate over Syria, while Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin show their stoic game faces in public.
All eyes on them: The world’s media watch as President Obama walks up to President Putin
‘The Russians are playing hardball,’ the source said, ‘and no one really knows right now if we can bend them.’
The Russian Foreign Ministry called on the U.N. nuclear agency to urgently assess the risk as the United States considers military action to punish Syria’s government for an alleged gas attack.
‘If a warhead, by design or by chance, were to hit the Miniature Neutron Source Reactor (MNSR) near Damascus, the consequences could be catastrophic,’ a ministry statement said.
It said nearby areas could be contaminated by highly enriched uranium and that it would be impossible to account for the nuclear material after such a strike, suggesting it could fall into the hands of people who might use it as a weapon.
Russia urged the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency secretariat to ‘react swiftly’ and present IAEA members ‘an analysis of the risks linked to possible American strikes on the MNSR and other facilities in Syria’.
Moscow has been the most powerful ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, shielding him from tougher U.N. resolutions and warning that a Western military attack on Syria would raise tensions and undermine efforts to end the country’s civil war.
‘The IAEA is aware of the statement but has not received a formal request from the Russian Federation,’ an IAEA spokesperson said. ‘We will consider the questions raised if we receive such a request.’
The IAEA said in a report to member states last week that Syria had declared there was a ‘small amount of nuclear material’ at the MNSR, a type of research reactor usually fuelled by highly enriched uranium.
Strained: Obama canceled a planned one-on-one meeting with Putin in Moscow ahead of the G20 gathering as it became clear the pair would not find common ground on Syria
Nuclear expert Mark Hibbs, of the Carnegie Endowment think-tank, said the MNSR was a very small reactor and there would not be a lot of nuclear material there.
But he said there could be ‘a serious local radiation hazard’ if there was irradiated nuclear material in the reactor and it was dispersed by a weapon strike.
Olli Heinonen, a former IAEA chief inspector, said the core of such a reactor typically has 1 kg of highly-enriched uranium, much less than the 25 kg that would be sufficient to build an atomic bomb.
‘Thus for nuclear explosive purposes it is of a limited value,’ he said in an e-mailed comment. Any radioactive contamination, he added, ‘would be a local problem’.
In 2007, Israel bombed a desert site in Syria that U.S. intelligence reports said was a nascent, North Korean-designed reactor geared to producing plutonium for nuclear weapons. Syria said the site, at Deir al-Zor, was a conventional military facility._
This comes as Russian Foreign Ministry officials said that they had compiled a 100-page report that details evidence that Syrian rebels and not forces loyal to President Bshar Assad carried out a deadly sarin nerve gas attack earlier this year.
A statement posted to the ministry’s website said that a report had been delivered to the United Nations in July that included detailed scientific analysis from Khan al Asal, the site of the alleged prior attack.
Expectation: Britain is expecting progress on the key issues of tax, transparency and trade at the summit which Mr Cameron put at the heart of the UK presidency of the G8 at the Lough Erne summit in Northern Ireland earlier this year.
Russian officials have said their investigation into the March 19th incident was conducted under the protocols established by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons – the international agency that governs the non-use of WMD.
Because of this report, the Russians have warned the United States and its allies not to rush into retaliation for the August 21 attack that shocked the world.
It added that the build up to potential military action bore all the hallmarks of the false claims and poor intelligence that preceded the United States-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
‘The Russian report is specific,’ the ministry statement said according to McClatchy News Tribune. ‘It is a scientific and technical document.’
The Russians also claimed that the focus on the August attack has diverted attention away from the March 19th incident.
However, another chemical weapons expert, Jean Pascal Zanders questioned the Russian assertion that the sarin mix appeared to be dated from the Second World War.
‘The Western Allies were not aware of the nerve agents until after the occupation of Germany,’ he wrote in an email to the McClatchy Report.
‘The USA, for example, struggled with the sarin (despite having some of the German scientists) until the 1950s, when the CW program expanded considerably.’
The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but a second source at the UN said on background that talks are ongoing, and that the United States wants Russia to abstain from any Security Council votes condemning Syria.
Putin said Wednesday that his government ‘doesn’t exclude’ going along with a UN resolution, but he is relying on its Security Council veto as a cudgel to attack the U.S.
The Russian president, a long-time ally of the Syrian dictator, said he could authorize his UN representative to support a resolution responding to the Syrian sarin gas attack on August 21 if the Security Council is provided with ‘evidence that would be obvious and prove beyond doubt who did it’. But he said that a US strike in the absence of Security Council approval would amount to an unprovoked invasion.
‘Anything outside the framework of the UN Security Council is aggression, other than self-defense,’ Putin said at the Kremlin. ‘What Congress and the Senate are doing now is essentially legitimizing aggression. This is unacceptable.’
He went on to call Kerry a liar. ‘This was very unpleasant and surprising for me. We talk to them (the Americans), and we assume they are decent people, but he is lying and he knows that he is lying. This is sad,’ Putin told the council.
This evening Obama was looking increasingly isolated on Syria as China, the European Union, emerging economic nations and Pope Francis – in a letter – warned of the dangers of military intervention without the approval of the U.N. Security Council.
Chinese Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao said: ‘Military action would have a negative impact on the global economy, especially on the oil price – it will cause a hike in the oil price.’
The BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – echoed that remark, and the Pope, who leads the world’s 1.2billion Roman Catholics, urged the G20 leaders to ‘lay aside the futile pursuit of a military solution’
European Union leaders described the Aug 21 attack near Damascus, which killed up to 1,400 people, as ‘abhorrent’ but said: ‘There is no military solution to the Syrian conflict.’
However, Obama said before talks with Japan’s prime minister that the use of chemical arms in Syria was ‘not only a tragedy but also a violation of international law that must be addressed.’
Aides said he would set out his views at the leaders’ dinner and hoped to build support for military action, although aides acknowledge a consensus might be hard to find.
Scrutiny: U.S. President Barack Obama, right, speaks with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin during arrivals
Smile for the cameras: President Putin welcomes Prime Minister David Cameron. Mr. Cameron was keen to support military intervention, but he lost a parliamentary vote on the issue last week
Welcome: President Putin speaks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel before the first working session of the G20 Summit in Constantine Palace
White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said: ‘We would not anticipate every member of the G20 agreeing about the way forward in Syria, particularly given the Russian position over many, many months now in terms of resisting efforts to hold the Assad regime accountable.’
Putin was isolated on Syria at a Group of Eight meeting in June, the last big summit of world powers, but could now turn the tables on Obama, who recently likened him to a ‘bored kid in the back of the classroom’ who slouches at meetings.
Only France, which has already said it is preparing to join U.S. military action, rallied loudly behind Obama.
‘We are convinced that if there is no punishment for Mr. Assad, there will be no negotiation,’ French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said before leaving for St. Petersburg.
With backing by Beijing and Moscow unlikely at the U.N. Security Council, where both have veto powers, Obama is seeking the approval of the U.S. Congress instead.
Putin says rebel forces may have carried out the poison gas attack and that any military strike without Security Council approval would violate international law, a view now being supported increasingly openly by others – including countries that have usually disagreed with Moscow on Syria.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and U.N. special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi are also in St. Petersburg to push for diplomacy rather than military options, and support efforts to organise an international peace conference on Syria.
Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, portrayed the ‘camp of supporters of a strike on Syria’ as divided, and said: ‘It is impossible to say that very many states support the idea of a military operation.’
Peskov also reiterated that the United States had failed to produce convincing proof that Assad, who is backed by Russian arms, and his forces had resorted to chemical warfare.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel saw no chance of agreement between Putin and Obama on Syria. U.S.-Russian ties have long been strained by political differences but went into freefall when Russia harboured Edward Snowden, a former spy agency contractor who leaked details of U.S. intelligence programmes.
The past 24 hours have not boded well for the Obama administration’s military plans in Syria. MailOnline reported Wednesday night that despite Secretary of State John Kerry’s assurances that there would be ‘no boots on the ground, the Department of Defense determined 20 months ago that securing Assad’s chemical weapons would require 75,000 or more ground troops.
President Barack Obama, left, listens as Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks during the start of the G-20 Working Session
A U.S. official attached to the United Nations delegation told MailOnline that while Obama’s admission on Wednesday that U.S.-Russia relations have ‘hit a wall,’ the president’s team is overreaching with an ambitious proposal that has no chance of success
Decisions: Putin said Wednesday that his government ‘doesn’t exclude’ going along with a UN resolution, but he is relying on its Security Council veto as a cudgel to attack the U.S
President Putin reads a statement at the opening of the session. The seating plan at the summit has reportedly been adjusted to put physical distance between him and President Obama
David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend the first working session of the summit. Germany said it has no plans for military action in Syria
Welcome: US President Barack Obama, left, and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right, shake hands before the start of their bilateral meeting
Talks: US President Barack Obama and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right, during their meeting at the G20 Summit
China’s President Xi Jinping, left, and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin speak with each other during a bilateral meeting at the G20 summit this morning.
Obama last night cleared the first hurdle to obtaining Congressional approval for a strike, as the influential Senate Foreign Affairs Committee backed the use of force by a margin of 10-7, moving the measure to a full Senate vote next week.
The proposal allows the use of force for 60 days, with the possibility of a 30-day extension.
But while the Senate moves steadily toward passage, the resolution increasingly appeared doomed in the House of Representatives. Various media-driven ‘whip counts’ – which predict how a vote will turn out based on public statements of members of Congress – estimate that as many as 200 of the 435 voting House members have already said they will oppose the measure.
With tensions running high over Syria in the run-up to an expected US military assault, the stage has been set for one of the most strained international summits in recent years.
The seating plan at the G20 summit has reportedly been adjusted to put physical distance between host President Vladimir Putin and President Barack Obama.
But the pair were quick to put on a show of smiles when Putin greeted Obama as he arrived at the Konstantin Palace in St. Petersburg this afternoon.
Ahead of the meeting of the leading world economies in St. Petersburg, Putin warned that action without UN approval would be ‘an aggression’ as the relationship between the two countries reaches it lowest point since the Cold War.
But President Obama, who is leading the international drive for an armed response to President Bashar Assad’s apparent breach of the prohibition on the use of chemical weapons, said the credibility of the international community was on the line.
Focus: The G20 summit is expected to be dominated by the issue of military action in Syria while issues surrounding the global economy, including tax avoidance by multinationals, will also be discussed during the two-day summit
Arrival: South Korean President Park Geun-hye, left, shakes hands with Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta at the start of their bilateral talks
Change of plan: Constantine Palace which is hosting the G20 summit. Ahead of the meeting of the leading world economies in St Petersburg, Mr Putin warned that action without UN approval would be ‘an aggression’
Grand: The palace, which will be the venue for an evening dinner was founded in 1715 by the first Russian Emperor Peter the Great and used as a summer residence that was meant to outshine the French Versailles
World stage: Constantine Palace in St. Petersburg, the venue for G20 leaders
VATICAN DENIES REPORTS THAT POPE FRANCIS CALLED ASSAD TO DISCUSS SYRIA
It was reported by a newspaper in Argentina today that the Pope had called Bashar al-Assad.
Clarin newspaper said that Pope Francis had called Assad in the last few hours’ and speculated that he may call the White House and France over the Syria crisis.
But a Vatican spokesman later issued a denial and instead said that Pope Francis had written about the crisis in Syria to Putin.
David Cameron arrived in Russia this morning and is already facing suggestions that he has been sidelined after ruling out British involvement in any military action in the wake of his shock Commons defeat last week.
He is not expected to have a formal bilateral meeting with President Obama.
The president has said he is confident of receiving approval from Congress for ‘limited and proportionate’ military action, which he said would not involve US troops putting ‘boots on the ground’ in Syria.
Assad had flouted a chemical weapons ban enshrined in treaties signed by governments representing 98 per cent of the world’s population, he said, adding: ‘I didn’t set a red line. The world set a red line.’
Speaking in Sweden as he traveled to St. Petersburg, the US president said the credibility of the international community was ‘on the line’ if it allowed Assad to act with impunity.
He repeated his ‘high confidence’ that the regime was to blame for the sarin gas attack on a suburb of Damascus on August 21 which the White House believes killed more than 1,400 people, including 400 children.
But today Russia is warning that a U.S. strike on Syria’s atomic facilities might result in a nuclear catastrophe and is urging the U.N. to present a risk analysis of such a scenario.
The warning comes from Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Alexander Lukashevich.
He said in a statement that a strike on a miniature reactor near Damascus or other nuclear installations could contaminate the region with radioactivity, adding: ‘The consequences could be catastrophic.’
IAEA spokeswoman Gill Tudor told the AP in an email that her agency is ready to ‘consider the questions raised’ by Lukashevich if it receives a formal request to do so from Moscow.
Russia’s Interfax news agency says that Moscow intends to bring up the issue at next week’s 35-nation IAEA board meeting.
Meanwhile, France’s prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, rallying support for French involvement in military action, told the National Assembly in Paris there was no doubt the Syrian government was to blame and a failure to react would allow Assad to launch a similar attack again.
Determined: President Obama, who is leading the international drive for an armed response to President Bashar Assad’s apparent breach of the prohibition on the use of chemical weapons, said the credibility of the international community was on the line
Deep in thought: US President Barack Obama disembarks from Air Force One, right, this morning as well as French President Francois Hollande, left
Testing time: David Cameron arrived in Russia this morning and is already facing suggestions that he has been sidelined after ruling out British involvement in any military action in the wake of his shock Commons defeat last week
David Cameron and George Osbourne, British Chancellor of the Exchequer arrive at the G20 summit
But Putin continues to say any evidence on culpability for the attack should be presented to the UN Security Council – where Russia has repeatedly blocked reprisals against Assad.
Obama cancelled a planned one-on-one meeting with Putin in Moscow ahead of the G20 gathering as it became clear the pair would not find common ground on Syria.
Mr. Cameron has said he will make the case at the G20 for a robust international response to the use of chemical weapons.
And he promised to use Britain’s ‘diplomatic muscle’ to press the international community to increase its support for an estimated two million civilians forced to flee their homes during Syria’s two-year civil war.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrives in St. Petersburg as well as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde
South Korea’s President Park Geun-Hye is welcomed as she arrives at Saint Petersburg’s airport
Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, left, arrives in St. Petersburg, Russia
India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, centre, greets members of the Indian delegation as he arrives
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma, left, and his wife Gloria Bongi Ngema step off the plane in St. Petersburg as well as President of Senegal Macky Sall
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, arrives in Russia for the meeting
Evening Meeting: G20 Summit members walk together after the first day of the G20 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The G20 summit is expected to be dominated by the issue of military action in Syria
In this handout image provided by Host Photo Agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin (5th L) walks with G20 Summit members after the first day of the G20 in St. Petersburg, Russia
French President Francois Hollande, (second left), speaks with British Prime Minister David Cameron, left, as they walk to a dinner event that will take place with other G-20 leaders at Peterhof Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013
British Prime Minister David Cameron (2-L) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (2-R) before the first working session of G20 summit in Constantine palace outside St. Petersburg, Russia, 05 September 2013
US President Barack Obama (C) talks to Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta (L) and British Prime Minister David Cameron (R) before the first working session of G20 summit in Constantine Palace outside St. Petersburg, Russia
Britain has already contributed £348 million to the humanitarian relief effort and Mr. Cameron is expected to announce further aid in St. Petersburg as he urges fellow leaders to dig deep for a UN appeal which has so far received less than half of the sums requested.
He will also seek agreement from fellow leaders on the need for better access for humanitarian workers to those affected by the fighting – including the establishment of safe routes for aid convoys and the removal of bureaucratic obstacles to non-governmental agencies trying to enter Syria to provide help on the ground.
The Prime Minister confirmed on Tuesday that the UK ‘can’t be part and won’t be part’ of any military strike as a result of his Commons defeat last week, but warned that it would be ‘perilous’ for the international community to let Assad escape unpunished.
He told MPs: ‘If no action is taken following President Obama’s red line and if no action is taken following this appalling use of chemical weapons, you have to ask yourself what sort of Armageddon are the Syrian people going to be facing?… I think we would see more chemical weapons attacks from the regime.’
Syria does not even feature on the formal agenda for the summit of an organisation which brings together 20 of the world’s most important economies to discuss issues like growth, financial stability and recovery from the global downturn.
President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso (L) talks to British Prime Minister David Cameron (R) before the first working session of G20 summit in Constantine palace outside St. Petersburg, Russia, 05 September 2013
General view of the dinner table of the G20 summit at Peterhof Palace on September 5, 2013 in Saint Petersburg. Russia hosts the G20 summit hoping to push forward an agenda to stimulate growth but with world leaders are distracted by Syria
Protests: A dozen art workers from the Muzei Vlasti tried to stage a protest against G20 Summit and took out the artwork by Russian artist Konstantin Altunin to unfold it for passers-by in downtown St. Petersburg but police withdrew it
Russian policemen detain an opposition activist, who tried to display a cartoon showing G20 leaders
An activist shows his posters for no international military intervention in the ongoing conflict in Syria to a policeman, as he pickets in Saint Petersburg
But the crisis is certain to dominate discussions on the margins of the two-day meeting, which comes amid indications of healthier recovery in countries like the UK, US and Japan, but faltering growth in emerging economies like China.
Britain will aim to use the formal proceedings in St. Petersburg to press for progress on priorities like tax transparency, reforms to the financial services sector and free trade. The UK will resist an expected push by Brazil and Argentina to water down anti-protectionist language in the summit communique.
Following phone calls in recent days with Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper and European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso, Mr. Cameron will be pressing for the completion of an EU-Canada free trade deal which eluded him at the Lough Erne G8 summit hosted by the UK in Northern Ireland earlier this year.
He will be joined by Chancellor George Osborne, as well as the Bank of England’s Mark Carney, who is the only central bank governor to attend in his role as chair of the international Financial Stability Board.
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What a trove of information!
And none of it looking good for America and its said Cameron is aghast at the way he has been “sidelined” with all manner of furies venting from the British Tory Party at Russia and more muted ones aimed at America. America is livid with Cameron but Cameron was told that Syria had to physically attack the UK or declare war before the royal prerogative could be used.
But its all going wrong for them, Russia and China are pilloried for the simple means of asking one simple question “Show us the evidence”.
Cameron has new evidence he claims… His evidence proves it was Sarin gas but there is no mention of certification of samples, no verification of where the samples were taken and this is where he will fall again for Assad’s Sarin is likely to have a different chemical signature to the home made stuff being brewed up by the rebels (Which Turkey and Iraq can attest to the happening of) but the point Cameron and Obama seem to miss is that no one is debating whether chemical weapons were used at all, it seems apparent to everyone.
Obama and Co can bleat on whilst the world refuses to listen to more lies, we are being condemned for not taking from pathological liars like Obama and Cameron as gospel when this current thing is almost Iraq in replay, for the Neo’s this is chickens home to roost time and time to accept that you can fool the people once, twice, maybe a third time but with each time more sceptics are born.
This has put the Neos plans into massive disarray, all the energy, money, power and effort in moving towards Syria, Libya went wrong, Egypt became a farce as did Georgia, Pakistan is all but in Russia’s pocket, Turkey torn in two, Iran is still a distant goal that will take many years to get so near yet so far.
And so Obama with Israel, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain in tow whilst Britain is in the naughty corner is trying to persuade people to listen to his sales pitch, not in modern history has a US President been shown to carry so little favour and a weak Prime Minister clutching his evidence a la Chamberlain as if it was peace in our time.
The bottom line is actions speak louder than words, or you could say money talks and BS walks. Both Russia and China are spending a lot of money sending war ships to the area where we already spent a lot of money sending our warships. The stale mate is over who is going to lose their asses and send their toys home empty handed. Last time we spent that kind of money we were presented with an analysis on fake documents from nigeria on the Phil Donahue show. The next day Phil’s show was cancelled and we attacked Iraq. This is a very, very serious situation. If we don’t bring our toys home and eat the loss, neither will China nor Russia. We will witness WWIII. That is the bottom line. Here are the players….Russia has a mutual defnese pact with Iran, Iran has a mutual defnese pact with Russia,China and Pakistan..Egypt has already made a vocal declaration that they will defend Syria. Russia has several satellite states, China has North Korea, Lebanon will fight with Syria. Who do we have…..um….maybe we can get Britan…maybe France, Suadi Arabia never seems to get physically involved with our wars for Israel…but who knows…and Israel. For certain it would be us and Israel…
Here’s the big question…now remember during WWII Germany had submarines in our waters …here in the US, Is it likely that China and Russia will invade us here if we go to war? Sure why wouldn’t they? We would be playing the role of Germany in this scenario…we are the evil empire invading other nations committing atrocities. It is very likely that we will get invaded.
Yep, and that’s the way it is being set up. We have our borders open for invasion and even have Russian subs in the Gulf of Mexico the last time I checked, if they are still there. We even have 15,000 Russian troops if not more and Chinese troops in Mexico, waiting for the bell to ring along with Mexico’s drug cartels. It’s going to be a beautiful day in the country, ain’t it?
I don’t think Germany was ever evil; I think it was the other way around.
“Germany must perish” The only two real cultures in the world, Germany and
Japan. The real holocaust was ethnic Germans not the jews. And should
an attack on Syria occur based on unfounded accusations, again another
holocaust. The real criminals never pay the price.
OMG! Just look at Obama’s car. It’s a FRIGGIN TANK!!! Everyone is looking at it like, “WTF? Who the hell does this guy think he is?”
I wonder if it transforms into a plane or a submarine like one of those Bond films. Wouldn’t surprise me. Gotta protect the devil, you know.
Gee….from the looks in the pictures, I’d say Cameron looks like he is lost or out of the loop on things. He just looks completely baffled.
Gee, all the puppet leaders walking in one place together. Man, what are the chances…..
What I wouldn’t give for one of those missing nukes right now. That would definitely give the elite a “shock and awe” feeling right back at them, now wouldn’t it?
The picture of Obama with David Cameron and Enrico Letta is hilarious. He looks like a monkey between two idiots. If there was ever a time where he was caught looking like a monkey, that would definitely be it.
Man, put that monkey back into his cage, lock it and throw away the key and send his ass back to the Kenyan Zoo where he belongs.
I must say that I really like Putin. He strikes me as what we would call here a man’s man. The expressions on his face while dealing with other Western leaders are priceless. He is smiling in a non-sycophantic way while his eyes are beaming his true feelings.
I would love to see him just rabbit punch Obama. Just once. I would put him on my Christmas card list.
Look at Cameron walking out of the plane. Hahaha! He looks like he’s straining hard to shit his pants.
Can someone tell me why the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde is at a puppet leader summit? International Bankers need to send a representative to make sure the puppet investments are in line and doing what they are paid to do?