Why Russian diplomats are laughing at US "thug life" foreign policy

[Jayke]

A recent article from the saker...(for those not familiar with The Sakers blog, he's a Russian ex-NATO employee living in the US, who provides geopolitical commentary and analysis from the Russian perspective--his insights make an excellent tonic for the drivel forcefed to us by the mainstream media).

http://thesaker.is/make-no-mistake-t...-not-strength/

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September 3 2017

Make no mistake, the latest US thuggery is a sign of weakness, not strength

For a while already the Russian diplomats have been openly saying that their American counterparts are недоговороспособны or “non-agreement capable”. This all began under Obama, when Kerry flew to meet with Lavrov and declared ‘A’, then flew back to Washington, DC and declared ‘B’. Then there were the cases in Syria when the US agreed to a deal only to break that very same deal in less than 24 hours. That’s when the Russians openly began to say that their US colleagues are rank amateurs who lack even the basic professionalism to get anything done.

Now the US has slipped even lower: the Russians speak of US “hellish buffoonery” and “stupid thuggery”.

Wow!

For the normally hyper-diplomatic Russians, this kind of language is absolutely unheard of, this has never ever happened before. You could say that the Russians are naive, but they believe that their diplomats should always be, well, diplomatic, and that public expressions of disgust is just not something a diplomat does. Even more telling is rather than call the Americans “evil” or “devious”, they openly express their total contempt for them, calling them stupid, incompetent, uneducated and their actions unlawful (read Maria Zakharova’s statement to that effect on Facebook).

So let me explain what is happening here how the Russians interpreted the latest US thuggery concerning the Russian Consulate in San Francisco and the Russian diplomatic annexes in Washington and New York.

First, the Russians fully expected the Americans to retaliate after the Russian expulsion of US diplomatic personnel in Russia. That, by itself, is not the problem. The Russians understand that Trump is a cornered and weak President, that he has to show how “tough” he is. Sure, they smile, but they think that this is ‘fair game’. The Russians also know that, as a country, the USA cannot accept the biggest reduction in US diplomatic personnel in history without reacting. Again, they don’t necessarily like it, but they think that this is ‘fair game’.

You know what really triggered the Russians off? The fact that the Americans gave them only 2 days to vacate the premises they would seize and that they organized some kind of bizarre search operation. Let me immediately explain that this is not a case of ruffled feathers by the Russians, not at all. But here is how they would think about it:

“Why would they give us only 2 days? Do they really think that we cannot clear the premises from anything sensitive in 60 minutes if needed? Or are they actually trying to inconvenience our personnel? If so, do they really think that we are going to break out in hysterics? Do the Americans really think that they will find something? What? Papers proving that Trump is our agent? Maybe a hidden nuclear device? Or the computers we used to hack in every server in the USA?” To a Russian, these questions can only have one answer: of course not. So what is going on here? And then there is the only possible explanation left:

“We beat them is Syria, we are beat them in the Ukraine, they lost Afghanistan, they lost Iraq, their Navy apparently does not know how to use a radar, their soldiers are terrified to fight somebody capable of resistance, they failed to impress not only China, but even the North Koreans who are openly laughing at them. Hezbollah laughs at them. Even Venezuela refuses to be scared! The Iranians openly threaten them with consequences if they back out of the deal they signed. Even Pakistan is openly expressing its disgust with the USA. Ditto for Turkey. Heck – the Americans are losing on all fronts and the very best they can do is try to feel good about illegally harassing our diplomatic personnel! Pathetic, lame, losers!”

And they are 100% correct.

The latest US thuggery against Russian diplomats is as stupid as it is senseless. I think that US diplomats of the era of James Baker must be absolutely mortified to see the kind of idiocy their successors are now engaging in.

This is also the end of Rex Tillerson. The poor man now has only two options left: resign (that would be the honorable thing to do) or stay and become another castrated eunuch unable to even deal with the likes of Nikki Haley, nevermind the North Koreans!

A “spokesperson” for the White House declared that Trump personally ordered the latest thuggery. Okay, that means one of two thing: either Trump is so weak that he cannot even fire a lying spokesperson or that he has now fallen so low as to order the “thug life” behavior of the State Department. Either way, it is a disgrace.

This is also really scary. The combination of, on one hand, spineless subservience to the Neocons with intellectual mediocrity, a gross lack of professionalism and the kind of petty thuggery normally associated with street gangs and, on the other hand, nuclear weapons is very scary. In the mean time, the other nuclear armed crazies have just declared that they have a thermonuclear device which they apparently tested yesterday just to show their contempt for Trump and his general minions. I don’t think that they have a hydrogen bomb. I don’t think that they have a real ICBM. I don’t even think that they have real (usable) nuclear warheads. But what if I am wrong? What if they did get a lot of what they claim to have today – such as rocket engines – from the Ukies?

In one corner, the Outstanding Leader, Brilliant Comrade, Young Master and Great Successor, Kim Jong-un and on the other, The Donald, Grab them by the xxxxx and Make ‘Merica Great, the Grand Covfefe Donald Trump. Both armed with nukes.

Scary, scary ****. Really scary.

But even more scary and depressing is that the stronger man of the two is beyond any doubt Kim Jong-un.

All I see in the White House are vacancy signs.

The Saker

[Chester]

"Yep"... embarrassed to agree but...

"Yep."

[Desire]

I fear that if Hillery got in we would already be in war. He has very little help from the establishment right who preferred Clinton. Sad situation. seems they are all bought and paid for on both sides. Trump is trying for us but it is a hard road ahead.

[Sequoia]

Thanks Jayke for your article post!

I read this article earlier today on Sputnik News:
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201...a-cooperation/

"It is difficult to have a dialogue with people who confuse Austria with Australia. You can do nothing about it. That seems to be the level of political culture of a certain part of the American establishment," Putin said at a press conference following the results of his participation at the BRICS summit.

Putin also said that "the American nation, the American people, America is really a great country, a great nation… of such people with such a low level of political culture."

I might want to add that the American politicians and leaders lack in any understanding of world history - political history, military history, basic knowledge of any history for that matter it seems... and to think that cutting diplomatic ties, the avenues of direct communication, that have taken time and finesse to cultivate and build, are torn down by these embarrassingly simple minded politicians, show not only weakness but utmost ignorance and immaturity. It truly is a shame.

[Cardillac]

now here in Germany the MSM is already "assuming" Russia will influence the up-coming German (s)elections; give us a break!

"It is difficult to have a dialogue with people who confuse Austria with Australia"- absoltely right; decades ago T-shirts being sold in Austria had the following written logo on the shirts (probably because American tourists couldn't tell the difference between Austria and Australia):

AUSTRIA

NO, WE DON'T HAVE ANY KANGEROOS

be well all-

Larry

[Bubu]

"Make no mistake, the latest US thuggery is a sign of weakness, not strength"

Exactly, and thats also what I am concerned of. a desperate move and/or the reset plan.

"Strictly speaking, they are not diplomats accredited in the US State Department, but they are diplomats working in an international organization," Putin stressed.

good that Putin and company knew this. If ever war breaks out he will probably herd these international thugs, just like Hitler did in the previous WW

[Bubu]

Is this some kind of mockery???
"North Korea: 'More gift packages' coming for the US"

"North Korea has threatened to send "more gift packages" to the United States, days after testing the biggest nuclear weapon it has ever detonated.

Han Tae-song, ambassador of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to the United Nations in Geneva, addressed the UN-sponsored Conference on Disarmament on Tuesday after his country carried out its sixth nuclear test.

"I am proud of saying that just two days ago on the 3rd of September, DPRK successfully carried out a hydrogen bomb test for intercontinental ballistic rocket under its plan for building a strategic nuclear force," Han told the Geneva forum.

"The recent self-defence measures by my country, DPRK, are a gift package addressed to none other than the US," Han said.

"The US will receive more gift packages from my country as long as it relies on reckless provocations and futile attempts to put pressure on the DPRK," he added without elaborating.

READ MORE: Vladimir Putin opposes military action against North Korea

Military measures being taken by North Korea were "an exercise of restraint and justified self-defence right" to counter "the ever-growing and decade-long US nuclear threat and hostile policy aimed at isolating my country".

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/0...zen.yandex.com

[Cidersomerset]

Part of 'Russia Gate' is posturing and the US has been provoking Russia since
the allegations began.....The State dept spokeswoman was embarrassingly
left looking rather perplexed as she was challenged for calling the raids on
Russian property as a 'tour'. After correcting herself she accused all the journalists
from being from RT tongue in cheek. But it did not hide the more serious side to
all this 'Russian bating'...

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...=1#post1178771

‘I do not know if you work for RT today’ – State Dept spox to AP's Matt Lee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OaNzaaXK94

Published on 7 Sep 2017
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert was left lost for words when
grilled by reporters about the searches carried out by US agents on the Russian
consulate building in San Francisco and other Russian premises, which she
described as a 'tour.' READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/8mhe

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US officials toured Russian facilities - State Dept spox on sweeping diplomatic premises

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AbCYhIYBao4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbCYhIYBao4
Published on 7 Sep 2017
U.S. State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert came under a verbal attack
from a number of journalists who were craving for a comment on the searches in
the Russian vacated consulate in San Francisco.

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'Violation of international law': Russian trade mission in DC closed, searches ongoing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KApwpwxnYGY

Published on 2 Sep 2017
The Russian trade mission in Washington has been closed and its staff barred
access, Russia’s US embassy spokesman said, adding the US State Department is
formally leading the searches in the building

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Things Too Tense: Moscow protests ‘illegal search’ of Russian Consulate in US

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5oR6qPNYlI

Published on 2 Sep 2017
Russia has summoned the deputy-chief of the US diplomatic mission in the country
to express anger at the American security service's intention, to search a Russian
consulate. Moscow has described it as a clear act of aggression.Former US
diplomats RT talked to, believe the plan to search the consulate would be pointless.