Russians are running diplomatic circles around the West

Russia prepares bill on foreign asset freeze in reply to sanctions [VKD: TOLD YOU SO! YOU BULLY THE LITTLE GUY AND EVENTUALLY HE WILL SLAP THE CRAP OUT OF YOU]]

Russians are running diplomatic circles around the West

Russia prepares bill on foreign asset freeze in reply to sanctions

 …from  Russia Today

We are not treating Russia like a respected partner…but something else. Have we been faking it all along?

[ Editors Note:  You just can't make this stuff up. Here we have the US government acting in terms of aggressive blustering like the old Soviet Union, and the 21rst century Russian Federation acting as statesmen like our American Founding Fathers who are far rear-view mirror memory for out current leadership.
So far they are making mincemeat of the Obama White house and the Kerry State Dept who will go down in history for the incompetency shown throughout this Ukraine fiasco. And mind you this does not include the criminal conspiracy for aiding and abetting terrorism for which there is no blanket diplomatic immunity.
If Ford Motors and all the other companies get their assets seized via the stupidity of our own government's bully sanctions, I don't think they are going to buy its being the Russian's fault. So far. I read the slate as KIA's by the Russians...zero...Ukrainian casualties inflicted...zero...prisoners take...zero...arbitrary threats against innocent business parties...zero...threats of offensive military action...zero...number of terrorist units captured that were under Russian control...zero. 
Dear US government, You may think we are all stupid morons out here in the hinterland, but I can assure you we are not, and you will be hearing from us...soon.
Dear folks, you know what to do. Just like with the Syrian threatened air attacks get on the phone to the White house and your Congressional Reps and burn them a new one. Be sure to tell them what an embarrassment it is to be represented by the bunch that can't shoot straight...Jim W. Dean ]

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-  First published March 5,  2014  -

McCain meets opposition who made a deal and then had street thugs break it.

A top Russian lawmaker has revealed he is working on a bill that would freeze the assets of European and American companies operating in Russia in reply to Western economic sanctions.
The chairman of the upper house committee for constitutional law, Andrey Klishas, is sure that Russia must have an enough leverage to deal with the threat of sanctions coming from foreign countries.
A team of lawyers are currently preparing a separate federal bill that would allow the Russian president and government to confiscate foreign owned property in Russia, including assets belonging to private companies, the senator told the RIA Novosti news agency.
The bill is in response to the major political crisis in Ukraine and the threat of sanctions against Russia coming from the USA and other countries. “All sanctions must be mutual,” Klishas stated.
The senator added that he had no doubts that such a measure was in line with European standards. “We can recall the example of Cyprus where the confiscation was, in essence, one of the conditions for getting aid from European Union.
Klishas rejects the idea that the measure adds to the tension. “We are only suggesting that instead of threatening each other with sanctions we should together with our partners calmly read the Ukrainian Constitution and understand what has happened in this sovereign country,” the Russian lawmaker said. 
“The main thing we are trying to achieve, whether our European and American partners want it or not, is to make others listen to our legal arguments and adequately react to them,” Klishas said.
The senator added that the Federation Council planned to officially address parliaments of Poland Germany and France (the guarantors of the February 21 agreement between the Ukrainian authorities and the opposition) with a request to give a legal assessment of the Ukrainian events. Similar requests will be made to parliaments of other European countries and the USA.
Earlier this week the White House called off trade talks and suspended all military ties with Russia and President Barak Obama said that if Russia “continued on its current trajectory” the US administration was ready for “a whole series of steps — economic, diplomatic — that will isolate Russia and will have a negative impact on Russia’s economy and its standing in the world.”
Russian officials have already condemned these threats as one-sided and selfish. “Those who try to interpret the situation as a type of aggression and threaten sanctions and boycotts, are the same who consistently have encouraged the sides to refuse dialogue and have ultimately polarised Ukrainian society,” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the UN Human Rights Council on Monday.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said in its official comment that US politicians are losing an accurateperception of real state of affairs in the 21st century. “Moscow has explained to the Americans, repeatedly and demonstrably, why their one-sided punitive measures are not matching the standards of civilized relations between nations. If this fails to take effect, we will have to retaliate, and not necessarily in a mirror way,” the ministry’s spokesman Aleksandr Lukashevich said.

Editing:  Jim W. Dean