US senator said that the issue of Crimea is in the past

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The representative of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the US Senate, Robert Menendez, representing the Democratic Party, said that the question of returning Crimea to Ukraine is no longer discussed today. RIA News cites a statement by Robert Menendez:

We are no longer talking about the Crimea. I believe that this is already in the past.


US senator said that the issue of Crimea is in the past


The senator noted that during the hearings, to which representatives of the US foreign affairs and military departments (State Department and Pentagon) were invited, the situation regarding Crimea was not discussed. The main topics related to Russia, which were discussed by US senators and officials invited to parliament: “a probable threat” in the Baltic States, the situation in the Donbas and questions about the INF Treaty.

At the same time, Victoria Nuland, who represents the US Department of State, noted the other day that sanctions against Russia will continue until Russia “does not return the Crimea to Ukraine.” According to Nuland, Russia "has already spent billions of rubles on the militarization of the Crimea." At the same time, Ms. Nuland did not dwell on how much the US spends on militarization around the world, ranging from the Romanian Deveselu and ending with the military presence in the South China Sea and on the Japanese Okinawa.
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  1. +10
    8 June 2016 06: 22
    Not really like that
    1. +65
      8 June 2016 06: 24
      God forbid, the sanctions be lifted, our wise businessmen will again rejoice at the possibility of turning Russia into a raw materials appendage of the West.
      1. -27
        8 June 2016 06: 52
        Quote: USSR 1971
        God forbid the sanctions will be lifted

        I didn’t understand something. Do you think that sanctions are normal !?
        1. +40
          8 June 2016 07: 01
          I’ll answer for a stupid sanction.
        2. +42
          8 June 2016 07: 06
          Quote: piratehnik
          Do you think that sanctions are normal !?

          This is wonderful for Russia !!!
          1. +7
            8 June 2016 08: 39
            Yes, Russia without sanctions, as without gingerbread! lol Well, if the Americans are no longer discussing the problem of Crimea, then why should they not recognize its accession to Russia! It would have turned out, albeit crumpled, but still a gesture of goodwill.
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        4. +2
          8 June 2016 07: 37
          If the sanctions of the West are "high" for us, then why did we not impose such on ourselves before their introduction? laughing Our government and officials have always been high and high without sanctions.
        5. +15
          8 June 2016 07: 40
          Quote: piratehnik
          Quote: USSR 1971
          God forbid the sanctions will be lifted

          I didn’t understand something. Do you think that sanctions are normal !?

          Normally, we have been living under sanctions since 1917 and nothing. drinks
        6. +11
          8 June 2016 08: 06
          I didn’t understand something. Do you think that sanctions are normal !?
          For Russia, this is not just normal, it is what we need! A way to put our country on its own feet, and those countries which put forward these sanctions, put in a missionary position, well, or another, even more preferable, put on all fours!
        7. +5
          8 June 2016 08: 15
          This is not normal, but it is a positive fact, contributing to the development of Russia. And they will last another 3-4 years, if not more, which should only strengthen us.
        8. +9
          8 June 2016 08: 34
          Sanctions as a process - this is not normal! But in this situation, it’s good for Russia !!!
        9. +6
          8 June 2016 08: 40
          An intelligent man has long said that sanctions are lifted from Russia only when humanitarian aid is sent
        10. +6
          8 June 2016 08: 43
          Quote: piratehnik
          I didn’t understand something. Do you think that sanctions are normal !?

          This is not normal, but we need to develop our own economy.
          In general, pressure is unacceptable in politics, we must defend our point of view, otherwise they will cease to reckon with us at all. Against this background, the behavior of Gref, Aeroflot and other companies who are afraid to come to Crimea looks defiant
        11. 0
          8 June 2016 08: 49
          For whom? For those who impose them or who impose them?
          WTO rules are based on several fundamental principles. One of them is the principle of most favored nation, prohibiting discrimination of goods from member countries of the organization. In other words, if we agree to import goods and services from country A, we cannot restrict trade in similar goods originating from country B. The second fundamental principle is the refusal to use the so-called quantitative restrictions, such as trade embargoes or customs quotas.
          1. 0
            8 June 2016 10: 23
            Quote: Jamuha
            WTO rules are based on several fundamental principles.

            Where did you get this fantasy from? :)
        12. +10
          8 June 2016 09: 20
          We consider !!!
          Stalin, under the conditions of the "iron curtain" (if this concept can be applied, referring to later times), rebuilt the country twice, after two bloody and destructive wars. And did not bow to anyone, and Roosevelt (in a wheelchair laughing) We stood at attention with Churchill, and nothing ... We were rebuilt, and how, we still "eat through" the "Soviet" stock. And the ruble was GOLD, not like today's pieces of paper!
          So, yes, we DO! wassat
          1. 0
            8 June 2016 17: 05
            Well yes! And the Ford plant in Nizhny Novgorod (Gas) and American engineers at DneproGES. And the chervonets was gold, since the Breton of the Woods dollar did not exist yet. All currencies were provided with gold. And we have almost eaten the Soviet reserve. You have to start a lot over again ...
        13. +2
          8 June 2016 09: 48
          Generally YES .....
        14. +3
          8 June 2016 10: 24
          Quote: piratehnik
          Do you think sanctions are okay !?

          Personally, I think so. hi
        15. +3
          8 June 2016 10: 50
          I didn’t understand something. Do you think that sanctions are normal !?

          Ага.
        16. +4
          8 June 2016 11: 02
          Quote: piratehnik
          I didn’t understand something. Do you think that sanctions are normal !?


          If the West is dissatisfied with Russia and imposed sanctions, then we are on the right track.
        17. +2
          8 June 2016 12: 33
          Quote: piratehnik
          I didn’t understand something. Do you think that sanctions are normal !?

          Normally, not the sanctions themselves, but the reaction to them and the consequences.
      2. +1
        8 June 2016 09: 37
        Victoria Nuland recently noted that sanctions against Russia will continue until Russia “returns Crimea to Ukraine”

        The meow of an old cat. All this gop-stop, I'm sorry, the State Department team will soon merge together with Obamych into oblivion. So we sit and wait quietly hi
      3. +1
        8 June 2016 09: 47
        The main thing for us is to get on the "rails", and then even "wise businessmen" will not want to become an appendage when our own production is established and makes a profit
    2. +52
      8 June 2016 06: 32
      The United States played with Ukraine precisely for the sake of the Crimea and now, having finally realized that they would try to leave with great-power American dignity! Whatever they say publicly, but in the silence of the State Departments there will never be forgiveness for the Ukrainian junta - for this failure, therefore, everyone will be merged gradually into toilet bowl of history! Poroshenko also understands this - he did not do the main thing - he did not bring Crimea on a silver platter! And without it, in every sense of the diamond, Ukraine turns from a precious necklace into a brass chain of flushing mechanism for a .. closet!
      1. +3
        8 June 2016 07: 02
        Personally from me BRAVO.
        1. -5
          8 June 2016 07: 45
          Quote: Pavel Tsybay
          Personally from me BRAVO.

          Quote: Holsten
          Good girl! That would be so long ago!

          may I ask the reason for your delight? What did the senator actually say? News sites cite one single phrase that can be interpreted as you like.
          1. +5
            8 June 2016 12: 34
            Quote: Pinky F.
            may I ask the reason for your delight? What did the senator actually say?

            Yes, bravo not to the senator, but to Zyablintsev! And the senator, no matter how you interpret it, they will still receive. Crimea broke off.
            1. -1
              8 June 2016 16: 59
              Quote: Svetlana
              Yes, bravo not to the senator, but to Zyablintsev!

              yeah yeah
              Quote: Svetlana
              Zyablintsev!

              cretinism. A beautiful look at the geopolitics of a summer cottage. Not surprised by the pluses. Orgasm s.
              1. 0
                9 June 2016 23: 20
                Alexander! hi
                Sorry, I noticed your comment late.

                And from what toilet do you look at geopolitics, let me ask you?

                You look very much like an ordinary troll, of whom there are many divorced in the vastness of the site - this is the impression of your posts! Don’t be offended if I’m wrong ... but with the arguments you always have something wrong going on, and in combination with them the color scheme of your avatar is not very perceived in VO ...!

                P.S. I do not have a summer residence ...
      2. +4
        8 June 2016 07: 44
        Quote: Finches
        The United States played with Ukraine precisely for the sake of the Crimea and now, having finally realized that they would try to leave with great-power American dignity! Whatever they say publicly, but in the silence of the State Departments there will never be forgiveness for the Ukrainian junta - for this failure, therefore, everyone will be merged gradually into toilet bowl of history! Poroshenko also understands this - he did not do the main thing - he did not bring Crimea on a silver platter! And without it, in every sense of the diamond, Ukraine turns from a precious necklace into a brass chain of flushing mechanism for a .. closet!

        good Let's drink for a brass chain for Poroshenko drinks
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        2. +4
          8 June 2016 07: 55
          Quote: sgazeev
          Let's drink for a brass chain for Poroshenko drinks


          Better for the rope with soap. Yes
  2. +1
    8 June 2016 06: 24
    Good girl! That would be so long ago! He earned a gingerbread for the smart words.
    1. -3
      8 June 2016 10: 13
      Yes, 80% write for the sake of pluses))) do they salt them? )))
  3. +13
    8 June 2016 06: 25
    American politicians who are not empowered sometimes express adequate things. smile
    1. mad
      +9
      8 June 2016 06: 29
      Quote: Black
      American politicians who are not empowered sometimes express adequate things. smile

      At the moment they are not in proportion. As soon as it is possible to pinch off the PendoVPK feeder, they immediately vote - everything is gone!
    2. +4
      8 June 2016 06: 51
      Or retired military men, after retiring, straight eyes open and clarity of mind appears.
    3. +1
      8 June 2016 07: 46
      Quote: Black
      American politicians who are not empowered sometimes express adequate things. smile

      He’s also an Americanized Mexican. He hurt him for Texas. lol
    4. 0
      8 June 2016 08: 05
      Quote: Black
      American politicians who are not empowered sometimes express adequate things. smile

      and what did he say? It is worth recalling that this is the same Menendez who advocated the immediate arming of the Khokslov with an American flying gun and met with a military Tatar dwarf. Reforged? Oh well.
  4. +4
    8 June 2016 06: 29
    Crimea-tse Russia!
  5. +4
    8 June 2016 06: 31
    He said one thing ... but had in mind another, the Crimea is not to return the Ukrainians, and the Americans for their base of the Navy.
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  7. +2
    8 June 2016 06: 33
    We are no longer talking about the Crimea. I believe that this is already in the past.
    Well, he will get it from the ropes!
  8. +3
    8 June 2016 06: 33
    Wow! It came to one more! More active, more active guys!
  9. +2
    8 June 2016 06: 35
    In 2014, they immediately made it clear that Crimea again became the territory of Russia.
  10. +8
    8 June 2016 06: 36
    Kremlin agent! Kremlebot! Putin's friend! GRU fighter! FSB officer! Rusnya! Gilyak!
    1. +4
      8 June 2016 07: 04
      You forgot the word padded.
    2. +2
      8 June 2016 07: 25
      In addition, the battle is being drilled!
  11. +3
    8 June 2016 06: 41
    The poor fellows realized that all this hysteria with the Crimea was useless.
  12. +4
    8 June 2016 06: 42
    ... seriously, the question of the return of Crimea to Ukraine is no longer being discussed.

    ... sanctions against Russia will continue until Russia “returns Crimea to Ukraine”

    In other words, 1) all de facto recognized Crimea as Russian; 2) sanctions will never be lifted.
  13. +9
    8 June 2016 06: 42
    In the ass, this Nuland with her cookies, and preferably her cookies in her ass !!!
    1. +4
      8 June 2016 07: 49
      Quote: Centurion 65
      In the ass, this Nuland with her cookies, and preferably her cookies in her ass !!!

      And waffles in your mouth. good
  14. +4
    8 June 2016 06: 43
    Carrot on the drain of Donetsk ... Something like a moo about Gorbachev’s non-proliferation of NATO to the East.
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  15. +7
    8 June 2016 06: 49
    According to Nuland, Russia "has already spent billions of rubles on the militarization of Crimea." If we consider the militarization of the energy bridge, solutions with water in Crimea, the construction of a bridge to Crimea, money for medicine, education, pensions ....., and so on, other .other .... "militarization" The question is why this " militarizatsiyu "are not engaged in're coming out-Bandera government of Ukraine?
  16. +4
    8 June 2016 06: 50
    Well I admitted. Just think, captain "obvious". Crimea is Russia, and there is nothing to discuss here. The reason for the split of the "Western coalition", the litmus test for the attitude to this fact is secondary, and the rocks under your feet are the main thing!
  17. +11
    8 June 2016 06: 52
    And jokingly and seriously !? And what, excuse me, the hell in this USA discuss issues related to the territory of Russia? Neglected the problems of blacks, Indians, the terrible ecological situation in Texas no one cares, the collapse of Deitroit, where the population turned into zombies, is from a Hollywood horror story, probably? They joke and allow themselves to seriously talk only about Russia. And we are still seriously publishing reports on the actions of this panopticon. I have no shares on the New York Stock Exchange. And no problems of the USA, as well as problems with the psyche of the local leaders and legislators, and menopause from the Russian seiners who have settled in the government of this country, DO NOT EXPLAIN! They will climb into the Crimea, and will remain there.
    1. +3
      8 June 2016 07: 37
      Quote: 1536
      Negro problems forgotten

      There are no problems with blacks - the police fire them regularly.
      Quote: 1536
      Indians

      With Indians, too, no problem, destroyed! Miraculously, the survivors are driven into the reservation.
      Quote: 1536
      terrible ecological situation in Texas

      Well, what are you talking about, the wonderful aroma of hydrogen sulfide has not harmed anyone.
      Quote: 1536
      collapse of deutroit

      We will not remember.
  18. +2
    8 June 2016 06: 53

    At the same time, Victoria Nuland, representing the US State Department, recently noted that sanctions against Russia will continue until Russia "returns Crimea to Ukraine." According to Nuland, Russia “has already spent billions of rubles on the militarization of Crimea”
    Until Russia returns Crimea to Ukraine so that the American fleet stands at the piers in Sevastopol. Clever mattresses.
  19. HAM
    +4
    8 June 2016 07: 10
    .... "probable threat" in the Baltic states, the situation in the Donbass and issues under the INF Treaty .....

    Well, you realized that it will merge further ...
    1. -2
      8 June 2016 07: 55
      Quote: HAM
      Well, you realized that it will merge further ...

      and how will the Baltic states "merge"? In ecstasy?
  20. +1
    8 June 2016 07: 30
    You never know what Nuland says, they are already outsiders in politics, Clintonsha will not tolerate her in her ranks.
  21. +1
    8 June 2016 07: 43
    Quote: 30BIS
    According to Nuland, Russia "has already spent billions of rubles on the militarization of Crimea." If we consider the militarization of the energy bridge, solutions with water in Crimea, the construction of a bridge to Crimea, money for medicine, education, pensions ....., and so on, other .other .... "militarization" The question is why this " militarizatsiyu "are not engaged in're coming out-Bandera government of Ukraine?

    And this is their militarization! The absence of water, electricity, food, heat, the presence of drought, hunger, devastation, epidemics, chaos, the absence of medicine, schools, the presence of LGBT people, this is called democracy, prosperity, dynamic development, economic growth and independence.
  22. +3
    8 June 2016 07: 57
    The Americans could not help but calculate the consequences of the loss of Crimea to Ukraine. Rather, on the contrary, they waited and prepared an answer in the form of sanctions and an increase in their presence in the Black Sea. But Anyway, something went wrong, namely, Russia withstood the blow, and even won this round.
  23. +1
    8 June 2016 08: 03
    Merikatosa is a jug with rotten and stinky bucket. laughing What can be expected from them good? That's right - nothing, just disgusting. wassat
  24. +1
    8 June 2016 08: 32
    Already, Americans understand that our Crimea, and the Old Man does not want to understand.
  25. 0
    8 June 2016 08: 39
    Unfortunately, the propaganda of the Aglosakians is bearing fruit ... request plus a snickering party, and even the top believes everything goes the way ... and people because of this start to resent Putin’s policies and the return of the Crimea, the imposition of sanctions ... + the top elite openly posing that they drive cars for tens of millions - when they save nearby last penny. and conversations begin that everything is for the tops ..., cutting back on the Ministry of Health, education, culture .... and again, conversations that there is no need to annoy the Westerners and Aglosakians - we can remain isolated, the money goes only to the Military Commissariat .... a large territory of the Far The east with the bowels was leased to China ... the people will extinguish the structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs ... what Supreme’s analysts are working poorly ... feel

    I personally am for the return of the Crimea; for sanctions, and for sanctions against Russia to continue, but our sanctions in response continued to apply. In the future, I believe this will benefit the homeland. hi
    BUT for this "IT IS NECESSARY TO LIVE HERE AND NOW !!! invest both funds and your life for the good of the Motherland and not enrich yourself during the plague ... Yes
    we survived the 90s (our grandfathers survived the revolution, the Great Patriotic War) and I want to give words for those who are trying to live for the good of the Motherland and those who surround us from the song of I. Talkov:
    "... And the one who stays here,
    Will see the sun rise
    And the New Age is born,
    Whoever stands here will understand
    That he is a man.

    The sun goes west
    And run after him
    Those who do not know
    That everything in this life
    It has a source.

    The sun goes west
    But to be born again,
    Hastens to the East
    To the East.

    "... who conquers himself - he will live after life ..." (I. Talkov Jr.)
    you can cite many more poems and songs of our poets and singers to understand that Russia and the people living in it live according to a different scenario and are not going to live according to the Aglo-Saktsevo scenario. "they" do not understand us, and whoever understands and wants to direct his life activity for the good of our Motherland can be safely considered "Russian"
    My personal opinion. hi
  26. +2
    8 June 2016 08: 49
    rather, they will receive ears from the dead Poroshenko. than the Crimea. (c) and they understood it.
  27. 0
    8 June 2016 08: 53
    Hilary Dianovna Clinton laughing
  28. +3
    8 June 2016 08: 58
    but in general it Ukraine can get Russian lands in a simple way - reunion with the Russian Federation ..
  29. 0
    8 June 2016 09: 52
    We look forward to a referendum in small Britain, and then in Scotland, there will be a third precedent (Kosovo, Crimea, Scotland) for the reorganization of territories by the will of the people. Kosovo is somewhat drawn out, like a project of amers.
  30. 0
    8 June 2016 09: 53
    Our Crimea and all this is already understood. And the sanctions, well zapadlo glanyukam admit that they screwed up.
  31. +2
    8 June 2016 10: 02
    Quote: afrikanez
    Well, if the Americans no longer discuss the problem of Crimea,

    Such statements and their replication by our mass media are very unnerving. Believe it is not ordinary senators, not former ministers, chancellors, not the parliaments of Venice and Bavaria that determine the policy of states. Not statements by "authoritative" writers, correspondents, advisers, etc. do not affect the OFFICIAL COURSE STATE. And every day we have news whether a representative of an opposition party in a certain parliament has spoken out, or a regional parliament or a former activist has expressed HIS opinion. THIS IS WHEN THE OFFICIAL POSITION OF THE MFA (State Department, or otherwise called) or the HEAD of another state will change- then notify us, and so only the shaking of the air! tongue hi
  32. +3
    8 June 2016 10: 07
    All this is a disguise, when it will be profitable for them, they will again raise the fuss around the Crimea and begin to water Russia with water without batting, it’s like a cycle of water in nature ...
  33. +2
    8 June 2016 10: 37
    They do not need us strong and whole, they need us weak and fragmented. Therefore, the American senator said nothing new in essence. There they will not "remember", and elsewhere they will voice the exact opposite. So - words, only words. And Nuland - let him rummage in his wallet, and not look at strangers. What we spend money on is our sovereign business.
  34. 0
    8 June 2016 10: 44
    Even having guessed, the USA assure that it is the neighbor.
  35. +4
    8 June 2016 10: 58
    For Russia, the longer the sanctions, the better we live!
  36. 0
    8 June 2016 11: 49
    Quote: USSR 1971
    God forbid, the sanctions be lifted, our wise businessmen will again rejoice at the possibility of turning Russia into a raw materials appendage of the West.

    Not all. Not everyone. For reasonable businessmen THIS is a chance.
  37. +5
    8 June 2016 12: 28
    Quote: piratehnik
    Quote: USSR 1971
    God forbid the sanctions will be lifted

    I didn’t understand something. Do you think that sanctions are normal !?

    And what do sanctions prevent you personally from living? Have you taken property abroad? Or have they been blacklisted and not allowed in the USA?
    Ordinary people do not care about sanctions. The crisis in the country is not from them, but from the liberal economic policy of the government, from the fact that they do not want to put industry on its feet, and the people have long been waiting for it to be possible to work at their native enterprises again, and not by managers involved in bringing this to one another .
    Or is this Menendez the one that our Brother re-educated?
    1. 0
      8 June 2016 12: 31
      Quote: Svetlana
      The crisis in the country is not from them, but from the liberal economic policy of the government,

      All economists think differently, but oh well.
      Quote: Svetlana
      from the fact that industry doesn’t want to put on its feet,

      Don’t say, these creatures rolled out MC 21 today. What are they doing? crying
      Quote: Svetlana
      and the people have been waiting for a long time when it will be possible to work again at their native enterprises, and not by managers involved in bringing this to one another.

      One problem is to drive people out of offices and drive them to the factory.
  38. +1
    9 June 2016 08: 44
    Even Senator Menendez already realized that there was no need to break a spear regarding Crimea, and that it was necessary to deal with world problems. But alas, people like Nulland either do not get it, or she just pretends to be a fool, counting our billions, would count her own how much striped them all over the world have spent precisely on the military, brainless chicken. You can’t name her anymore.

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