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Literally makes you want to immediately discharge whatever it is that you were consuming at that moment. but you would be forgiven if you would have that particular reaction yesterday morning when secretary of state john kerry said this on cbs about russian president vladimir putins decision to invade ukraine. watch. >> well, its an incredible act of aggression. it is really a stunning, willful choice by president putin to invade another country. you just dont in the 21st century behave in 19th ...

The american people based on a pretext, based on evidence that in many cases was known inside the government to be false. that documentary, hubris, answered the question of how, how that war was sold to the american people. but there remains the question of why. what was behind that public case for war? if what they were telling us was false, why did they really think we needed to go to war? if the case made to the public was a false case, what was the true case? why did we really do it? for muc...

Master of sending messages, isnt he? look at the fact that he was conducting these huge military exercises on the border right about the time that the whole world got panicked about the situation in crimea and then on monday, there he is suddenly pictures of him in the control room at one of those exercises. this missile launch has been long planned. u.s. officials were warned about it before the ukraine crisis even started and russia does routinely, regularly test missiles. it was a long way aw...

Selling the iraq war. it was the most watched documentary on msnbc in the last decade. that documentary was based on their reporting and told the story of how the bush administration sold the war to the american people based on a pretext, based on evidence that in many cases was known inside the government to be false. that documentary, hubris, answered the question of how, how that war was sold to the american people. but there remains the question of why. what was behind that public case for w...

Happening on the ground. >> i dont think thats fooling anybody. i think everybody recognizes that although russia has legitimate interests in what happens in a neighboring state, that does not give it the right to use force as a means of exerting influence inside of that state. >> we condemn the russian federations act of aggression. it is clear that russia has been working hard to create a pretext for being able to invade further. russia has talked about russian-speaking minority citizens who a...

Full integration right now, the russian economy in europe, some bold and courageous decisions by countries there could send that economy into an absolute freefall and theyre not in a really strong position to begin with. the strength of their economy has been always dependent on russian oil. europe is starting to diversify. theyre only forecasting about 1% growth next year. they are not really in a position to withstand a big economic hit. and my hope is that our european allies will stand with ...

>> absolutely true and something on which the united states has absolutely no leg to stand on after we did exactly that same thing famously and on a much larger scale. russia has in fact invaded a part of ukraine on the completely trumped-up false pretext that theres some threat to russian speakers there, and russia is only protecting them. its total bull pucky, total pretext. but there is an awkwardness about the united states government trying to lead a response to international outrage to tha...

Who arrived in kiev also dispute putins claim when he was asked about it by my colleague, andrea mitchell. >> its clear that russia has been working hard to create a pretext for being able to invade further. russia has talked about russian-speaking minority citizens under siege. theyre not. >> kerry talked about a meeting with the new government and protest leaders including former pro boxer klitchko. the package includes a $1 billion in loan guarantees. still, the question is how to interpret p...

Thing famously and on a much larger scale. russia has in fact invaded a part of ukraine on the completely trumped-up false pretext that theres some threat to russian speakers there, and russia is only protecting them. its total bull pucky, total pretext. but there is an awkwardness about the united states government trying to lead a response of international outrage to that violation when were only a couple of years out from our own near decade of war in iraq, which was a war that was also launc...

Bold and courageous decisions by countries there could send that economy into an absolute freefall and theyre not in a really strong position to begin with. the strength of their economy has been always dependent on russian oil. europe is starting to diversify. theyre only forecasting about 1% growth next year. they are not really in a position to withstand a big economic hit. and my hope is that our european allies will stand with us because we can deliver it to them and do it pretty quickly. >...