RUSIA tidak MENYERANG Barat, hanya MEMPERTAHANKAN Kepentingannya - PUTIN . . .

Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin bercakap pada sidang akhbar tahunannya di Moscow pada 18 Disember 2014 (Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual press conference in Moscow on December 18, 2014 (AFP Photo/Kirill Kudryavtsev)

iLMu2lautan – Rusia melindungi kepentingan negara, tetapi ia tidak menyerang mana-mana negara Barat dari segi politik, kata Presiden Rusia Vladimir Puitn.

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Putin berkata bahawa sumbangan Rusia hanya dibuat terhadap tempoh semasa ketegangan "adalah satu pendirian yang semakin kukuh dalam mempertahankan kepentingan negara."

"Kami tidak menyerang sesiapa sahaja dalam erti kata politik," katanya. "Kami hanya mempertahankan kepentingan kami . . . ini yang tidak berpuas hati rakan-rakan Barat, terutamanya Amerika, datang dari ini."

Tindakan Rusia, yang digambarkan sebagai agresif di Barat, adalah tindak balas kepada apa yang negara-negara Barat lakukan, kata Putin.

"Rusia pada tahun 1990-an berhenti sepenuhnya penerbangan pengebom jarak jauh bahawa Kesatuan Soviet yang digunakan untuk membawa keluar," katanya. "Tetapi pengebom strategik Amerika dengan senjata nuklear masih terbang. 

Mengapa? 

Terhadap siapa? 

Siapa yang diancam siapa? "

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RUSSIA Not ATTACKING West, JUST Defending ITS 

Interests - PUTIN . . .

Russia is protecting its national interests, but it not attacking any western nations politically, Russian President Vladimir Puitn said.

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Putin said that the only contribution Russia made toward the current period of tension “is an increasingly strong stance in defending its national interests.”

“We are not attacking anyone in the political sense,” he said. “We are only defending our interests… The displeasure of our Western partners, particularly the Americans, comes from that.”

Russia’s actions, described as aggressive in the West, are a response to what Western nations are doing, Putin said.

“Russia in the 1990s completely stopped the long-range bomber flights that the Soviet Union used to carry out,” he said. “But American strategic bombers with nuclear weapons still flew. Why? Against whom? Who was being threatened?”

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Komen Putin datang sebagai tindak balas kpd soalan veteran editor berita DUNIA BBC, John Simpson, yang bertanya sama ada Putin krisis semasa dalam hubungan antara Rusia dan Barat adalah hasil daripada pencerobohan Rusia. 

Simpson memetik peningkatan rondaan Tentera Udara Rusia di ruang udara antarabangsa sebagai contoh pencerobohan itu. Pertukaran ini berlaku di Putin Q & A tahunan sesi di Moscow.

Putin’s comments came in response to a question from the BBC’s veteran world news editor, John Simpson, who asked Putin whether the current crisis in relations between Russia and the West was a result of Russia’s aggression. Simpson cited the increased patrols of the Russian Air Force in international airspace as an example of such aggression. The exchange happened at Putin’s annual Q&A session in Moscow.

Amerika telah lama mengabaikan kepentingan Rusia walaupun mengadu Moscow kira-kira banyak kali ini, kata Presiden.

"Ambil sistem peluru berpandu anti-balistik. Yang secara unilateral menarik diri dpd Perjanjian ABM, adalah satu asas yang penting dalam sistem keselamatan antarabangsa? 

Adakah bahawa kami? 

Tidakkah, Amerika Syarikat yang melakukannya. 

Mereka secara unilateral menarik diri dan mewujudkan ancaman kepada kita, "kata Putin.

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Tidak seperti Amerika Syarikat, yg mempunyai berpuluh-puluh pangkalan tentera di seluruh DUNIA, Rusia hanya ada 2, kata Putin. 

Dan orang-orang berada di tempat-tempat di mana keselamatan negara Rusia secara langsung mengancam, di Kyrgyzstan dan Tajikistan, kata Presiden.

The US has been ignoring Russian interests despite Moscow’s complaining about this many times, the president said.

“Take the anti-ballistic missile system. Who unilaterally withdrew from the ABM Treaty, which was a cornerstone of the international security system? Was that us? No, the US did it. They unilaterally withdrew and are creating threats toward us,” Putin said.

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Unlike the United States, which has dozens of military bases around the world, Russia has only two, Putin said. And those are in places where Russia’s national security is directly threatened, in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the president said.

Tentera Amerika Syarikat berdiri di sebelah Patriot permukaan-ke-udara bateri peluru berpandu di pangkalan tentera di Morag, Poland (U.S. soldiers stand next to a Patriot surface-to-air missile battery at an army base in Morag, Poland (Reuters)

"Dan kami orang2 sekarang bahawa kita mempunyai dasar yg agresif? Adakah anda mempunyai akal? 

Adakah kita meletakkan tentera kita di sempadan Amerika Syarikat? 

Siapakah yang meletakkan tentera NATO, infrastruktur tentera hampir kepada kita? 

Adakah sesiapa yg mendengar kepada kita, bercakap kepada kita tentang hal itu? 

Tidak, apa-apa. Sentiasa ada jawapan yang sama: ia bukan perniagaan anda, "kata Putin.

Putin berkata, Rusia hanya mahu dianggap sebagai rakan kongsi yang setaraf oleh Barat.

"Kami mahu membangunkan hubungan normal pada keselamatan, anti keganasan. Kami akan bekerjasama dalam pengawalan senjata nuklear. 

Kami akan bekerja pada ancaman seperti dadah, jenayah terancang, penyakit berjangkit berbahaya, termasuk Ebola. 

Kami akan melakukan semua bersama-sama seperti yang kita akan bekerjasama dalam ekonomi, selagi rakan kongsi kami mahu, "kata Putin.

“And you are telling now that we have an aggressive policy? Do you have common sense? Do we place our troops at US borders? Who is placing NATO troops, military infrastructure closer to us? Does anyone listen to us, talk to us about it? No, nothing. There is always the same response: it’s not your business,” Putin said.

Putin added that Russia simply wants to be treated as equal partners by the West.

“We want to develop normal relations on security, counterterrorism. We will work together on nuclear non-proliferation. We will work on threats like illegal drugs, organized crime, dangerous infectious diseases, including Ebola. We will do it all together as we will cooperate on the economy, as long as our partners want that,” Putin said.

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PSAKI misSpoke: OBAMA Belum LAGI Menandatangani Rang UNDANG-undang BARU Anti-RUSIA . . .

iLMu2lautan – Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama belum lagi menanda-tangani rang undang-undang penjelasan cara utk lebih sekatan ekonomi terhadap Rusia. Jabatan Negara Amerika Syarikat mengesahkan Jen Psaki ‘misspoke’ semasa taklimat media.

Rang undang2 itu dijangka ditandatangani "pd akhir minggu ini," menurut kenya-taan Setiausaha Akhbar di White House Josh Earnest Selasa. Jurucakap Jabatan Negara Amerika Syarikat Jen Psaki mendakwa pd hari Rabu bahwa rang undang-undang itu telah ditandatangani.

"Beliau menandatanganinya semalam," Psaki dinyatakan semasa taklimat itu, mengganggu Gayane Chichakyan RT ini yang bertanya soalan mengenai rang undang-undang digelar Ukraine Kebebasan Akta Sokongan 2014.

Walau bagaimanapun, menurut kepada wakil-wakil White House "Presiden masih belum menandatangani undang-undang ini."

"Jen [Psaki] sebenarnya ‘misspoke’ semasa taklimat hari ini, jadi kami akan membetulkan ini dengan nota kaki pada transkrip dalam laman web dalam beberapa minit," jabatan ini officialconfirmed untuk Sputnik News Agency.

PSAKI Misspoke: OBAMA Not YET Signed NEW 

Anti-Russian BILL . . .

US President Barack Obama has not yet signed a bill clearing the way for more economic sanctions against Russia. The US State Department confirmed Jen Psaki misspoke during the press briefing.

The bill was expected to be signed “by the end of the week,”according to White House press secretary Josh Earnest’s statement in Tuesday. US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki claimed on Wednesday that the bill was already signed.

“He signed it yesterday,” Psaki stated during the briefing, interrupting RT’s Gayane Chichakyan who was asking a question about the bill dubbed Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014.

However, according to representatives of the White House “the President has not yet signed this legislation.”

"Jen [Psaki] actually misspoke during today’s briefing, so we will be correcting this with a footnote on the transcript found on the website in a few minutes," the department's official confirmed to Sputnik News Agency.

Rang undang-undang itu akan menyaksikan kira-kira $ 350 juta pada bantuan yang diberikan kepada Ukraine.

Selain bantuan tentera dan bukan tentera ke Ukraine, rang undang2 tambahan membolehkan pengenaan lagi sekatan bersyarat pada sektor pertahanan Rusia, seperti hukuman ke atas milik negara senjata Rosoboronexport peniaga dan orang perseorangan yang berkaitan.

Rang undang2 jg membayangkan $20 juta dana tahunan bagi menyokong "demo-krasi Rusia & masyarakat sivil organisasi" termasuk melalui peningkatan "Amerika Syarikat aktiviti penyiaran kerajaan disokong." 

Satu lagi keutamaan berkembang penyiaran di negara2 bekas Kesatuan Soviet, yang akan kos lain $ 10 juta setahun.

Walaupun rang undang-undang itu tidak membuat sekatan wajib sepenuhnya, ia membolehkan Obama untuk memutuskan bahagian mana rang undang-undang untuk menguatkuasakan.

'Pendekatan ketinggalan zaman'

Berita itu datang hari yg sama Presiden Obama membuat pengumuman yg ber-sejarah mengenai "perubahan dasar" ke arah Havana & Amerika Syarikat meran-cang untuk mengangkat jualan & eksport embargo dan mewujudkan hubungan diplomatik dengan Cuba.

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Dekad "pendekatan ketinggalan zaman" membawa sebarang perubahan rejim di Cuba yang "masih ditadbir oleh Castros dan parti Komunis," Presiden Amerika Syarikat mengumumkan.

"Tiada negara lain menyertai kami dalam sekatan ini. Dan ia mempunyai kesan yang kecil, "kata Obama. "Kami akan berakhir pendekatan ketinggalan zaman yang selama beberapa dekad telah gagal untuk memajukan kepentingan kami."

Bagi Rusia, ahli politik Amerika Syarikat termasuk Obama juga telah mengakui bahawa sekatan yang dikenakan setakat ini tidak adalah seperti yang berkesan seperti g diharapkan. 

Walau bagaimanapun, "setiap negara adalah sangat berbeza," Psaki berkata, nam-paknya membayangkan bahwa desakan utk "pengasingan" Rusia mungkin masih entah bagaimana mempengaruhi polisi dan proses dalam negara.

OP-EDGE: matlamat Sekatan 'adalah perubahan rejim, tidak kira Cuba atau RusiaOP-EDGE: Sanctions’ goal is regime change, no matter Cuba or Russia

Sementara itu, Kementerian Luar Rusia berharap bahawa Washington mungkin akhirnya menyedari ketidakberkesanan tekanan sekatan di negara-negara lain, kerana ia akhirnya lakukan dalam hal Cuba.

"Ia menunjukkan bahawa Presiden Amerika Syarikat yg telah mengiktirafkan yg sia-sia tahun mencuba untuk 'mengasingkan' Cuba," kata Kementerian Luar Rusia. "Kami tidak boleh tetapi berharap bahawa Washington akan cepat menyedari yang sia-sia sekatan tekanan yang sama terhadap negara lain."

The bill will see some $350 million in assistance provided to Ukraine.

Besides the military and non-military assistance to Ukraine, the bill additionally allows further imposition of conditional sanctions on the Russian defense sector, such as penalties on state-owned arms dealer Rosoboronexport as well as connected individuals.

The bill also envisions $20 million in annual funding in order to support “Russian democracy and civil society organizations” including through increasing “US government-supported broadcasting activities.”Another priority is expanded broad-casting in countries of the former Soviet Union, which will cost another $10 million per year.

Although the bill does not make sanctions fully obligatory, it allows Obama to decide which parts of the bill to enforce.

‘Outdated approach’

The news comes the very same day President Obama made a historic announcement about a “policy change” towards Havana and US plans to lift the sales and exports embargo and establish diplomatic relations with Cuba.

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The decades of “outdated approach” brought no regime change in Cuba which is “still governed by the Castros and the Communist party,” the US president announced.

“No other nation joins us in these sanctions. And it has had little effect,” Obama said. “We will end an outdated approach that for decades has failed to advance our interest.”

In the case of Russia, US politicians including Obama have also admitted that restrictions imposed so far were not as effective as expected. However, “every country is hugely different,” Psaki said, apparently implying that the push for “isolation” of Russia may still somehow influence policies and processes within the country.

OP-EDGE: Sanctions’ goal is regime change, no matter Cuba or Russia

The Russian Foreign Ministry meanwhile expressed hope that Washington might finally realize the ineffectiveness of sanction pressure on other countries, as it eventually did in the case of Cuba.

“It is indicative that the US president has recognized the futility of years of trying to ‘isolate’ Cuba," the Russian Foreign Ministry said. "We cannot but hope that Washington will be quick to realize the futility of similar sanctions pressure on other countries.”

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