[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15476-15477]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     RUSSIAN BEAR IS ROARING AGAIN

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, while the eyes of the world are on 
ISIS, the Russian bear has quietly come out of hibernation. Putin is 
back after a brief hiatus, seeking to devour his neighbors and reclaim 
his kingdom while once again sending covert henchmen into eastern 
Ukraine. The Napoleon of Siberia is systematically trying to 
reestablish imperial Russia with him as the czar.
  According to U.S. General Phillip Breedlove, recently, ``new Russian 
tanks, Russian artillery, Russian air defense systems, and Russian 
combat troops have entered eastern Ukraine.'' News reports indicate 
five of the trucks were towing 120-millimeter howitzer artillery 
pieces, and another five were towing partly covered multilaunch rocket 
systems.
  This sounds like an aggression to me.
  Of course, the Kremlin lies and denies it all. And why is this 
aggression

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continuing? Because, on the world stage, America looks weak and 
leaderless. Reset buttons and red lines don't mean anything to Putin. 
Our hollow objections to Russia are meaningless. The Russian bear needs 
to stop its cold war II-type aggression and return back to the cave.
  Mr. Speaker, what is America's plan?
  And that is just the way it is.

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