In the face of direct accusations that Obama has carried out his public threat to retaliate against Russia for their supposed subversion of the U.S. election, “at a time and place of our own choosing,” Obama has not only been completely silent about the murder of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov in Turkey, but actually took the opportunity to further vilify Russia, just as he brags about his serial extra-judicial killings by drones and other means around the world. “Some of [the retaliation] may be explicit and publicized; some of it may not be,” Obama told NPR last Thursday, in asserting that he has the right to respond militarily to the mere accusation that Russia has conducted cyber warfare.READ MORE