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These are no different than a driver adjusting her position to avoid a temporary lane incursion by an adjacent driver, the US response is pure theater and needlessly creates an exaggerated sense of danger. – Robert Hopkins	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Whether you're using fishing boats or civilian drones, it doesn't look as though this is official policy. It doesn't look like direct military harassment in the way that the incursion of a warplane does. And so it's a deniable provocation. – Isabel Hilton	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It happened again. We all remember the ‘minor incursion’ greenlighting that the White House had to immediately try to clean up before Putin decided to invade Ukraine in thefirst place. – Lee Zeldin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion, and then we end up having a fight about what to do and not do, et cetera, but if they actually do what they’re capable of doing with the forces amassed on the border, it is going to be a disaster for Russia if they further invade Ukraine. – Joe Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's one thing if it's a minor incursion and then we end up having a fight about what to do and not do, et cetera. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
No incursion into Ukraine is acceptable. What should we be doing about it right now? Well, first we ought to be sending anti-tank weapons to the Ukrainians, helping them learn how to use them, and ground-to-air missiles to go after the helicopters that might be a part, obviously of any Russian incursion, as well as being ready to levy a level of sanctions the Russians have never experienced before. – Bret Baier	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's one thing if it's a minor incursion and we end up having to fight about what to do and not do, but if they actually do what they're capable of doing with the forces amassed on the border, it is going to be a disaster for Russia if they further invade Ukraine. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's one thing if it's a minor incursion and we end up having to fight about what to do and not do, et cetera. – President Biden	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Speaking of minor and full incursions or full invasion, you can not be half-aggressive. You're either aggressive or you're not aggressive, we should not give Putin the slightest chance to play with quasi-aggression or small incursion operations. This aggression was there since 2014. This is the fact. – Dmytro Kuleba	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion and we end up having to fight about what to do and not to do. – Russian President Putin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It depends on what it does, it's one thing if it's a minor incursion and then we have to end up having to fight about what to do and not do, etcetera. – Joe Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Whatever we do will be done as a part of an international community. The best case though is that we won't see an incursion by the Soviet Union into the Ukraine. – Lloyd Austin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Turkish incursion into northeast Syria is a tragedy, it was long standing Jim Jeffrey government policy in two Administrations to keep that from happening and Hardened ISIS prisoners were clearly not successful, iSIS is pitching this as a victory for them. – Jim Jeffrey	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We do not want a foreign government [ to ] invade our country, if we need an incursion, it has to be by Venezuelan soldiers who really want to free Venezuela. – Hidalgo Azuaje	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The line they are trying to draw now would prohibit any kind of incursion of Aleppo, it will not allow Aleppo to fall, if Assad does not adhere to this, there will clearly be repercussions, and one of them may be the total destruction of the ceasefire and then go back to war. I don't think Russia wants that. – State John Kerry	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We must not forget that this was an incursion into the sovereign territory of Ukraine, Russia annexed Crimea illegally in international law, of course, reforms and steps are needed on the Ukrainian side as well. But we should never equate the two. Russia is the aggressor in this conflict. – British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's a tough fight. We said a year ago that we expected this fight to expel ISIL from Iraq to be a fight that takes years, with an 's'. Years, iSIL has lost well over 25 percent of the territory that they held at the height of their incursion into Iraq. We have destroyed thousands of pieces of equipment. – Warren Strobel	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
For God's sake, can't we help these people defend themselves? This is not an incursion. This is an invasion. – John McCain	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

These are no different than a driver adjusting her position to avoid a temporary lane incursion by an adjacent driver, the US response is pure theater and needlessly creates an exaggerated sense of danger.

– Robert Hopkins

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Whether you're using fishing boats or civilian drones, it doesn't look as though this is official policy. It doesn't look like direct military harassment in the way that the incursion of a warplane does. And so it's a deniable provocation.

– Isabel Hilton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It happened again. We all remember the ‘minor incursion’ greenlighting that the White House had to immediately try to clean up before Putin decided to invade Ukraine in thefirst place.

– Lee Zeldin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion, and then we end up having a fight about what to do and not do, et cetera, but if they actually do what they’re capable of doing with the forces amassed on the border, it is going to be a disaster for Russia if they further invade Ukraine.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's one thing if it's a minor incursion and then we end up having a fight about what to do and not do, et cetera.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

No incursion into Ukraine is acceptable. What should we be doing about it right now? Well, first we ought to be sending anti-tank weapons to the Ukrainians, helping them learn how to use them, and ground-to-air missiles to go after the helicopters that might be a part, obviously of any Russian incursion, as well as being ready to levy a level of sanctions the Russians have never experienced before.

– Bret Baier

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's one thing if it's a minor incursion and we end up having to fight about what to do and not do, but if they actually do what they're capable of doing with the forces amassed on the border, it is going to be a disaster for Russia if they further invade Ukraine.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's one thing if it's a minor incursion and we end up having to fight about what to do and not do, et cetera.

– President Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Speaking of minor and full incursions or full invasion, you can not be half-aggressive. You're either aggressive or you're not aggressive, we should not give Putin the slightest chance to play with quasi-aggression or small incursion operations. This aggression was there since 2014. This is the fact.

– Dmytro Kuleba

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion and we end up having to fight about what to do and not to do.

– Russian President Putin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It depends on what it does, it's one thing if it's a minor incursion and then we have to end up having to fight about what to do and not do, etcetera.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Whatever we do will be done as a part of an international community. The best case though is that we won't see an incursion by the Soviet Union into the Ukraine.

– Lloyd Austin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Turkish incursion into northeast Syria is a tragedy, it was long standing Jim Jeffrey government policy in two Administrations to keep that from happening and Hardened ISIS prisoners were clearly not successful, iSIS is pitching this as a victory for them.

– Jim Jeffrey

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We do not want a foreign government [ to ] invade our country, if we need an incursion, it has to be by Venezuelan soldiers who really want to free Venezuela.

– Hidalgo Azuaje

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The line they are trying to draw now would prohibit any kind of incursion of Aleppo, it will not allow Aleppo to fall, if Assad does not adhere to this, there will clearly be repercussions, and one of them may be the total destruction of the ceasefire and then go back to war. I don't think Russia wants that.

– State John Kerry

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We must not forget that this was an incursion into the sovereign territory of Ukraine, Russia annexed Crimea illegally in international law, of course, reforms and steps are needed on the Ukrainian side as well. But we should never equate the two. Russia is the aggressor in this conflict.

– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's a tough fight. We said a year ago that we expected this fight to expel ISIL from Iraq to be a fight that takes years, with an 's'. Years, iSIL has lost well over 25 percent of the territory that they held at the height of their incursion into Iraq. We have destroyed thousands of pieces of equipment.

– Warren Strobel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For God's sake, can't we help these people defend themselves? This is not an incursion. This is an invasion.

– John McCain

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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