Posted on 07/21/2014 2:15:47 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
No amount of Kremlin propaganda can hide the fact that Putin has poured gasoline on a raging fire in Eastern Ukraine. Once seen as a smooth and effective administrator, Putin now stands exposed as a clueless bungler.
And that brings us to Obama’s so-called “reset” policy with Russia, perhaps the single most odious and disastrous foreign policy since Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler. Obama’s weakness and appeasement on Russia encouraged Putin to believe he was nearly omnipotent in post-Soviet space and could do as he pleased. Last week, it cost nearly 300 innocent lives.
Yet Obama didn’t apologize or even acknowledge the fault in his prior policies, nor did he take a single step towards reversing them as Russians scurried to bury the evidence of their heinous crime – scurried just as they did when they murdered thousands of Polish officers in the Katyn forest during World War II and tried to blame it on Hitler.
In a criminally negligent manner that has now cost at least one American life, Obama ignored clear, loud, repeated warnings from NATO that Russia was providing SAM technology to Ukrainian rebels, who now can only be called terrorists, and teaching them how to use it. He responded only with feeble economic sanctions at which Putin merely laughed. One of the world’s impost important aviation highways is in the skies above Ukraine, and now the world can’t use it. His presidency ran aground last week, all of his credibility vanished and he stood before the world looking like the unqualified, helpless, clueless oaf that many warned about before he was first elected.
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I see that Putin has won every match he's set his wits to. He's evil, but terribly effective.
Now’s the time to get all worked-up over Putin — so we won’t pay so much attention to everything the Obama regime is doing to weaken resistance to Islam and to spread socialism, abortion, and homosexuality throughout the globe.
Are the conservative press and bloggers all lurking here? Remember I referenced the Katyn massacre to you a day or so ago?
I just can’t get worked up about this issue.
If 300 Americans had died on an American plane over Ukraine, the families would be suing the airline for gross negligence.
Because flying a plane over a war zone is gross negligence.
I wish Putin would stop trying to destabilize and seize parts of Ukraine.
But I am not willing to see one drop of American blood or one penny of American cash expended to stop him.
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