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Harvard Historian: Obama Is Being Check-Mated by Vladimir Putin (Video)
Gateway Pundit ^ | 10/18/15 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 10/19/2015 7:14:04 AM PDT by Enlightened1

Niall Ferguson, author, historian and Harvard professor, weighed in on Barack Obama’s disastrous foreign policy today on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo.

Maria this is going horribly wrong. He’s really created an explosion of sectarian conflict right across the region. And I think now he’s being check-mated by Vladimir Putin the Russian president who you said a moment ago has taken in the initiative. It’s really the first time since the early seventies that the Russians have been in a position to play the part of power broker in the Middle East.

Ferguson also pointed out to Bartiromo that Middle East violence has increased by a factor of six since 2010. The more Obama has played the ‘kicked the can down the road’ the more the violence has escalated.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: harvard; historian; niallferguson; obama; obamaputin; putin; russiasyria
niall ferguson
1 posted on 10/19/2015 7:14:04 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

Here is the video,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWRFyfhuiK8


2 posted on 10/19/2015 7:14:29 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

We all realize, of course that Dorkbama the Muslim would lose at tic-tac-toe.

Oops, that’s we conservatives all realize this.


3 posted on 10/19/2015 7:20:14 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Da Coyote

I still wonder if Obama and Putin are working on this together. If so, we know which ‘partner’ Obama is and if not Putin is doing more than checkmating. He has taken the board, all the pieces and has Obama in a chokehold.


4 posted on 10/19/2015 7:25:04 AM PDT by taterjay
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To: Enlightened1


5 posted on 10/19/2015 7:28:33 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: Enlightened1

Well goodness gracious, an ivy leaguer gets it years after the fact.

And if he got it before, why then didst not Monsieur espouse this plea as an omen in years of yonder past?

Because ‘Hahvad’ is no place for critiquing the left. Watch your back Monsieur.


6 posted on 10/19/2015 7:40:48 AM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Enlightened1
If President Ovomit can be checkmated by Raoul Castro, Jamaicans, some Rapping squatters on Chicago's south side, he can be checkmated by just about any living creature...what a fool.
7 posted on 10/19/2015 7:46:00 AM PDT by Netz
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To: taterjay

“I still wonder if Obama and Putin are working on this together.”

Same here.

It’s starting to look a little too convenient.

There are millions of muslims pouring into Europe.

The muslims in Israel then start a campaign of stabbing Jews which is starting to spread to other countries.

Soon this stabbing of Jews and any non muslim will expand to the European countries which just let in millions of muslims.

The European govts which invited the head choppers in will start to fall as the people demand action.

The new govts will then turn to Russia for support not the US because it’s the Russians which are fighting against the head choppers and the US is supporting them.

Much too convenient to be by accident IMO.


8 posted on 10/19/2015 7:50:12 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: Iron Munro
A tip 'o the derby to FReeper darkwing104 for this masterpiece:


9 posted on 10/19/2015 8:20:19 AM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate. [URL=http://media.photobucket.com/user/currencyjunkie/me)
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To: Da Coyote

You realize, of course, that Vladimir Putin is merely protecting the Current Occupant from himself.

Putin has been been running himself ragged just trying to put the genie back in the bottle, and so far, his best efforts have been to dismantle the disastrous effects of the Current Occupant attempting to arm ISIS against the Assad regime.

Syria is a very truncated country right now. As of today, the Islamic State is a reality. Whether that remains a reality is much more up to Putin than the Current Occupant.


10 posted on 10/19/2015 8:30:52 AM PDT by alloysteel (Do not argue with trolls. That means they win.)
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To: Enlightened1

We sure are lucky to have Obama. He’s the smartest person ever (just ask him, or ask any of his supporters), and if he’s doing this badly with domestic and foreign affairs, imagine how disastrous it would have been if we had someone else in office.


11 posted on 10/19/2015 9:30:54 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Enlightened1

It’s worse than we’ve been told: Obama doesn’t know how to play checkers yet...


12 posted on 10/19/2015 9:47:53 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats want gun legislation? Fine. Pass a Bill outlawing 'gun free' zones.)
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To: Enlightened1

obama is simply a muslim going about supporting and furthering the caliphate....
at the expense of usa’s national security...
nothing more to it
he is our benedict arnold


13 posted on 10/19/2015 10:00:05 AM PDT by zzwhale
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To: Enlightened1

America’s enemies have rarely had it better.


14 posted on 10/19/2015 10:47:55 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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To: Iron Munro

LMAO!!!!


15 posted on 10/19/2015 10:48:44 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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To: Hostage
I am amazed he is still at Harvard. He has been critical of Bambi for years. Pretty good historian. Interesting book on 20th century history.
16 posted on 10/19/2015 11:56:35 AM PDT by prof.h.mandingo (Buck v. Bell (1927) An idea whose time has come (for extreme liberalism))
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