Posted on 03/04/2014 6:34:50 AM PST by bestintxas
I think conservatives need to take a breath when it comes to the lionization of Vladimir Putin. If your objective is to show how hapless Barack Obama is by contrasting him with his geopolitical adversary, then yeah, Putin is clearly 12 steps ahead of Obama and quick to seize on the opportunities provided by Obama’s frequent strategic mistakes and poor instincts.
But let’s not lose sight of this: Putin is a perpetrator of global mayhem. However much we enjoy demonstrating Obama’s weakness for partisan purposes, the fact remains that it’s not in the interests of the United States (or of free nations anywhere) if Putin keeps using Russia’s military muscle to expand its influence as he is doing right now in Ukraine. You can respect your adversary, but can we give it a rest with the Putin-now-that-guy’s-a-president-we-should-have-him-here crap?
A better perspective on Putin comes from Congressman Mike Rogers, who chairs the House Intelligence Committee and delved into some actual steps the U.S. could be taking to counter Russia’s aggression:
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Obama said he would be more flexible , so , Ben Dover
What do you mean? He sent John Kerry over there. [/sarc]
” - - - White House is announcing an aid package to Ukraine of $1 billion - - - “
FINALLY! A highly successful backward solution to all known problems comes out of the Nobel Peace Prize winning White House!
“What is that?, “ You may ask? The answer, of course, is unlimited amounts of unfunded US Taxpayer Debt Dollars!
Yup! Works every time, and faster than you can can say “IcandoanythingIwantbyjustbyoassingCongress.” Nobel Laurette Soetoro-Obama just says: “Charge it to the next generation, please! Whoopee! My work here is done! Golf anyone?”
Secretary of Statements John “Cachup” Kerry will ride in, start writing rubber checks, and the ensuing bright rosy glow will spread around the World. Well, maybe not onto “the Arab Street.”
Although the always weak, Obamanation Foreign Policy is well on the way to its usual backward success, there are still a few topics that have yet to be resolved, as follows:
* Were is the Internet Video that caused the Ukrainians to force their beloved President to take the entire Ukrainian Treasury with him when he fled the country?
* Will “Catchup” Kerry enlist the help of famed video detective Susan Rice to help him track down and jail the perp. who made this awful, obscure, unknown video, that the United States had nothing to do with?
* Will the US Department of Statements spend more unfunded US Taxpayer Debt Dollars for the Ukranian Denial Ad than they did for the 2012 Benghazi Denial Ad?
* Note: Kerry must excel here because due to the obvious cruel onslaught of the aging process on Mrs. Bill Clinton, “Catchup” Kerry may be duty-bound to replace her as the obvious Democrat frontrunner in the 2016 Presidential race.
* Since POS Soetoro-Obama hit the famous RESET BUTTON on Russia, the NASA Space Program has had to be “dependent on the kindness of strangers” from Russia. Hopefully, our astronauts will be able to borrow food and vodka from the Russians while they wait for “Catchup” Kerry to resolve this Ukrainian “investment.”
* Will buddy Vlad Putin be as flexible with the Renowned Obamanation Foreign Policy as Soetoro-Obama was with Putin?
* Rumor has it that Vlad Putin has his eye on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his defusing of the Syrian “Red Line” Crisis.
* Another rumor is that Putin could win the Nobel Peace Prize if he sold all of Russia’s US Treasury Notes, requested that the USA be dropped from the G9, and appointed Snowden to be the Russian Ambassador to the United States of America.
The point is not what his remaining courses of action are - those are admittedly very limited - but what he and his State Department did not do in order to prevent this or at least to see it coming. Their recent track record is appalling, and that isn’t merely a partisan complaint.
The wider geo-political fall-out may be a lot bigger than the Crimea, and just maybe, that is the Obama plan.
Under Obama, the USA has developed a foreign policy that weakens not only us, but also our allies. While our stronger allies can stand up for themselves in the short term, it is the smaller nations like Ukraine, Taiwan, Poland and others, that have a choice to make. Can they still count on the USA?
We saw a preview of this when Obama first decimated the rules of engagement, then changed the mission, reduced funding and finally withdrew from Iraq, and is doing the same with Afghanistan. Both those countries have made their choice, and we are virtually back where we were 25 years ago in the Middle East, except now Obama is telling Israel that he won’t back them up either.
Failing to make a substantial effort to keep Russia in check in the Ukraine will sound the death-knell for some of our other allies. What will Obama do if China invades Taiwan? China, at this point, has to believe nothing will happen, just some bluster and empty threats.
I cannot help but revisit Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary on Obama, and see how what he says in there is playing out. Is it that Obama won’t act against Russia, because the Soviet Union supported the “freedom fighters”, including his father, in Kenya, and the rest of Africa?
Incompetent hardly describes it. Putin knew Obama would roll over faster than a whipped puppy.
Kiev has been under Russian control over a thousand years, and the Russians don’t want to give that land up any quicker than we would give up the states of the thirteen colonies. Texas has a better chance for lasting secession than Ukraine.
“Those Greek columns Obama built must have been, totally, just a stage prop.”
Those silly things told me everything I needed to know about that pretentious worm.
The BRICS are moving to contain the out of control Obama and his soft power thugs (Libya, Syria, Egypt, Ukraine, etc.). Next up will be China. Obama must be impeached and removed from office. If he is not removed soon, the US is finished as an international power broker.
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