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The thing that makes me nervous in all this is that both parties are not good at what they don’t like. Republicans don’t do social programs very well and democrats don’t do war very well. Obama’s incompetence could get us in a heap o’ trouble.
President Eleven?
In 20 years it will be: Chinese president orders US to show restraint.
Pei Ping
If Obama showed any more “restraint” he’d be sending aid directly to Putin!
Say, Xi...just wondering...but does that part about diplomatic solutions apply to your new bud, Vladimir.
Where’s the press release and news announcment from you to him to remove his military, which he has used to invade the Ukraine?
Should he be urged by China to show similar “restraint?”
Hmmm?
I thought not.
I thought about this for a few minutes and I concluded that Xi Jinping has a sense of humor.
“Political and diplomatic routes must be used to resolve the crisis,” Xi added.
I am all in favor of diplomacy, in such situations as we have with Crimea, however, in such situations as we have with Crimea diplomacy cannot be the only tool we exercise, because it would be a grave error of fiction to deny that Putin has already a created a military threat and military dimension to the issue.
That has to be met with more than just diplomacy, it has to have costs, costs to Russia in order to make it possible for diplomacy to have a chance at returning the situation to the previous status quo in Crimea.
Otherwise, with zero costs to Russia, diplomacy will be so much jibber jabber and Russia will change the facts on the ground to irreversible facts that only worse, more grave and possible military responses can try to counter.
In such a situation as we have with Crimea so far, diplomacy can become simply an an excuse for not taking stronger actions when stronger actions are needed.