Posted on 09/30/2015 7:40:57 PM PDT by lbryce
The baton was officially transferred Monday to the world’s new sole superpower — and Vladimir Putin willingly picked it up.
President Obama (remember him?) embraced the ideals espoused by the United Nations’ founders 70 years ago: Diplomacy and “international order” will win over time, while might and force will lose.
Putin, too, appealed to UN laws (as he sees them), but he also used his speech to announce the formation of a “broad international coalition” to fight ISIS in Syria and Iraq. “Similar to the anti-Hitler coalition, it could unite a broad range of forces” to fight “those who, just like the Nazis, sow evil and hatred of humankind,” he said.
And who’d lead this new coalition? Hint: Moscow has always celebrated the Allies’ World War II victory as a Russian-led fete.
Oh, and if anyone wondered which Syrian players the coalition would rely on as allies, Putin made it clear: “No one but President [Bashar al-]Assad’s armed forces and Kurd militia are fighting the Islamic State.”
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Jintao is in a strong second place now. Jintao has also sent troops and naval assets to Syria, and Chinese air assets are on the way right now to join Russia.
Well there is that old rumor I had forgotten about till now...hmm. Remember something about a Russian lady who was visiting in the US who told someone she recognized Obama as the young man being groomed by some Russian entity...or something.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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