Worse yet. The Russians are stuck with him after his fourteen years of playing the President for Life Third World role. It’s not our fault though. Really. Don’t lapse into all faults in the world are ours thinking. I don’t blame America first because a former KGB Colonel aspired to take over Russia to seek a revanchist dream. I mean how is he different than Milosovic who went from Commie to extreme Ultra Serb Nationalist? He’s not. He needed a theme. I’m sure he’d agree that Russia’s pride was wounded by the world not treating Russia like it was a success story, but it’s a failure because of the Tsar, the commies, and the Putinistas, not because of anyone else. You might as well say when Obama’s policies fail that we should ignore that and treat him as a success because his dad’s was from Africa. Irrelevant.
I think you’re missing my whole point. I do think you touch on important issues. I am not blaming the U. S. first here. There as been a void between us, and I think a sharp cookie president would have tried to develop a better relationship with Russia to stave off things like this Ukraine adventurism.
I don’t think Russia is particularly enamored with China. None the less, it has chosen to snuggle up close with China to counter-balance the U. S. That alone makes it pretty damned clear that our relations with Russia are far worse in their eyes, than they actually are. We could have avoided that.
Are we the main problem with Putin? No. Putin IS ex KGB. None the less I think a Reagan could have handled him much more productively. There’s nothing Anti-U.S. in that stance.
I don’t think we’ve had a Secretary of State, or a State Department that had half a clue since Reagan either. For all the talk of Condi Rice, she seemed too comfortable in the globalist world view for my taste. Her comments against Israel were just plain numbskull material.
Man, I have seldom seen someone miss the intent or content of a post more, than you have missed mine.
Where did I say that Putin’s failures were the West’s fault? Where did I say that Russia’s failures were the West’s fault?
How is he different than Milosovic? Please, copy and past anything much I said about Putin being some sort of wise leader. I spoke of him being handled better. I don’t know how that translates into him being anything other than what you seem desperate to describe him as.