What’s so risky? Obama will role. He’s already offered Russia an affordable nuclear parity (or superiority) without even negotiating anything.
Russia is the source and enabler of islamic jihad the world over.
The Russians are sticking it to Obama, and he’s too f-in stupid to even realize it.
He cannot hope to even begin to pacify Afghanistan without this base, ESPECIALLY with the Taliban now attacking convoys in Pakistan.
Which opens the door for RUSSIAN INFLUENCE in this region.
He’s been out-chessed...
Obama. Look.
All they really want are some vowels.
You have three in your last name alone, you selfish bastid.
Why don’t you give them the vowels in your last name?
Henceforth, you can be “Barry Hussein BM” (which seems appropriate), and they can be “Koyragyzastan”.
Now that’s diplomacy, eh?
You’re welcome. No charge to you, Mr. BM... I’m doin’ it for my country.
ugh!!
The Russkies know that Mr. Obama is a pussy. They’re taking advantage of it. End of story...this time.
It figures....this would NOT have happened under Mr. Ronny Ray-Gun!(May He Rest in Peace, my favorite President). I get the strangest feeling that I’m going to get called back from retirement in the Fleet Reserves very soon because of what this Idiot is doing.
And it’s not even 30 days into the Presidency, for crying out loud!
You only play a ‘tricky game’ if your opponent has the stones to call you. Russia’s doesn’t.
Where ever you stand on the issues. Our genius diplomats have screwed up any chance we had to have Russia be non-hostile.
When they were fighting Osama’s guys and other Muslims in Chechnya, we took the side of Islam.
Serbia has been a close Russian ally for centuries. When they asked for a centuries old Serb province, Kosovo, not to be split away. We bombed Belgrade. The USA allied itself with the Drug and Human sex slave trafficking, islamic KLA.
When Georgia attacked S. Ossetia where Russian troops were located, and had been since the days of Thomas Jefferson, we worked to humilate them.
When the warsaw pact disbanded, we expanded
NATO right up to their border.
And all along, we really needed was the use of that former Soviet Air force base in Kyrgystan. Russia let us have free use of that base after 9-11.
The part that amazes me, is that i think our state dept took the positions they did vis-a-vis Russia, and never even thought about how they might retaliate diplomatically. An honest person can disagree about whether we should have taken the actions we did in Kosovo,,NATO,,,etc.
But still, no matter how you see those issues, our diplomats have been at best, very amateurish naive negotiators, not to see that they might pull the rig on a vital base to our efforts in Afghanistan.
And those things were done with Bush people running the show. The utterly incompetent amateur, Obama, is utterly raw meat to resurgent Russian nationalist moves.
Obama is a true disaster for this country.
It’s only politically risky if there’s a plausible chance that the U.S. will take the Russians to the woodshed over this. Not going to happen with Zero running the show so I suspect the Russians figure it’s a chance to stick their thumb in our eye with little or no consequence. And this is just the beginning.
We will be lucky indeed if we get through the next four years without fatalities.
They're testing the new kid on the block that's all.