Are we witnessing the run up to the next world war? Hitler was emboldened repeatedly by the soft response and inaction of the strongest world leaders. Germany profited from it’s conquests and fed it’s war machine.
Hitler’s diabolical ideals were thwarted by his own arrogance and impatience. Had he not invaded Russia, Russia would likely have not intervened in WWII. The Allied forces would have had a much tougher time with Germany had Germany not spread its forces so thin on two fronts.
The point is, Putin is surely emboldened by the world’s non-response. Will he strike while the iron’s hot or patiently take over other nations a little at a time? Alliances are already starting to break down and form up as the world anticipates a shift in global power. Everyone wants to team up with the winner (should it come to that).
If history is starting to repeat itself, Russia and China are likely eventual allies. Look for China to take Taiwan without firing a shot. Look for Japan to re-double their military build up and China to feel threatened by that. Eventually China will have to either gain control over North Korea or take them over (which will certainly establish them as a world military power and scare the neighbors).
If this scenario plays out over the next 5 to 7 years, Obama will go down as the Chamberlin of our time.
Really amazing how Obama is so tough on Americans and RINO's but bends over and takes it from foreign strongmen.
HEck Obama said the US never went into Kosovo until after their referendum...they never had one!.. so whoever is making his speeches isn't telling it right to begin with....
Great analysis.
House and Senate; are you listening? He is, at least, going to kill a whole generation of our young men.
His ineptitude, like Chamberlain's, will cause this new iteration of Hitler to go unchecked until it is too late. He, like other cowards in history, will get backed into a corner and see war as his only out. After gutting the military, he will have to conscript young, poorly trained troops and commit them to be slaughtered.
The next war will be more horrible than all our former wars. It has the potential to be truly world-wide. Perhaps at YOUR front door.
We all like to think we are heroes, and some are, but the majority will cave at the first threat.I, honestly don't know how I would react if my wife and family were directly threatened. I hope to God I never have to find out.
It is time to take a real run at impeachment or really investigate this babbling fool's past. If he is truly illegally in OUR White House, he needs to be frog-marched out. I believe we can survive an idiot like"Stand up Chuck" Biden for the short time he would be in office.
OBAMA HAS TO GO!!
Barry On The Stage: A Ballad of the Former Superstar Sung in the Year 2014
(originally “Casey At The Bat”)
The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the new G-8 that day;
The score stood one to zero, and Putin still had cards to play.
And when Kerry failed with Lavrov, and Merkel came up lame,
A sickly silence fell when Romney said Obama was to blame.
A straggling few got up and left in deep despair. The rest
Clung to that hope which springs eternal in the breast;
They thought “Just wait ‘til Barry gets his chance to speak,”
They’d put up even money he’d be the hero of the week.
But Hollande preceded Biden, against Putin on the make,
And the former was limp-wristed and the latter was a flake;
So upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy grew
For there seemed but little chance of Barry getting his debut.
But Hollande collpsed so quickly, to the wonderment of all,
And Biden played the Joker and took another slapstick fall.
And when the dust had lifted they saw what had occurred,
There was Putin at the border making Barry look absurd
Then from 5,000 throats and more there rose a lusty yell;
It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell;
It knocked upon the mountain and recoiled upon the range,
For Barry, mighty Barry, was advancing to the stage.
There was ease in Barry’s manner as he stepped into his place;
There was pride in Barry’s bearing and a smile on Barry’s face.
And when, responding to the cheers, he spritely took a bow,
No stranger in the crowd could doubt that Barry’d show them how.
Ten thousand eyes were on him as his Teleprompter spooled;
Five thousand tongues were cheering “Barry still looks really cool!”
Then while the waiting multitudes felt their heartbeats start to race
Defiance gleamed in Barry’s eye, a sneer crossed Barry’s face.
Then the mighty amplifiers hurtled Barry’s words out through the air,
And Barry stood a-watching in his haughty grandeur there.
But through the air and out the doors his empty words unheeded sped,
“That can’t be Barry speaking!”, his doting followers said.
From the benches, black with people, there went up a muffled roar,
Like the beating of the storm-waves on a stern and distant shore.
“What has happened to our savior?”, yelled the people on the strand.
And it’s likely they’d have walked away had not Barry raised his hand.
With his customary arrogance, great Barry’s visage shone;
He stilled the rising tumult; he bade the speech go on;
He signaled to the ‘prompter, and once more the canned words flew;
But the audience was stuunned again while Putin said, “You’re Through!”
“Fraud!” cried the maddened thousands, and echo answered fraud;
But one scornful look from Barry and the audience was awed.
They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain,
And they knew that Barry wouldn’t let Putin have his way again.
The sneer is still on Barry’s lip, his teeth are clenched in rage;
He pounds with child-like petulance, his fist upon the page.
And now the Teleprompter rolls and Barry’s words begin to flow,
But his words are fluff, the magic’s gone, the charlatan’s laid low.
Oh, somewhere out in Liberal-Land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in The Netherlands - mighty Barry has struck out.
Campaign Barry: “Don’t bring a knife to a gun-fight”.
White House BHO: “Bring a teleprompter and gradual financial sanctions to a tank battle”.
Two sources of Obama’s inaction:
1. Obama obviously read the conventional explanation of the constant, aggressive expansionism of the Russian Empire and its successor state, the USSR: lacking natural borders and invaded by Mongols, Napoleon, and Hitler, it’s driven by understandable insecurity. Being a genius and all, Obama thinks, “Putin is just only reacting to Russia’s post Cold War retraction. ‘Show some flexibility’ (give in) to anything Russia wants and Putin will feel so warm and fuzzy that he will stop. Worked great under FDR”. All these public pronouncements and leaks that Russia might invade Ukraine at any moment and we can’t do anything about it, are an invitation for Putin to proceed and for Ukrainians to act happy about it.
2. Obama does not want an excuse for rejuvenating a US military-industrial complex he desires to fade away. A Cool-War with Russia would provide just such an excuse, and also cause Europe to look to the US for leadership. He wants to weaken America and the West as much as possible, since he sees US military capability as a threat to the world, not a stabilizing force. Besides, military spending eats up welfare dollars, provides employment, stimulates American technical innovation, and uses fossil fuels. Not his thing.
And now we know what “more flexibility” meant.