When you decide, as he has publicly stated, to lead from behind, when you draw lines in the sand and do nothing when those lines are crossed, you become irrelevant as the leader of the free world. Putin is taking advantage of Europe’s naive hopes and Obama’s ignorance.
“When you decide, as he has publicly stated, to lead from behind, when you draw lines in the sand and do nothing when those lines are crossed, you become irrelevant as the leader of the free world. Putin is taking advantage of Europe’s naive hopes and Obama’s ignorance.”
I see that we agree on something.
Nature abhors a vacuum. Something is going to fill it.
Obama created the opportunity, and Putin moved on it. I don’t think that ever figured into the Obama Admin’s calculus.