Posted on 03/26/2014 11:39:04 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Moments after deflecting a question about his diminished influence on the world stage, President Obama described Russia as a "regional power" operating in Crimea out of weakness, not strength.
Noting Russia's long-standing influence in all of Ukraine, Obama said Russian President Vladimir Putin's illegal annexation of Crimea "indicates less influence, not more."
I guess that's why Ukraine's defense minister resigned and Ukrainian troops bugged out of Crimea, leaving it to Russian forces. This is the only "off ramp" that matters in Crimea. Ukraine and its rhetorically florid Western allies took it. Not Putin. Even as the White House insists Crimea is not "lost" (Putin can find it without satellite imagery, after all), the grudging language of concession seeps from every corridor of Ukrainian talks here.
"It's not a done deal in the sense that the international community by and large isn't recognizing the annexation of Crimea," Obama said, before acknowledging the "facts on the ground" favored Russia. "It would be dishonest to say there is a simple solution to resolving what has already taken place in Crimea."
Obama and European leaders are rattled and resentful, thunderstruck that the wispy bonds of international "norms" could be so easily shredded. Fearful of the precedent they appear incapable of reversing, and desperate to limit Putin's ambitions to Crimea, the G-7 nations have effectively conceded Crimea. They threatened "sectoral sanctions" if Putin further bulldozed international law by gobbling up more of Ukraine or plowing into Moldova. Weak or strong, Putin enforces the new Crimean status quo. All he's lost is Russia's G-8 membership pin and decoder ring.
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God is letting this idiot assemble his own hell.
We showed Putin! We took away his Netflix account!
So you are asserting that Obama is, in fact, a king?
The reporter is “Major Garret” who worked on FoxNews for years.
Why would I have to do so?
He’s an office holder.
The real “king” of the US constitution is the “we the people.” And that means me and that means you.
And Barack didn’t singlehandedly do this. It needed the winks and nods of half the country.
Obama is a sad little boy
Because monarchy is the form of government that God allowed. The only one.
That’s not biblically provable. Democracies have come and gone, as have kingdoms.
But philosophically, I agree that people WANT monarchy. The way America was able to fare as well as it did, was that there was a consensus, across all segments of Christendom which constituted an unusually high proportion of early America, that only Jesus should be their king. And so it went, fairly well at first.
Anyhow, people, even conservatives, seem to be perfectly happy with Barack in the role of emperor now. Calvinball being played with Obamacare? The reaction is more a sigh of relief than indignation that We The People are not getting our constitution followed.
In comparison, the man manages to make Chamberlain look competent.
He should look Putin in the eye and set a red line.
Bush saw a soul. Bush never reported what KIND of soul.
You brought up Romans 13. Show me a government other that monarchy in the Bible.
Paul would have known about democracy. Did he ever mention or even allude to it?
Romans 13 is about the servant of the governor. That could fit in a monarchy OR in a democracy.
But I’d say no democracy can operate without some idea of “heaven” behind it. The Greeks did have their pantheon.
God admonished the Israelites not to seek a human king — that it would be a source of trouble. It fell on deaf ears. They insisted on feeling inferior to other peoples, completely missing the point of who God was!
This statement is blatantly false.
Bush, Sending Aid, Demands That Moscow Withdraw (Bush sent US Troops to Georgia)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/world/europe/14georgia.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
“WASHINGTON — President Bush sent American troops to Georgia on Wednesday to oversee a “vigorous and ongoing” humanitarian mission, in a direct challenge to Russia’s display of military dominance over the region. His action came after Russian soldiers moved into two strategic Georgian cities in what he and Georgian officials called a violation of the cease-fire Russia agreed to earlier in the day.”
U.S. to Complete Redeployment of Georgian Forces from Iraq
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060231/posts
U.S. Believes Russian Forces Land in Ukraine (Fmr. Georgia Pres says Bush stopped Putin in 2008)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3128382/posts
Obama’s Menu of Small Options For Big Russian Problem In Ukraine
http://swampland.time.com/2014/03/03/ukraine-putin-obama-war-crimea/
“In 2008, when Russia invaded Georgia, President George W. Bush moved U.S. warships into the region and used them to supply humanitarian aid.” (Yeah, and those Navy ships had no offensive weapons on boardl. Idiots!)
Transcript of Bush remarks on Russia-Georgia
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2061251/posts?page=0
Warning: U.S. President George W. Bush with Vladimir Putin in Beijing. Putin today lashed out in return, accusing the U.S. of helping Georgia
Watch as Putin puts Obama in his Place—and it will not be pretty!
McCain has accused Democratic rival Barack Obama of mounting an insufficiently vocal defence of Georgia as Russian troops crossed into its independent territory this week. The Republican’s closeness to Saakashvili has also drawn criticism: the senior foreign policy adviser to McCain was a paid lobbyist for Georgia until three months ago.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7559252.stm
Mr Bush hinted that Russia could be jeopardising its international ties.
The first US C-17 military aircraft has landed in Tbilisi carrying medical and other supplies.
The Kremlin said the US must choose between partnership with Moscow, or with the Georgian leadership.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB121866388366238327
WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush dispatched Navy ships and Air Force planes to deliver aid to war-torn Georgia, bringing a dose of Cold War-style brinksmanship to the confrontation between the U.S. and Russia.
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