That's it. I'm going on another vacation.
Posted on 03/26/2014 2:54:39 PM PDT by McGruff
Sen. Ted Cruz believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian leaders no longer respect President Obama because of his failure to lead.
"The only thing Putin respects is strength ... At this point the Russians are openly laughing at the president," Cruz, R-Texas, told the Washington Examiner.
Cruz added that Putin's aggressiveness was "a direct consequence" of the absence of American leadership in the world.
"The weakness and incoherent foreign policy of the Obama administration -- from President Obama, under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and under Secretary [John] Kerry -- has undermined our allies and has strengthened our enemies and put Putin in particular in a far stronger position," Cruz declared.
Cruz acknowledged that he was glad Obama was "reluctantly" and "slowly" moving toward acting on Ukraine, but added that he should be doing more.
He suggested that Obama sign a free trade agreement with Ukraine, develop natural gas infrastructure to export resources to Ukraine, and restore a missile defense program in Eastern Europe.
"I think Putin's aggressiveness and act of war against Ukraine is a direct consequence of the absence of U.S. leadership," Cruz said. "For five years, America has receded from leadership in the world, and into that vacuum has stepped in nations like Russia, Iran, and China — and has made the world a much more dangerous place."
Nature abhors vacuums and all that...
The Russians are not the only ones.
The Russians know funny when they see it.
I don’t know Ted...I think you have to be more flexible.
Bammy is Putin’s ‘ho.
Obama fully merits the laughter and derision of the Russians.
The real act is that Obama is happy Putin is doing this, that a socialist nation (yup still) under a kgb-never-disavowed soviet Putin, is doing this.
Obama’s a socialist. He’s happy a socialist power, the USSR under a different name, is rebuilding itself. Totally happy.
The act is that he’s not happy. He’s not that good an actor.
I think Obama was in on this Ukraine debacle. I get the idea him and Putin worked out that coupe to give Putin the excuse to invade and annex Crimea. I could be all wrong
Sorry, unfortunately that's wrong. Cruz clearly does not understand the situation in Russia/Ukraine/Crimea. George Soros and the people running our state department don't suddenly become good people because the conversation turns to foreign affairs.
That's it. I'm going on another vacation.
I would think the ones hurt the most will be the third world marginal nations who are at the periphery of the economy that Obama seeks to destroy. The third world and developing nations will hurt the most.
Inventions? Innovations? Yup, Islam is going to move to the forefront.
I can’t wait for one invention let alone for them to improve on Charmin!
At the end of the day, once Obama is out, America will recover (assuming dilution stops today).
Cruz didn’t say anything like you’ve attributed to him.
The entire world is laughing at mac daddy.
Can you say Svimvear???
I knew you could.
.................Did you say Obama?
Yup.
I think Putin abhors our weakling fraud of a president, so I say no way was this some kind of “secret cooperation” over Crimea.
The laughter coming out of the Kremlin is so infectious—even the Mummy of Lenin in Red Square is smiling.
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