I would never let my feelings about Obama change my feelings about Putin. I know that Obama is not the most competent of our presidents, but even he is more competent than Putin.
The USA is a lot more than just our president. Our economy keeps growing while Putin's kleptocracy continues to deteriorate. Putin has chosen kleptocracy over a free market economy. That is an incompetent decision.
It is Putin who incompetently provided some of his drunken friends with rockets that would shoot down planes. He probably miscalculated and did not foresee that his friends would shoot down a commercial airliner and then loot the crash site. But, that costly miscalculation is hardly a sign of competence.
I suspect Putin knew that his jets were disrespecting Turkey's airspace and I suspect that he thought it was funny. I view it as another costly miscalculation.
So, I think that unfolding events are not demonstrating that Putin is the genius that some people seem to think he is.
We will not attack or even defend Turkey beyond a fig leaf.
Obama is a pussy on the World stage. He is entirely responsible for the ‘Arab Spring” while simultaneously turning his back on the much more important ‘Green Revolution”.
Voting against a country that would not once, but twice elect Obama is a pretty good bet. Besides we can brush off as a ‘win’ anything that saves us the need to protect Erdagon.
Our economy has seen no real growth in over eight years. We have a government and Federal Reserve that have propped up the market through cheep money, massive government spending and smoke and mirrors. Or do you believe that Unemployment is at 5%?
I don't think Putin is a genius of any type. He is simply a smarter than Obama and his entire staff. Of course so are my four year old twins.
Assad will survive. Putin will make Obama his boy, as he always does.
Well said!