Obama’s weakness emboldens Putin

Washington Post ^ | March 3, 2014 | By Marc A. Thiessen

[Jim Robinson]

When President Obama declared Friday that “there will be costs” for any Russian intervention in Ukraine, you could hear the laughter emanating from the Kremlin — followed by the sound of Russian military vehicles roaring into Crimea and seizing control of the peninsula.

“Costs?” Vladi­mir Putin must have thought. Just like the “costs” Obama imposed on the Assad regime in Syria?

[Darteaus94025]

Cost: hear Obama cry and moan.

[RC one]

I think you could make the case that it is much more than just Obama's weakness that emboldens the likes of Putin. Many things have changed since Reagan left office in both America and in Russia.

[Berlin_Freeper]

there will be costs

[kingattax]

for the dope that really should have been mowing the white house lawn, the winner is...... ?

[Stepan12]

These Ukrainian neo Nazis? Why support them over Putin? Maybe we should stay out.

[Jim Robinson]

I have no dog in this fight. But it sure is proving what an idiot Obama is.

[equaviator]

Putin sees right through Obama but it doesn’t take a Putin to do that.

[Dog]

Whats scary Jim is Obama and crew could bumble us into a hot war not of our choosing just by running his mouth.

[Jack Hammer]

Obama.....

Who’s he?

[McGruff]

[Nervous Tick]

>> Whats scary Jim is Obama and crew could bumble us into a hot war not of our choosing just by running his mouth.

What’s even scarier is that John Kerry has been sent to Kiev to run HIS mouth.

[John W]

Good point. The One who was to change the world and change the world’s attitude towards America is next to irrelevant in regards to this major world event.

[Bikkuri]

Most of us saw this coming before the first time the (unknown) child was put in Office.

[Georgia Girl 2]

What a joke. Barry in the Whitehut on the phone for 90 minutes with Putey. I would love to have had 5 minutes with the little gangsta. Whining on the phone with a guy like Putin for an hour and half is just enabling.

If Obama had any brains he would have led off with “Well Vlad I’m alredy re-thinking that missile sheild for Poland and the Chechs.” “Dude now I don’t know if the credit window at the Western bank is going to be open to Russia much longer.” “The US is going drill now drill here and export, export, export.” On and on for about 5 minutes. “ Then “well I’ve got a tee time gotta run.”

[TexasRepublic]

If ever China planned to invade Taiwan, now is the time. Obama would bluster, then business as usual.

[nascarnation]

Didn’t Baraq say he could see the Chinese invasion fleet from the golf course in Hawaii?

[Revolting cat!]

Emboldens Putin? And not only him. Fat Boy Un in North Korea is licking his lips as he watches responses of the West’s kindergarten leaders.

[Stepan12]

Mr. Robinson (defender against all evil), we both know the affirmative action Hitler was an idiot long before. We also knew that Mitt (happens) Romney would be a very weak candidate. In one of the few postings I did, I wrote that Mitt was a poor candidate for America’s side. Most of the board acted as if I called for the slaughter of their first born, but my post replicating Don Feder’s article was the correct one.