Posted on 03/17/2014 12:03:50 PM PDT by elhombrelibre
As you watch or listen to "news" broadcasts about events in Ukraine and the Crimea, sometimes actual news with varying degrees of correct information, and sometimes either witting or unwitting propaganda, today's must-read report from Oleg Atbashian is something to keep in the back of your mind as context.
Americans, and particularly naive liberals such as President Obama and much of his foreign policy team, may be inclined to consider the actions of Vladimir Putin and of Russian and Ukrainian nationalists through a filter of western democratic well-meaning...which means that just as they did with the "Arab Spring" they will misinterpret and incorrectly predict almost everything that happens, as well as misunderestimate the determination of our competitors/enemies and overestimate our influence.
I believe the US has little (but more than zero) leverage over Russia, and that President Obama is only slightly less likely than any other recent American president (other than perhaps Ronald Reagan, if you consider that recent) to influence Putin's behavior. The larger risk is that Obama's course of action will magnify the increasing perception of the US as a paper tiger, except that that description is insulting to paper tigers.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
If Russia would only legalize gays, the world would be at peace.
Was kind of odd who Obama chose to punish. Not surprising though. Gay is the way for the NWO.
There you go. Putin cracking down on queers is what started it all. now if he has just said, “Carry on ole chaps when the queers sexually abused the Russian children they adopted and rented out to other queers to have their way with, everything would have been o.k. Glenn Beck would have been smiling instead of crying and blubbering,” I stand with the gays” with his trousers around his feet.
>> the increasing perception of the US as a paper tiger
Adoration was the regime’s primary need. Then came the betrayal and incompetence.
The US won’t be on hold forever.
Well, maybe in Obama’s mind. I assume you’re a bit deeper than that.
Thanks elhombrelibre.
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