Posted on 05/28/2014 1:14:13 AM PDT by nickcarraway
An Obama idolator treating himself to a nice fantasy. Putin still pockets Crimea. That’s worth everything this has cost him and more. Look at the map!
Friedman showing everyone that he is on drugs.
>> In the end, it was Putinism versus Obamaism
As far as I can tell, Putin isn’t interested in that kind of thing.
Plus Russia and China just settled on a historic energy agreement.
Soviet ships were rust buckets.. AND JFK was a moron..
INTIMIDATED_BY_MOM_JEANS_PING!
Let’s add it up: Putin’s seizure of Crimea has weakened the Russian economy, led to China getting a bargain gas deal, revived NATO, spurred Europe to start ending its addiction to Russian gas and begun a debate across Europe about increasing defense spending. Nice work, Vladimir. That’s why I say the country Putin threatens most today is Russia.
... made a mockery of Obama’s Russia Reset, strengthened Republican Hawks.
Yep ZERO won. . . . . . . . . . . /s
What made Putin blink was the Ukrainians. Not only are they stacking up Russian GRU bodies in the morgue, but they successfully outsmarted the Russkies in the propaganda war. Ukraine still has a long road ahead of it, but if they maintain their fighting spirit, they have a chance. They can’t expect help from the West, only hindrance.
Exactly.
Tommy Friedman thinks he understands the world, but he's just another liberal moron!
Adolf Hitler blinked when he militarized the Rhineland...
Adolf Hitler blinked when he annexed Austria...
Adolf Hitler blinked when he occupied Czechoslovakia...
It’s good when your adversaries blink.
How could he have blinked when he got everything he wanted?
“There was a moment at the height of the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962 when Soviet ships approached to within just a few miles of a U.S. naval blockade and then, at the last minute, turned back”
The BS from the Camelot myth was that Kennedy stood strong against the Soviets; the truth is that a deal was made where we would withdraw our missiles from Turkey (too close to them) in exchange for them withdrawing theirs from Cuba (too close to us).
No, I think that it was Truman in 1946 and the early Atomic Energy Commission (which morphed into the Department of Energy).
Also, despite Friedman's claim that NATO is "revitalized", they won't be offering Ukraine membership anytime soon.
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