Putin is Using Obama's Talking Points: Extra-legal cynicism comes home to roost.

The American Spectator ^ | March 12, 2014 | James S. Robbins

[Abakumov]

Putin maintains he has a right to use any means necessary to protect the Russian minority in Ukraine. Putin’s reasoning parallels the case Obama made in March 2011 to support U.S. intervention in Libya under the rubric of “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P). “We are answering the calls of a threatened people,” Obama said then. Putin may well say they same thing after anti-Russian riots – organic or manufactured – break out in coming weeks. If and when his forces eject the Turchynov government in Kiev, Putin could argue that “every government has the responsibility to protect its citizens, and any government that brutalizes and massacres its people does not deserve to govern.” This is what Obama said regarding Syria’s dictator and Russia’s friend Bashar al-Assad. The main difference is, Assad still rules; Turchynov is on borrowed time.

[bgill]

He’s merely using that flexability.

[Abakumov]

So flexible they bent him right over

[Navy Patriot]

Obama’s chickens have come home to roost.

[Flavious_Maximus]

Putin can say whatever he wants. He does not need to explain anything to anyone because he knows that Obama and his homosexual army will do absolutely nothing about it. Obamas homosexual military do not frighten any one, least of all Russia.

[HotHunt]

[Dalberg-Acton]

[gleneagle]

So, Putin has a pen and a phone?

[TigersEye]

Putin said “I hope 0bama calls my bluff.”