Not Ukraine the country, Ukraine the Obama foreign policy failure. Seriously – Progs, Obots and other Democrats are banding together across the internet and the airwaves to mount an all-out defense of a political fiasco. They are throwing everything including the kitchen sink into this effort.
So far in the past 2-3 days I have seen the following defenses offered by Democrats (in no particular order):
1. Crisis? What Crisis?
2. Obama is on top of it.
3. No one could have seen this coming.
4. Putin’s decision to invade was irrational and impulsive.
5. There is nothing we could have done anyway.
6. Bush did it too. (in Georgia)
7. The Ukrainians started it.
8. The Republicans are just using this as an excuse to attack Obama.
9. Look! Squirrel!!
10. The kitchen sink
The one thing I have yet to see anyone on the left say is “Wow, Obama and Kerry sure fucked up this time.”
Who was it that said truth is the first casualty of war?
By itself, the Russian invasion of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine is not a major world crisis. NATO and the Obama administration aren’t going to do anything except squawk and impose some symbolic but basically meaningless “sanctions.”
The real danger is that Obama is now fully exposed as a weak and vacillating paper tiger. Putin knows he has nearly three years in which to reassert Russian control over Eastern Europe. Poland and the Baltic states beware!
Even worse, Iran now can be assured they have nothing to fear except Israel when it comes to their nuclear program. President Assad can crush the rebellion in Syria with impunity. A number of authoritarian regimes around the world will be emboldened to align themselves with Russia to oppose us. China may get frisky too.
Basically, the Cold War is back and we aren’t ready for it. Ronald Reagan must be spinning in his grave.
The Crawdad Hole 
Truman, Ike, JFK, LBJ and Nixon gotta be pissed too.
I saw a tweet that said “It took 5 years for Obama to lose a Cold War that took 7 presidents to win.”
It’s probably 3 years too late to save Ukraine, but maybe we could reinforce Poland?
I was thinking of Poland also. Didn’t Obama stab them in the back shutting down a missile defense system ? Because Peace and Love will win the day ?
He did shut down the missile defense system (iirc) He’s so good a stabbing people – friend and foe alike – in the back. It’s a wonder we have any allies at all.
Maybe he knew this was coming. 😡
Not only did he do it, but don’t forget this:
“On the 70th Anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Poland, Barack Obama announced that he was abandoning Bush era plans to install ballistic missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic, pleasing Moscow and igniting fear among our Eastern European allies.”
(Taken from the article “Obama Abandons Poland”)
But the position Obama is in, confronting a brazenly defiant Russia and with few ways to meaningfully enforce his threat, has been years in the making. It is the product of his record in office and of the way he understands the period in which he is governing, at home and abroad.
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Yup. Like I said, at least 3 years too late to act tough now.
If the shooting starts Ukraine is gonna be sorry. There is no way they can take on Russia.
They may be under the mistaken impression that the West will help.
John “Otter” Kerry: “You fucked up… you trusted us!”
Best excuse I’ve seen for Obama HE’S A DIPLOMAT, NOT A WAR MONGER LIKE BOOOOSH.
Ahh, gee, how’s that working out ? Sounds like he’s called his “mean girl” pals in Canada and France and made them tell Putin “we don’t like what you’re doing so we’re not going to the G8 party”. That’s Obama’s “diplomacy”.
How did that work out for Georgia?
Being lectured daily on the importance of the Ukraine and Crimea by my visiting cousin, a former public policy expert at the University of Cincinnati, I am still wondering (being mindful that I can’t stand the sight of Obama) what exactly and precisely everyone thinks Obama should have done. Ukraine is not an easy one….or is it?
wmcb:
In other words, what he (and EU) could have done is not poke the bear. They could have seen what would likely happen as a response. And even after the poking, there are things a real leader could have done to maneuver and out play Putin at this chess game. A ruthless leader would have. Not that we want a ruthless leader here, but some sort of leader was needed.
There are two basic things we should have been doing.
1. Use diplomacy to defuse tensions and avert a confrontation. Instead it was like we were goading Ukraine into a fight with Russia.
2. Military preparedness. We are basically powerless right now to do anything, but we had five years to get ready and we did nothing.
Not run in 2012
It is becoming more and more obvious that he should NOT have run again. He could have walked away and declared victory with Obamacare and said everyone else f-ed it up after he left. But hubris got in the way. I have read four different comments about him having a raging alcohol problem this morning and all said it is becoming a real concern in DC. “They say” he has a cut off time for any kind of work and he then drinks and is “unavailable”. This would explain a lot. Also he is taking antidepressants which would make sense too if he is totally overwhelmed. What a mess.
Could explain where he was the night of Benghazi, passed out ? I don’t know how he sleeps at night anyhow, so I would totally buy into anti-anxiety and sleeping aids.
Then there was this ……?????
It may be wishful thinking to say he has a drinking problem – an excuse for his ineptness and absence of any moral judgment. I don’t know anything about bronco and alcohol, or bronco and depression. but if he IS taking anti-depressants, alcohol is just about the worst thing he can combine with that medication.
That kind of scared me. Mixing the two is poly-substance abuse. Moderate drinking OR anti-depressants are common I’m sure in DC but both? And I’m sure that the rumor mill is trying to come up with an explanation (poor Bronco, he is so stressed) for his bizarre and inexplicable inept behavior. The “happy hour” comment on Friday was just peculiar.
It was all ego for Obama. Because he is the crappiest president of all, he needed to show that he could win a second term. I started watching the Netflix documentary, “Mitt.” Talk about a guy who has total self-awareness backed up by intelligence. He can analyze anything within minutes. America screwed up royally by not electing him president.
AMEN AMEN AMEN!!! 🙂
I still don’t believe America didn’t elect Mitt. Yeah, yeah, it isn’t tinfoil Tuesday yet, but that’s my story, and I’m sticking too it.
What scares me even more than believing this idjit’s team (I don’t think Obama himself if capable of carrying out any sort of high-level plan that requires stealth and brains) cheated his way to re-election? Who the GOP plans on putting up in 2016 that THEY plan on cheating into the presidency. Monkey see, monkey do and all that…
Ain’t that the truth!
Foreign policy is a continuum. It’s not one event. It’s not “Gee, what could Obama do to respond to the specific act of Russia invading Crimea.” There may be very little he can do at this point. It’s “Why has he spent the last 6 years proving himself to be feckless, vacillating, and clueless on the world stage?” Why has he made repeated threats he failed to back up? Why has he covered up a terrorist attack? Why has he encouraged uprisings (Arab Spring) that have ended in even worse conditions? Why did he depose a dictator militarily (Qaddafi) in order to look good on the news, then essentially abandon that country to chaos and show zero further interest in it at all?
He has comported himself on the world stage as a child playing with matters he doesn’t begin to understand. That has consequences.
You are on a roll with great comments this a.m.
I’m gonna take a break and try to get some sleep. I have been awake since 3 am.
Obama believes in talking loudly and carrying a small to nonexistent stick.
If he has no cards to play then he should just keep his talk to a minimum rather than threatening red lines or talking tough.
ROFLMAO!
😆
Ruh roh!
I’m going to keep count of how many times she “sniffs” at them. She is so smart and lawyerly. Maybe all the Repubs will cede Rep Gowdy their time. I think I will email the chairman and suggest that. It would be epic. She would not be showing up if she thought he had four hours to grill her on a spit.
http://americanthinker.com/blog/2014/03/russia_and_china_play_the_long_game_while_obama_dithers.html
Russia and China play the long game.
I learned when I was a teenager do not show weakness or you will get attacked
I learned that you don’t have to beat up a bully, you just have to fight him. Then he will leave you alone.
http://americanthinker.com/blog/2014/03/a_new_age_now_begins.html
a new age now begins
between the corruption in Europe and backtrack weakening this country Russia has no reason to worry
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/russia-seeks-access-bases-eight-countries-its-ships-and-bombers
this story is from several days ago.
Russian expansion. look where they want access bases
Obama’s Hollywood BFFs not having a good weekend either. Here’s your Razzie results from last night:
http://www.freep.com/article/20140302/ENT01/303020101/razzies-awards-will-jaden-smith
That movie was horrible.
I’ve already heard my favorite version of #7. It’s the evil right-wing fascist Ukrainians that started all this by rebelling against the better administration. And so it’s right-wing fascists fighting right-wing fascists (yep, Russia is right-wing, of course), and so we shouldn’t care.
Putin was writing a doctoral thesis on the Great Game via energy economics when Obama was a choomer in Hawaii. Guess which one prepared for this all of his adult life?
Stealing and tweeting that.
From Hillary State department cables (via wikileaks) from 2009:
But who could have guessed this would happen? Butt covering liars is all that is in the media.
I don’t disagree that Russia has done that. They likely have. However, the West and the EU have done the exact same things by funding and fanning communal tensions via anti-Russian forces.
As is Obama doing this in the US. Divisive politics is about he’s got.
…about ALL he’s got.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/03/russian-un-ambassador-insists-crimea-deployments-are-based-on-agreements-with-ukraine-video/
Russian UN ambassador insists Crimea deployments are based on agreements with Ukraine
Of course they will say something like that. They won’t say “We felt like invading them so we did.”
http://weaselzippers.us/177869-kerry-putin-invading-ukraine-an-act-of-weakness/
per kerry…..Putin invading Ukraine is an act of weakness
unbelievable
probable putin reply LMAO
Russian TV will not air the Oscars ceremony live due to seriousness of the events in Ukraine’s Crimea region – @MiriamElder
OMG what will hollywood do????
Putin is showing Obama how a real dictator controls the flow of information.
I guess no one from Russia or Ukraine is in our Oscar pool.
Canadian reporter yesterday
http://www.duffelblog.com/2014/02/obama-future-wars/#!x0og4
backtrack on future wars
http://www.duffelblog.com/2014/02/obama-future-wars/#ixzz2uq6XnFJT
So, he cuts the military. God, I hate this man.
HAHAHA!
“Beware of Russians driving tanks.”
I have to step away from Twitter every so often so my account doesn’t overheat. I really don’t feel like getting suspended again.
SPOILER!!!!, don’t click the linky…..Looks like God is getting trumped by Allah this weekend in movies ? Disclaimer: My son’s an air marshal, and he assured me he’s not a drunk….yet. 😀
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2014&wknd=09&p=.htm
MOTUS is excellent today
http://www.michellesmirror.com/2014/03/because-in-russia-all-our-former.html