Obama 'Turns the Nuclear Cheek' To Vladimir Putin (Libero Quotidiano, Italy)
"Obama isn't content to slip into the darkness of a historic setback that will inscribe him in history as leader of the Western superpower who aided the rebirth of the ambitions of the former Soviet empire.
No! Surprisingly (perhaps), Obama ordered the Pentagon to announce deep cuts to
America's nuclear arsenal, FOUR YEARS BEFORE required under the terms of the New
Start Treaty, the one-sided reduction of nuclear weapons signed with Putin in
2010."
Obama
turns the other cheek to Putin, announcing a voluntary reduction in
U.S. nuclear missiles, which even the Russians didn't expect. The “outlaw”
Vladimir, who has already forcibly pried Crimea away from Ukraine without it costing
him more than a few ridiculous travel restrictions on his officials, needs only
to observe the prevarications of the American administration, shilly-shallying about
what to do. Even mild-mannered John Kerry, a “veteran” of his own personal war when
he was a young regretful soldier (in favor of Vietnam and against America), couldn't
help but notice that there are “Russian agitators in eastern Ukraine” who are infiltrators
from Moscow, and that the 50,000 Russian troops massed along the border aren't on
a sightseeing trip, but are preparing for something big.
Before
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the secretary of state accused Moscow
of infiltrating Ukraine with agitators, which
he called “an illegal and illegitimate effort to destabilize a sovereign
state and create a contrived crisis with paid operatives across an
international boundary.”
That
is, they use local ethnic Russians, who are not threatened by the rest of the
population, as a justification for phase two of its invasion. Kerry sees and
says the right things, even if his analysis fails to answer the question of what
American will do if, after Crimea, the Russians cross the border. Moreover,
Obama has made it abundantly clear to Putin that Ukraine is not "foremost
in his mind," and that he will surely not lift a finger on a military
level, even if all of Ukraine falls to Moscow. Rather, he will launch some additional
diplomatic and economic propaganda, introduce some additional sanctions, promise
to sell natural gas to Europe (in two years or so), and in the meantime, the
situation will "crystallize." The way it did in regions of Georgia taken
by Putin in 2008. As it did in Assad’s Syria after Obama’s pathetic threat of
U.S. air raids ended with surrender to Putin, plenipotentiary of “Syrian chemical
disarmament,” which will never be completely achieved.
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Putin and Obama: Who is getting the best of
who?
Europeans,
of course, are happy not to have precipitated the crisis in Kiev between
Washington and Moscow. E.U. governments are closer to the American government in
words (because there isn't a Republican in the White House at the moment), and
formally they are NATO allies, but given their portfolio of interests, almost
all of E.U. leaders stand by Putin's side, even if it was left to his friend Silvio Berlusconi, and his business partner, the former
Socialist German Chancellor Helmut Schroeder, to say so explicitly. So without Western
pressure to take serious action on the Ukraine crisis, Obama is only too happy
to dedicate his time to income inequality, the minimum wage, salary discrepancies
between men and women, as well as telling lies about Obamacare.
By
the way, Obama isn't content to slip into the darkness of a historic setback that will inscribe him in history as leader of the Western superpower who aided the rebirth of the ambitions of the former Soviet empire. No!
Surprisingly (perhaps), Obama ordered the Pentagon to announce deep cuts to America's
nuclear arsenal, FOUR YEARS BEFORE required under the terms of the New
Start Treaty, the one-sided reduction of nuclear weapons signed with
Putin in 2010.
Russia
scraps treaties, from the 1994 Budapest Memorandum
(signed by Russia, the U.S. and Britain that guaranteed Ukraine's territorial
integrity in exchange for the dismantling of its own nuclear arsenal) to the Intermediate-Range
Nuclear Forces Treaty between U.S. and Russia, and the response from the White
House is to grant an advance of its own disarmament. Rather than freeze all
cooperation, which at least would have been a sign of dignity, Obama rushes to
dismantle by 2014 what Moscow expected to be decommissioned by 2018. And this
occurred just a few days after TheWall St. Journal
reported that Hans Kristensen of the
Federation of American Scientists wrote that "'Russia has increased its
counted deployed strategic nuclear forces over the past six months.' Yet at the
same time America's stockpile of warheads and launchers has declined." Why
has Obama decided to show Putin the other cheek? Because he is a left-wing
ideologue, a slave to a pacifism divorced from reality, who knows only how to
surrender to the bad faith of his opponents.
