Earlier this afternoon, President Obama gave a very stern warning to Russia not to intervene in the Ukraine.
Oops, wrong link. Meh, whatever.
President Obama said he was “deeply concerned” on Friday over reports that Russian troops are meddling in Ukraine as armed men took up positions in Ukraine’s Crimean region. “Any violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity would be deeply destabilizing, which is not in the interest of Ukraine, Russia or Europe,” he said.
Q. Does any intelligent believe that President Obama would really intervene militarily in Ukraine? A. No.
Q. Does Vladimir Putin give two hoots about President Stompy Foot’s threats?
A. See above.
BTW, here’s a link to an actual video of the president, in which he manages to embarrass and humiliate the United States only slightly less than his foreign policy does.(“Oh yeah, *that* guy makes me think twice about engaging in bad behavior,” said no foreign tyrant ever.)
Update: MSDNC keeps its viewers informed of the most important breaking news and developments.
Update: Putin sends Russian troops into Ukraine; Obama attends Democrat fundraiser. #Priorities.
I just read the article via Drudge. I can only imagine how hard Putin is laughing, especially considering Obama just said a few days ago that he wants to downsize the military. How anyone can still have any respect for him is beyond me. And don’t even get me started on the First Lady.
And we’re stuck with this effin punk for nearly three more years, and the fallout from his (and his minions/supporters) titanic buffoonery for a lot longer than that.
It makes me sick.
England doesn’t want to see an ascendent Russia. France doesn’t. Germany is having flashbacks to the siege of Berlin. Poland is wetting their pants. Europe realizes that if Putin starts rolling across Ukraine, the lack of natural defensive borders is going to carry him right on through to Stuttgart.
The Ukrainian interim president has begged NATO to intervene. This is Sudetenland Part II. Pray to whatever god you worship that Angela Merkel grabs Obama by the balls and activates NATO. If we don’t, we’ll be fighting WWIII within a couple of years.
The Chinese are also “testing” Obama. The state-sponsored news media called the former American ambassador, Gary Locke, a third generation American of Chinese ancestry, a “rotten banana.”
Calling a Chinese-American a “banana” is a slur in East Asia – yellow on the outside, white on the inside.
In this case they called him a “rotten banana” because while he was still yellow on the outside, the inside was so rotten that he turned black.
And Obama has said what about this?
What, exactly, do we propose to do about this? Half the people in Ukraine favor the Russian side. Are we suppose to go to war over this? What leverage do we have over Russia?
The reality is that we have no leverage.
John Kerry says US is behaving like a poor country… that’s because we are.
KCRob, if NATO does not take action, we’ll be fighting WWIII in a couple years. Maybe even less.
Is this the “greater flexibility” that Obama promised Putin?
Sean, I’m in Europe. Germany, actually. Europe does not want to see a threat for itself because it would not know what to do about it. So they treat this largely like an internal matter of the Soviet Union, claim that Ukraine is not a real country anyway and go back to attacking Switzerland, Israel or the US, which feels very safe.
It feels very much like 1977, just before the USSR felt empowered to invade Afghanistan, Argentina thought it could get away with taking the Falklands and Iran knew it could safely attack our embassy.
And then as now the “we are powerless” crowd will quickly turn on any western leader who proves otherwise.
pst314, probably. Look what he did to Poland. He broke the treaty we had with them for a missile defense.
How convenient. Leaves them vulnerable and then starts disarming us.
Annie, that was my first thought when all this started going South–it sucks to be Poland! Everyone is on their own, the U.S. is no longer in the business of saving the world. Kind of too bad because the world is actually a better place when we do.