Obama’s Failed Russia Policy
In recent days, a new topic has been burning up the newswires in the land of Vladimir Putin: Russia will save the world. That’s right, save the world.
The chairman of the Valdai Club, the malignant propaganda tool which Russia uses to ply greedy Western scholars and journalists with caviar and siren songs in order to enlist their aid in de-democratization and imperialist conquest, writes that America cannot conduct successful foreign policy without Russia and that Russia is going to block evil American efforts to “weaken the entire community of Euro-Atlantic nations” with its “unfinished Cold War” of aggression against Russia.
And the head of the Russian Space Agency declares that Russia will, all alone if necessary, ward off a deadly asteroid on a collision course with the Earth, destined otherwise to wipe out a big chunk of its population. Never mind that Russia can’t even get one of its Bulava nuclear missiles to fly a few miles after a submarine launch, it still thinks it can fire one into deep space and hit a tiny rock. Pay no attention to that (American) man behind the curtain who says there is a three-in-a-million chance the rock will strike the Earth.
What’s scary, though, isn’t that Russians can say this stuff with a straight face. After all, compared to the nonsense they used to jabber in the USSR, it’s just par for the course. What’s scary is that maybe, just maybe, our president actually believes it.
There is a lot of talk these days about a Republican resurgence in the upcoming congressional elections. Some say the Democrats could lose their ability to block the Republican filibuster in the Senate, which could turn the entire relationship between Barack Obama and the Congress on its head.
But in fact, as Ariel Cohen (Russia expert for the Heritage Foundation) pointed out in a recent New York Times op-ed, where strategic policy is concerned the Democrats have already lost that battle.
Cohen writes:
The Obama administration has failed to complete the negotiation of a treaty to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Start), which expired on Dec. 5. The two superpowers are now in unchartered waters. The Russians already kicked out U.S. inspectors.
Everyone knows how the Obama administration has been humiliated by being rejected on Start renewal and Iranian sanctions after offering unilateral concessions to Vladimir Putin on European missile defense and human rights and democracy in an effort to buy those results.
This is quite a passionate article on the part of Kim, who calls herself La Russophobe. However, it is quite laughable that she blames Obama for the fact that the US Senate and the Russian government don’t see eye-to-eye. What is Obama supposed to do? Force the Russians to sign a new Treaty on the US Senate’s hawks’ terms at gunpoint?
Bambi does indeed want to aid the swine leading the Russian “government” today. Actually, he probably secretly pines to have the power Pukin’ Putin has so he can off all his enemies as Mad Vlad did to the former KGB agent that was living in the UK.
Bambi wants a world where the US combats crazies like Adbulnutjobabad, Vlad & that nut job in Venzuela by simply sitting around a campfire singing “Kum by Ya.”
Barak Hussien Obama is just part of the adgenda to destroy America . By doing nothing to stop this we’re commiting suicide.
Obama’s Failed Russia Policy
@ 1. Glenn: Point a gun at Putin ?
Yes.
The first duty of a government is to protect its people.
“I’ve got a gun here, and I’m not afraid to use it.”
NOT
“I’ll do anything you want, just don’t hurt me.”
@ 2. Bulgaricus: Can’t we all just get along ?
“I will give you anything which does not interfere
with my transforming the US into a Socialist state;
After that is done, we’ll talk again.”
@ 3. will: Despair is a sin.
Obama, the Democrats, the whole Federal government,
are in the same position as Wile E. Coyote:
They have run right past the edge of the cliff,
and are struggling not to look down, because
they know that will start their fall.
The US is still an exceptional nation, and it
will save itself, though not quickly or easily.
One necessary step is to stay militarily strong
enough to deter anyone who wants to take advantage
of us during the reform/recovery process.
Ah, new meaning to the Zigfeld follies.
is Obama engaged in a concerted effort to dismantle American power because he believes, as the Russians do, that it’s a bad thing for the planet?”
Why is this even a question? The answer is that quite blatantly, obama is a champion of anyone or anything anti-American (as represented by the United States). If that wasn’t so clear from his refusal to honor the US flag and his denigration of the US Constitution during the days of Election 2008 (also when his abominable wife FINALLY found a reason to be proud of “her” country), then it should certainly be crystal clear now, in his utter disregard for the concerns of US citizens who oppose his determination to seize and to assign control of the nation’s health care industry to the Federal government, among his other national/global pursuits.
is Obama engaged in a concerted effort to dismantle American power because he believes, as the Russians do, that it’s a bad thing for the planet?”
Why is this even a question? The answer is that quite blatantly, obama is a champion of anyone or anything anti-American (as represented by the United States). If that wasn’t so clear from his refusal to honor the US flag and his denigration of the US Constitution during the days of Election 2008 (also when his abominable wife FINALLY found a reason to be proud of “her” country), then it should certainly be crystal clear now, in his utter disregard for the concerns of US citizens who oppose his determination to seize and to assign control of the nation’s health care industry to the Federal government, among his other national/global pursuits.
One thing is for sure – either Obama is supremely incompetent, or, he is supremely malevolent against US interests.
Obama has surrounded himself with the most malign anti-American cadre in recent memory.Therefore, it is more likely that those whispering in his ears are surely trying to topple US supremacy. Obama has said on several occasions that he intends to ‘equalize’ American power. Even though he is way out of his depth as the leader of the free world, he knows enough how to abuse his power to dismantle America-domestically and foreign policy wise.
Enough said.
Get used to it. Obama is here for another 7 years!!! he is doing an excellent job!!about time we have a president who is putting our intrest before the interest of Israelis.
he doesn’t make a concerted effort to do anything. that would require figuring how to get out of a paper bag. something that is apparently not within his scope of talents. he is empty, incompetent and ignorant. he does, however, like this haiti thing.
Yankee go home
Ahh the stupidity and antisemitism of MR’s post cant you just smell a MUSLIM.
Here’s yet more proof of Obama’s failed policy on Russia:
http://www.rferl.org/content/USRussian_Accord_On_Transit_Of_Military_Cargo_Fails_To_Get_Off_The_Ground/1930786.html
Yet one more much-hyped achievement that is nothing but illusion.
@ M. Report:
The first duty of a government is to protect its people.
Exactly. But I fail to see how the aggressions against Serbia/Montenegro and Iraq in any way potected us, average Americans. Neither did the NATO expansion into East Europe. Similarly, only paranoid schizophrenics in USA fear Russia militarily, especially since Russian defence spending is 6% that of USA’s and 4% of NATO’s as a whole. In fact, given that USA spends on defense (actually: offense) as much as the rest of the World combined (all at the expense of the US taxpayers), I fail to see any harm to average American taxpayers in signing a new arms control treaty with Russia. The only reason why the Senate doesn’t want to sign this treaty is because arms reduction means less profits for the powerful military-industrial lobby and more money for US taxpayers to spend on their health and their children. It would be nice if some day the US government decides that instead of robbing US taxpayers, it will start serving us.
Adina Kutnicki, Israel:
“”"Obama is supremely incompetent, or, he is supremely malevolent against US interests…trying to topple US supremacy.”"”
Nonsense. Like all politicians, Democrats, including Obama, are highly sensitive to the military-industrial and oil lobbies and will never stop wasting taxpayer’s livelihood on (futile) attempts to exert supremacy over the World. But even if they did stop – what would be wrong? As a Jew, you should be aware that not only “white supremacists” but all supremacists are evil. Power corrupts, and supreme power corrupts supremely.
“Moonbat”?! Okay, I know this is not entirely germane to the issue but this is not a real word as far as I can tell. Do you mean mooncalf? I’ve seen this word twice today on the Pajamas blog and never before; and I can’t find it in ANY dictionary – and I’m not short on dictionaries, trust me.
“An unthinking or insane leftist — in other words, most modern leftists.
Does that help? It is from the Urban Dictionary and can be seen here:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=moonbat
Oops sorry and mr is a moonbat but I believe he or she has other handles, don’t pay any attention to him or her or it and it is usually one liners with no real content! You must be kinda new around here! Welcome aboard and participate more often!
Steve DeMarcus 17 & 18:
I am indeed new – last six months or so on Pajamas. Thanks for the response and the welcome. I actually had also checked three online dictionaries; none had an entry for “moonbat”. I still wonder if “mooncalf” was not in the back of his mind when he coined this word. Very similar. mr is indeed a moonbat. Spot on article. See you around.
To all PJM readers: Phobie is a front for the Jamestown Foundation, a bunch of wannabe American siloviks (the types who funneled millions to pro-Yuschenko NGOs in 2004 and then pretended like the Russians were paranoid for describing the Orange Revolutionists as a U.S. puppet government). The Jamestown-ites are the right wing of Washington’s anti-Russia lobby, the George Soros Open Society types are the ‘left’ wing. But they are more or less the same in their long term Promethean objective of promoting the end of Russia (and later for the Sorosites, America’s) national sovereignty.
Soros himself has been a front for the U.S. government in Eastern Europe since at least 1984 and he has been well-rewarded for his efforts with insider information like the kind he used to nearly destroy the Pound and force the UK into the European Monetary Unit. Or you think Soros is so much smarter than the rest of us that he has a magic crystal ball to come out smelling like a rose, alongside his buddies at Government Sachs? Of course not, they all got insider tips before the suckers at Lehman and Bear Stearns.
Jamestown’s m.o. is to find rabidly anti-Russian writers from the former ‘Captive Nations’ and sometimes self-loathing Russian emigres who left in early Nineties, and use them in vain efforts to revive the Cold War for the sake of their senile donors and MIC buddies. Ziggy ‘herself’ shows no evidence of being able to read or write in Russian or having ever visited the country, despite all claims to the contrary. The Jamestown crowd is connected with Randy Scheunemann and the other useless Russophobic lobbyist/advisors that ran McCain’s 2008 campaign into the ground and now want to attach themselves to Pawlenty or Thune. They’ve already started Thune’s brainwashing about the need to fight ‘Russian neo-imperialism’ with his recent junket to Georgia alongside McCain, and having him meet the likely replacements for the failed tie-eater Saakashvili since even Soros knows mad Saako is a losing horse.
Glenn @ 14 – Well said. “But I fail to see how the aggressions against Serbia/Montenegro and Iraq in any way potected us, average Americans. Neither did the NATO expansion into East Europe. Similarly, only paranoid schizophrenics in USA fear Russia militarily, especially since Russian defence spending is 6% that of USA’s and 4% of NATO’s as a whole. In fact, given that USA spends on defense (actually: offense) as much as the rest of the World combined (all at the expense of the US taxpayers), I fail to see any harm to average American taxpayers in signing a new arms control treaty with Russia.” Russia’s ‘huge arms buildup’ might have raised the figure to 10% of U.S. defense spending in recent years – $100 billion compared to nearly $1 trillion. But until a few years ago lots of Russian soldiers were practically starving. Schizo Kim in typical fashion would point to that and gleefully claim that China was soon to annex Russia’s Far East but when Russia slowly actually started creating a more professional military ‘she’ (likely a chubby dude in his mid-40s) started screaming about the imminent Russian threat to Poland.
Bottom line: it’s all neo-Cold War propaganda backed by ‘have you stopped beating your wife lately’ cyber thuggery directed against individuals.
From Congressman Ron Paul…you can call him a libertarian anti-war moonbat all day but he didn’t make this stuff up.
http://www.antiwar.com/paul/?articleid=4135
and more here:
Links here:
http://www.antiwar.com/paul/?articleid=4135
Soros fronts in Ukraine for Uncle Sam
http://exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=6745&IBLOCK_ID=35&phrase_id=6727
Vlad Socor of Jamestown (one of Phobie’s favorite authors)
Enjoy hope and change, it will add up to your already massive frustration.