Obama’s Russia Policy: Submission
Four years ago, Hillary Clinton offered a “reset button” to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Among countries vulnerable to and apprehensive of Russia, this was considered an American submission.
As a sign of goodwill by the Obama administration and to prove an openness to negotiate, the U.S. gave up the anti-missile bases in Poland. This act betrayed Eastern European allies who have lived under Russian threats and domination. Three years later, President Obama made another promise over an open microphone to Russian President Medvedev, offereing yet more unilateral policy resetting after his reelection.
The Obama administration ignored the uprising by (and calls for help from) the people of Iran, but responded to the Libyans’ request to help remove Gaddafi.
The administration jumped at the opportunity to “rescue” the people of Egypt, but has stayed non-committal at best regarding the uprising of the Syrian people.
It seems that the Obama administration is relinquishing the people of Iran and Syria to Russian domination.
While the Obama administration has been resetting and retreating, Russia has kept the same adversarial stance, and has continued to vote against the U.S. at the UN and elsewhere. Yet President Obama does not recognize Russia as an adversarial aggressor. During the presidential debates, he made a remark against his opponent: “After all, you don’t call Russia our number one enemy — and not al-Qaeda — unless you’re still stuck in a Cold War time warp.”
Although the recorded history of the 20th century is rife with disinformation and misrepresentation, we are now able to conduct research and investigate matters and facts about Russia and the Cold War. In reality, the Cold War was not about Russian communism and American capitalism — it was about Russia drawing the line in the sand for a new, emerging superpower to secure its domination of what was left of the defenseless Middle East and North Africa. (English historian Christopher Andrew and former KGB archivist Vladimir Mitrokhin verify this in The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB & The Battle for the Third World.)
The Cold War, for America, was in reality about preventing Russia from continuing to take lands that did not belong to it. And the United States was the power able to stop the Russian domination of the Persian Gulf through the annexation of Iran at the end of World War Two.
It would be an error to believe that because the specter of Communism has been lifted from Russia, the leadership does not still have the intent of dominating as much of the world as they can.
Soviet Communism ended in the 1980s, but the Cold War did not. In 1947, President Truman forced the Russians out of Iran after a hundred years of domination, but in 1979 President Carter’s naïve foreign policies handed Iran back to the Russians.
For the last 33 years, Russians have been propelling the Iranian regime to follow their policies. The alliance between Russia’s plutocracy (whether it be Czarist Russia or the Russian Federation) and the Iranian clergy exists on a host of matters; standing against the United States is a mutually beneficial factor.
Russia has used the Iranian regime and money to establish Hezbollah in Lebanon and to support and arm the Palestinians, specifically Hamas, against Israel. Does that not remind one of Cold War tactics?
The Iranian regime is using Russian weapons to keep Bashar Assad in power. After all, Syria has been a Russian satellite ally since Assad’s father was set up and supported by the KGB during the Iron Curtain era. Russia continues the Cold War against America by proxy.
Unlike President Obama who wants to be loved and popular among certain powerful governments and groups, Putin does not feel the need to be loved — he wants to be feared and respected. Though American presidents like Carter and Obama have betrayed American friends, Putin stands by the regimes that Russia has helped set up, no matter who they are.
Russia’s president is more concerned about power and control than his image and approval in the global public opinion. Putin’s focus remains firmly on his own modus operandi and a foreign policy of domination. Russian disrespect for the sovereignty of others and their indifference to international opinion have been proven time and again.
Terrorist gangs like Khomeinists and al-Qaeda come and go, but Russia should remain a concern, as not only the enemy of the U.S. but as an enemy to the peoples of the neighboring countries who look to America for protection.
We lost any chance of making peace with the Russians when we bombed the Serbs. It was the equivalent of them bombing Mexico over the mistreatment of the Maya.
But regardless, the best way to “combat” Russia is to work on improving our country, not spend so much time minding other people’s business, as if we don’t have lots of problems (and way too much government) here at home.
You’ve got that right. We will not make any friends anywhere in the world by continuing with our policy of going to war on behalf of Muslim interests every chance we get.
It is most definately not the equivalent of Russia bombing Mexico. Serbia and the other Balkan countries are of deep and historic security interest to many other nations: Germany, Greece, Hungary, Austria, Turkey, Italy, Bulgaria and others. Milosevic’s expansionist and genocidal campaign was a threat to the peace of all of Europe, in a way that Mexico and its Mayans is not to any of its neighbors.
The Radical-in-Chief’s plan is more than submission. It is lock-step and heart felt, at least his ‘red’ side is.
To understand the POTUS is to enter into his looking glass – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/10/05/if-it-looks-like-a-socialistmarxistcommunist-plan-it-is-peekingpeeling-back-into-obamas-looking-glass-his-surrogates-too-their-bomblets-waiting-to-explode-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
But make no mistake. The above in no way obviates his ‘green’ side, as he implants Muslim Brotherhood operatives all over Washington and throughout Mid East dictatorships (ain’t a democrat among them) and beyond.
Could this be what Obama was hinting in that open mike video in which he promised that “after the election I’ll have more flexibiity”? As further development in his Hope to Change, fundamentally transform, the USA, of which he and Michelle “are ashamed”?
Wow!
Putin’s ancestor is Mikhail of Tver declared a saint by the Russian Orthodox sins. I pray to this saint to help his son’s son become holy but Vladimir at age 60 i suspect sins of youth have been nipped in the bud and the sins of the cranky and lack of patience toward the rif raf maybe booming
Welcome Back, Russian Bear. We missed you
O M G you are forcing me to defend santa-bama! Our power has allowed Europe to become a Giant Disneyland for far too long.phoney-baloney defensive pacs that would be as flaccid as a 90 year old man if it weren’t for us.Truth be told i am the proud father of 5 sons and they have better things to do than defend the French 3 hour lunch break!True,Putin has Napoleonic dreams of glory,China covets all of Africa and North Korea is the spark on a short chain to assassinating another Archduke Ferdinand and the pawn to set things in motion,but for me,im cashing in my chips and walking away from your poker game!
Rubbish. Putin is blocking the installation of an Islamist regime in Syria. He is doing us a favor. The morons baying for the blood of the Ba’athists in Syria don’t seem to grasp the fact that a secular, socialist Syria under Russia’s thumb is less likely to create trouble for its religious minorities and neighbors. Similarly, an Iran under Russia’s thumb is less likely to get stupid on foreign policy beyond a reasonable limit.
So what does the poster suggest our policy towards Russia should be? Attack Russia? Trade sanctions? Bare our teeth and speak loudly?
Our policy toward Russia should be that we form an alliance with Russia against the forces of Islamic expansionism.
Juvenile article and childlike reasoning.
Russia must act in America’s best interests or be considered an enemy.
Russia’s must place its own interests after American interests.
Unlike any other country, Russia can retaliate. Perhaps a Russia policy should be based in reality and facts not ideology and wishful thinking.
You misrepresent the point of the article. It is precisely that Russia’s interests are in opposition to our interests, and that they have been – and continue to be – aggressive in the pursuit of their interests, and our policy must be based in “reality and facts not ideology and wishful thinking,” but rather in the protection of our own interests. As for Russia’s ability to retaliate, though Russia is a nuclear state, it does not otherwise have the military infrastructure to project power very far beyond its own borders, at least not in the face of a powerful and determined adversary.
Bigfoot,
The examples given in this article are truly child like, rescuing the people of Egypt? Abandoning Iran and Syria?
The “spectre of communism”? Russia has for most of its history been ruled by Totalitarians from the Tsar, to the communists, to Putin. Nothing new there, but lets just throw in the “communist” buzz word.
Was it really all that smart to send the US Coast Guard to Georgia during the Russian invasion. What was the USGC doing there in the first place?
Russia may or may not be able to project power to far from home. But should the tanks roll into “The Stan’s again” do you really believe America will get into a hot war with Russia over it? Is it sensible to encourage Russia’s neighbours to provoke Russia, when we all know that no US soldiers will be coming to protect them when Russian retaliation and troops start coming over the border.
Much better to acknowledge that the Russian leadership likes to yank the US’s chain, and act and response appropriately. We should be grateful that thanks to Russian and Chinese actions (or inaction) no US soldiers are dying trying to Liberate Syria (on behalf of the Jihadi’s) or worse Iran.
beg to differ with author statement that: ” It would be an error to believe that because the specter of Communism has been lifted from Russia, the leadership does not still have the intent of dominating as much of the world as they can.”
IMHO Russia will have its hands full in the future with dealin with its next door neighbor: China