"Maybe if the 3 million Republican voters who chose to stay home in 2012 came out and instead voted for Romney, we would not have this Russian mess right now. Just saying..."
I remember not long after the Soviet Union fell apart, some of the hard liners had a difficult time accepting what had just happened. The United States was optimistic that a true reformer would rise from the ashes of the Soviet Union, and be an honest broker we could deal with. The Communist government had left the Russian economy in tatters. The country was ripe for reform. We were willing to help. We were going to help Russia become a free trader. Heck, for a while there was even talk about this former Warsaw nation becoming a member of NATO.
Well, old habits die hard. One of the KGB hardliners, was not impressed with Brezhnev, Yeltsin, or any of the other so called Russian leaders. This former KGB officer took what happened to his beloved Soviet empire very personally. So Vladimir Putin became a chameleon. His heart was still a hard liner, but his actions were that of a reformer.
He rose to power and become the President of Russia. How good was he? He fooled everyone. He fooled President Bush (43), and fooled him good. Remember that famous saying? George Bush saying, "I have peered into his soul". And what did you see there President Bush? Because many of us right now are wondering if this man has a soul. The charade is over. The game is over. He is out to right this horrible wrong which happened to the Soviet empire in the 1980's.
Then for the eight years we had "Pajama Boy", the Russians had Rambo. While Obama decided unilaterally to "beat our swords into plow shares", Putin thought it would be fun to develop a nuke using scramjet technology which could travel at 10 times the speed of sound.
Putin has shown us in his Ukrainian adventure, that he is nobody to mess with. Expansionism is in his world vision. And some of the lethal crap that the Soviets developed in the 70's and 80's? Oh, he still has his hands on it. Gave it a trial run over in the UK. This nerve agent he unleashed over there, is more deadly than VX nerve gas. In fact, it is preferred by the sadists, as there is no known cure for it once exposed. Death is very slow, and very painful.
Where do we go from here? BTW - the world is a mess right now. In the 8 year coma we all went through during Obama, China became a super power, Russia is back into the "next gen" Cold War, and Iran is just itching for a fight. Did I mention North Korea? Up until the Olympics, the United States was being threatened by them on almost a daily basis.
Not a huge Romney fan, I will say this. During the debates in 2012 with Obama, he had it right. Russia is our biggest threat. And even though "Pajama Boy" made fun of him during that event, Mitt was wise beyond his years.
Maybe if the 3 million Republican voters who chose to stay home in 2012 came out and instead voted for Romney, we would not have this Russian mess right now. Just saying...
Official Moscow can try to insist that its last chemical weapons were destroyed last year.
ReplyDeleteIt can also try a tactic it developed in Syria, claiming the use of the chemical was a false flag operation (perhaps blaming Ukraine, as some commentators on Russian state TV have already said).
Both these lines of defense, however, are likely to grow less credible as the British investigation progresses, especially if it's established with reasonable certainty that the nerve agent could only have been deployed by someone linked to the Russian government.
No country (except the 45 led US) will condone the use of chemical weapons, whatever the economic consequences of a harsh sanction regime.
He is too tied to Russian influence to rock that boat.
Nicky Haley better shut her mouth too, if she wants to remain in 45's good graces.
At a UN Security Council meeting she said, "This is a defining moment, One member stands accused of using a chemical weapon on the sovereign soil of another. The credibility of this council will not survive if we fail to hold Russia to account."
So 45 is going to allow the UN Security Council to be compromised by failing to support any action against his friends.
I am so ashamed of and embarrassed by the US.
While Rome burns, 45 is fiddling with the composition of his cabinet.
And the features of his necessary wall. Even he said the current barbed wire rusted fence is 95-96 percent effective and the multi-million dollar wall will raise that to 99%. One of his donors will be getting the bid on this boondoggle.
Calling the result “close but no cigar,” Vladimir Putin has conceded defeat in Tuesday night’s special congressional election in Pennsylvania.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking to reporters at the Kremlin, Putin thanked the many Russian campaign workers who tried but failed to propel the Republican candidate, Rick Saccone, into the winner’s circle.
But Putin was excited by his buddies choices for two positions.
The poorly educated and oft wrong on the economy, Larry Kudlow recommended buying stocks in September 2008, said invading Iraq in 2002 would boost the economy and denied the existence of the housing bubble in 2005. Just what Putin ordered for the American economy.
And the new Secretary of State, following the Tillerson model, has never been a diplomat, either by profession or temperament.
The noted Islamaphobe will fit right in with an administration whose primary doctrine is the "Manifest Destiny" of rich white folk.