By John Lillpop ——Bio and Archives--March 1, 2014
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U.S. President Barack Obama didn't speak very long at the White House on Friday, but his message was clear: Russia should not use military force to change the fate of Ukraine. "The United States will stand with the international community in affirming that there will be costs for any military intervention in Ukraine," Obama said.Hmmm. Interesting parsing of words. Note that The One talked of ‘standing with the international community,’ rather than asserting America’s commitment to combating evil doers outright! . It’s classic Obama-speak which translates into sweet double talk with no mention of a big stick. Predictably, Vladimir Putin did not appear frightened or concerned by Obama’s puny threat. As reported:
As Russian-backed armed forces effectively seized control of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula on Saturday, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia requested that the Russian Senate authorize him to use military force in Ukraine. Mr. Putin’s request, largely a formality, signaled publicly for the first time the Kremlin’s readiness to intervene militarily in Ukraine, and it served as a blunt response to President Obama, who just hours earlier pointedly warned Russia to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty. Even as Mr. Putin submitted his request to the Senate, formally called the Federation Council, it was clear that forces allied with Moscow were largely in control of the disputed peninsula. Just a few hours earlier on Saturday morning, the newly installed, pro-Russia prime minister of Crimea declared that he had sole control over the military and the police in the disputed peninsula and he appealed to Mr. Putin for help in safeguarding the region. The prime minister, Sergei Aksyonov, also said a public referendum on independence would be held on March 30. On a day of frayed nerves and set-piece political appeals that recalled ethnic conflicts of past decades in the former Soviet bloc — from the Balkans to the Caucasus — pro-Russian forces were said to have taken control of a government building in Kharkiv, and a crowd in the center of Donetsk pulled down the blue-and-yellow Ukrainian flag and raised a Russian one.Meanwhile, Barack Obama engineers the decimation of the US military for consistency with a non-existent foreign policy. When will the American people demand that foreign policy include a “big stick” to dissuade foreign tyrants, and that the Wussies politics of the left be permanently abandoned?
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John W. Lillpop is a recovering liberal. “Clean and sober” since 1992 when last he voted for a Democrat. For years, John lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, the very liberal sanctuary city which protects, rather than prosecutes, certain favored criminals. John escaped the Bay Area in May and now lives in Pine Grove California where conservative values are still in vogue.