When questioned by a reporter yesterday in Europe, Obama
answered that he considers Russia a regional power. It is obvious, that our great president is not a student of
history. Germany under Hitler was just
a regional power and Japan was just a regional power. But we know how those regional powers worked out.
Now Russia has designs on other Baltic
countries and under Putin who wants to re-establish the former Soviet Union and
take all those countries under the Russian umbrella that they occupied after
WWII and refused to leave until they ran into President Reagan and was
outwitted on the world stage and eventually collapsed. But, Putin has not forgotten that
embarrassment, as he sees it, and wants to restore Russia to a world power and
be the threat to the world again and use intimidating tactics they were known
for. With our fearless leader in the
White House, Putin realizes now is the time to get whatever he wants and has
until the 2016 election to accomplish his dream.
The big question that President Obama has not answered is what
will NATO do when Putin invades another NATO country. Putin is pushing the envelope and when and until he is met with a
severe threat of force that he can actually see over the Obama rhetoric that he
only laughs at, he will continue down the path of conquering the former
satellite countries. Nobody wants
another military conflict, but sometimes the threat that such tactics that
Putin is implementing will be met with military force, Putin will continue his
actions. War is not necessary, but when
it become obvious that Putin's actions will result in military conflict, he will rethink his strategy. Russia cannot
withstand a non-nuclear conflict with the west and he knows that, but as long
as the west shows weakness, he will continue his aggression.
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