It took a while for me to figure out how Obama kept drawing red lines that other countries wouldn’t respect.
But now it all seems clear to me: Obama’s using all of the government’s supply of the color red on the deficit. Hence there’s no red left for the lines he draws in foreign policy.
As reports continue to circulate of armed gunman taking over public property in Ukraine– gunmen that are likely under the control of the Russian government– another of Obama’s red lines that wasn’t has been crossed.
“Armed men seized the regional government headquarters and parliament building in Crimea on Thursday and raised the Russian flag,” says our own NightWatch. “Reports on the number of men ranged from 60 to 120. Police made no move to remove them.”
This has been followed up by seizure of airports in Crimea. Crimea, a peninsula that juts out into the Black Sea and therefore affords Russia some access to the Mediterranean, is supposedly an independent republic that’s part of Ukraine.
“This crisis affords President Putin and Russia the best opportunity since the collapse of the Soviet Union for recovering control of Crimea,” concludes NightWatch.
You might remember that Russia engineered the same type of coup in the Republic of Georgia in 2008 when they essentially annexed parts of Georgia known as South Ossetia and Abkhazia as a result of a 5-day war after a Russian invasion.
We’ll call that war the first manifestation of the Obama Wars that have broken out in the wake of his weakness, er, election.
Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, South Ossetia and Ukraine. I don’t know what dictators would do without ethnic minorities.
Mexico anyone?
I’m not saying that Obama is a coward, but if Caesar crossed the Rubicon while Obama was in Rome, the One would schedule a tee time.
Obama wanted to be remembered for something “big” that he accomplished.
Losing the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe certainly qualifies.
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