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Belmont Club: Complete Fiasco
The original article is good, but I wanted to emphasize this particular bit in the comments:It's a fair question and deserves a straight answer. Basically, I think the Ukraine is tactically lost. But it is lost because Obama is strategically losing. If he can repair that weakness by: 1) going all out in energy development and taking steps to facilitate the export of natural gas to Europe; 2) removing hostaged issues like the supply line to Afghanistan and the Iranian and Syrian negotiations; 3) removing the impositions which prevent economic dynamism; and 4) building advanced defense systems. Then he will win the strategic game and in due time, Putin will withdraw. Win the strategic war and you can pick up the islands at leisure. If you want more pressure, lean on Cuba or Venezuela. Venezuela for preference. If you bring more energy online Russia weakens. All of this would have been familiar to Ronald Reagan or George Kennan. None of this is rocket science. The only reason Obama can't think of it is that he believes he's too smart to learn from those old fools; that the ideas which spring to his mind, are for that reason, incomparably brilliant, even when they downright imbecilic. All you really need to get back the Ukraine is let America be America. I imagine we're about three years away from even being able to head back in the right direction. Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-04-17 |
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