Tag: new cold war

Russia Resuming Cold War Behavior

President Obama belittled Mitt Romney for his prediction over the course of the 2012 campaign, Romney repeatedly called Russia “our number one geopolitical foe.”  Then came this debate confrontation.

 

Now in response to NATO’s “anti-Russia inclinations,” the Kremlin will resume its Cold War-era practice of sending long-range bombers to patrol the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific.  The flights, which will extend to the borders of U.S. territorial waters, follow a markedly more aggressive air defense posture by Russia in the eight months since it seized and annexed Ukraine’s Crimea region in March, according to European strategic analysts.

 

Newsweek reports:
“Russia has announced plans to build a drone base for military reconnaissance in a town just 420 miles off mainland Alaska and just over 300 miles off the US state’s St Lawrence Island, Russia’s state news agency reported on Thursday.”

“The command of the eastern military district in charge of the military development of the Arctic zone has moved forward with plans to form an unmanned aerial vehicle division,” Alexandr Gordeev, spokesperson for the district said.”

Hungarian leadership is now saying that it feels a kinship with Russia.  Russian speaking Latvians are leaning towards Russia. Russia does not need to be communist to stand as the opposition to western style democracy.  Mikhail Gorbachev recently warned of a renewal of the Cold War.

Barack Obama as leader of a new Cold War is very frightening.  I am looking forward to a new tough American leader.

The USA Cannot Police the World

Barack ObamaNews report in the Los Angeles Times today.

President Obama said today that he was “deeply concerned” by reports of Russian military activity in Ukraine and warned Moscow to use restraint as the former Soviet state struggles to forge a new government.
“Any violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity would be deeply destabilizing,” Obama said in a statement from the White House. Such a move would be a “profound interference in matters that must be determined by the Ukrainian people.”
Obama’s remarks followed a day in which tensions mounted between the new Western-aligned government in the capital of Kiev and the Russian-speaking majority in the Ukrainian province of Crimea.

The USA has no economic interest in Ukraine. Of course we all feel sad for the Syrians, Iranians, North Koreans, and Ukranians.  We simply are exhausted.  Afghans may be to blame.  We are there to help them develop a free an independent society.  The problem is they don’t want our way of life. Our ‘manifest destiny’ idea that our way is the right way for societies to function and it has been handed down by God is our delusion.

The United States cannot police the world.  We lack the army, the money, and Americans have no appetite for new interventions this year.  That may become a long term attitude.  It is a consequence of our two most recent foreign involvements.  You know, Iraq and Afghanistan.  Neither of those efforts went as projected.  We spent millions, we lost lives, we saw thousands return home with permanent injuries with no success.  In fact the opposite has occurred.  More people and countries around the world either hate or intensely dislike the USA.

Much of the rest of the world does not accept our ideas.  President Obama’s comments about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is more for domestic consumption than about stopping their action.

The exception is our war hawks.  They would have us involved in Syria, confronting Iran, and now confronting Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

It Looks like another “cold war.”