Putin Upends Barack Obama’s New World Order by John Kinsellagh
The Bear on Aug 23 2008 at 8:23 am | Filed under: National Defense
The Russian invasion of Georgia is a singularly auspicious event because it has, in an instant, shattered the illusion upon which the world view of Barack Obama and his fellow European “world citizens” is predicated. The next time Russia seeks to expand its sphere of influence and threatens another democratic nation, how receptive then will the previously rapturous crowds of a disarmed Europe be to the giddy nonsense proselytized by Barack Obama just three short weeks ago in Berlin?
When the consequences of a rapacious Russian foreign policy threatening their natural gas and oil lifelines are revealed to the slumbering Europeans, will they find solace and comfort in the lofty rhetoric of Obama calling for tearing down walls and bringing peoples everywhere together?
As evidenced by his initial reaction to the crisis, the closeness in time between his speech in Berlin and the Russian assault must have been spectacularly jarring for the Chosen One, for, there is no coherent nor strategically viable response in his soft power playbook for the naked geo-political power play effected by a resurgent Russia. Obama’s “refined” response to the Russian blitz was simply a tiresome recitation of the default position of the American Left for every international crisis both big and small: call the U.N.
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…the next crisis will foster a diminution in the anti-American rhetoric that has been so prevalent on the Continent. For, many will come to realize that it is useful to have an ally in the United States….