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Originally Posted by SilberUrS6
It's a nice backpedal. I like it.
But look at this - more comparisons to late 1930's central Europe. And the bobbleheads lap it up.
The fools that think that somehow more military presence in eastern Europe means anything. Or that talking (or lack thereof) makes any damn difference.
The empty-headed repetition of blog talking points is particularly pathetic.
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There was no back pedal in ones estimation. From Post 108 you were being set up..pick apart my posting and you can figure it out.
Simply put the US should put the missile defense system back into Poland and the Czech Republic...We unilaterally took it out so we can unilaterally can put it back.. The Obama gambit of trying to mollify Putin did not work, and if anything has exacerbated the situation as it has shown weakness to a Great White.
The Great White has been embolden by our President's misguided notions of his powers of persuasion. Couple that with the growing decline of the American hegemony due to deficit and debt and you come up with a Putin who is going to fill the power vacuum
If Putin is allowed to grow stronger, and he will bite off a piece at a time, each time growing a bit stronger and bolder. Eventually there may come a day when Europe itself might fall under his sphere of influence. So it would be far less costly to nip him in the bud now rather than later.
The USA is NOT impotent as it has far greater assets and prestige around the globe if only the leadership had the will to use them. President Obama is risk adverse because risk involves emotion and Obama shuns emotion (remember he likes to be cool calm and collected, dispassionate in decision making. When making decisions there is no such thing as being dispassionate as decisions mean taking risk which means an uncertainty which creates emotion. Thus Obama is a poor CIC. Now we are seeing it in full bloom.