toxicmedia
Gold Member
The right needs guys like you to think a different reaction by a Republican might have created idfferent results, and that's not the case.You excuse a failed non-leader obama. He even injects his misperceptions of American racism into speeches made abroad. If you can't even admit that obama is the apologist he is then don't waste my time. You're a shill.He hasn't once blamed America for causing conflicts. You're imagining more than one Cairo speech, and misinterpetuing that one.Obama is a weak non-leader who has disdain for the military. He has repeatedly blamed his own country (the US, that is) for causing conflicts that we truly respond to. That is a sign of opportunity for an aggressor like Putin.IMO, Putin was completely unaffected by what Obama did, or didn't do.Bush was at the disadvantage of not having a Georgia issue as a precedent. Obama had that warning and still presented no tangible, credible deterrent. For Bush it was 'fool me once'. For obama it was 'fool me twice'. Shame on obama. His lack of leadership and weak foreign policy skills emboldened Putin.Okay, I see what you're saying, Bush did steam a Navy into the Black Sea, and airlift Georgian troops around, that's something.
As for the differences between Georgia and Crimea...
The Georgian conflict was to bring back 2 break away regions in Gerogia. There are no break away regions in Crimea. They're pretty much Russians. I'm not defending Putin...but in any event, what Bush did, and what Obama did, had zero net effect on the outcomes.
At this point I'd like to ask you another question.
Is there anything either Bush or Obama could have done to affect the outcomes of Georgia and Crimea?...if not...who care what either did. It seems to me a waste of assets
Putin would have been just as unaffected by Bush, or any other President, with any other variable of involvement, short of attacking Russian troops.
When the right has no solid criticism of foreign policy they fall back on vague terms like "poor leadership" "leading from behind" or "emboldened" so and so.......
This is meaningless back seat poltical driving
If you don't see that weakness you're exposing your own obama partisanship.
Putin wouldn't have changed his approach no matter who was President.
The right needs guys like you to think a different reaction by a Republican might have created idfferent results, and that's not the case.
I rest my case