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Putin is now building new aircraft and Naval ships. These aircraft and ships aren't non capable platforms unless you are a dolt.
To use Georgia as the whole deal is foolish.
Not much Russian naval activity in eastern Ukraine.
There last two ships were build in France. They can't get them until the sanctions are lifted. The only aircraft they have on the table that comes close to the F-35 is 10 years into the future. When Putin started his nonsense of renewing cold war tactics of threatening flyby's and challenging NATO border areas, Obama answered with a new contract for 29 additional F-35's, some of which will be sold to NATO countries. He ***** slapped Putin with a weapons escalation.
The only person Obama's probably *****-slapped is is his. You seem to think that 2 assualt ships and 29 F-35s are worth the Crimea.
Camp, you are the emobiment of the saw that a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is very much like your droning endlessly about Iran-Contra as regards Reagan, easily the most successful president of the modern age.Anyway you spin it, Putin has taken the Crimea and a substantial art of eastern Ukraine with few sanctions. Obama simply cannot hold his own against a adversary of substance. I don't care for Putin politically, but he is a much more consequential leader than Obama.
Not a whole heck of a lot of value to the Black Sea or a fleet stuck inside of it. Stuck inside of it being key. The entire fleet is within easy range of NATO air assets, including cruise missiles. Look at the map. They are practically a land locked Navy. They need permission to navigate through NATO territory.
As far as your God Reagan goes, the claims of him tearing down the USSR has become even less relevant now that it is realized he only gets credit for helping to tear down a symbol. Tho old Soviet Union seems to be still alive and the cold war never really ended. It only went into hibernation. The bear has been awakened.