Well…if you were to listen to the media in this country, you would think that every move from every country against the Russian invasion of Ukraine just happened out of thin air with no work at all by anybody. I think there is such a thing as a lie by omission where they are purposely not reporting on all of the work the Joe Biden and his administration have done to herd these cats into the solid wall of opposition to Putin that we see reported every day…do you think that anyone else could have gotten everyone on the same page as Joe has done? Nope, it has been a masterful exercise in listening to and respecting our allies enough so they feel they have a real say in what is happening…could you imagine what would have happened if trump was still running the show? Not one of our allies would event take his phone calls let alone put the full force of their countries into getting weapons into Ukrainian hands and then signing on to the coordinated sanctions regime that is cratering the Russian economy and causing the ruble to be worth basically nothing…could you imagine idiot boy getting the Swiss to abandon their neutrality and levy their own sanctions against Russia? Or getting Sweden and Finland close to joining NATO? Never would have happened…and the idiot would have used this opportunity to bad mouth and try to destroy NATO not strengthen it as Joe has done. Joe’s work has been the most masterful job of diplomacy in my lifetime and will result in Putin losing everything…and not a damn day too soon…geez…
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Diplomacy works…again…
Well…I am kind of laughing at the fits that right has been throwing over the Ukraine unrest calling Obama weak and howling for some show of military force to try to intimidate Putin into leaving Ukraine alone and not invading….and the comparisons of Obama to Putin…that Putin is a strong leader since he will not hesitate to use military force…and that Obama looks weak since he prefers to use all of the diplomatic tools in the toolbox first; leaving military action as a last resort (which, by the way, has been US foreign policy since the country was founded)… yadda, yadda. With the events of the past few days, and the fact that Putin has called his troops back to their bases defusing the situation somewhat in response to diplomatic pressure, we see that the right is wrong…again..or should I say as always? Diplomacy done right works in most cases…some thing that the chickenhawks on the right just don’t want to hear….where is the profit for their buddies if there is no more war? What I want to see now is Palin, Graham, and the rest of these idiots to apologize for their attempted undermining of our foreign policy for political reasons…and to admit that they don’t know what the hell they are talking about…but, facts don’t matter to the right so I guess I shouldn’t hold my breath…geez….
What’s wrong with diplomacy?
Well…have been thinking about cleaning my bathroom but this looked easier so I’ll give this a try…one of the questions that I have with this whole Syria nonsense is “what’s wrong with diplomacy?” When did our entire foreign policy devolve into using military force for everything? What is wrong with talking to the world about it and trying to find a diplomatic solution? We used to do a good bit of “horse trading” to get what we want with the use of the military being the last resort…I think it would be a good idea to try that for a while and not be in such a hurry to bomb everything in sight…it’s like the old saying ” when you are a hammer, everything you see is a nail”…..so, let’s talk for a while…Syria isn’t going anywhere….geez…