Barack Obama has sold this country down the river. He reflects the views of his idiotic liberal supporters that if we, as a country, are just “nice” enough, we will be loved and respected by all the other countries. That is not how geopolitics works, and as the only legitimate super power, we have a large bulls-eye painted on our back. There are political points for taking on the “big dog in the neighborhood,” and so countries as unlikely as Venezuela will challenge the U.S. in order to gain international stature.
Ronald Reagan knew that it was better to be respected than loved in this situation, and there was very little of “tickling the dragons tail” while he was in office because other countries were not quite sure how strong a response they would elicit if they stepped over the line. Fear can be a tremendous motivator.
In addition to Barack Obama showing that he, and by reflection the U.S., is a paper tiger, Russia is showing new signs of aggressiveness and strength as Putin works to restore the image and stature of Russia and to remake the old Soviet Union. In the 2012 presidential election, Obama laughed and mocked Romney when he suggested that Russia was our most dangerous and immediate foe, but it turns out that Mitt was right. Russia is once again taking on the United States and playing chicken to see just how far she can go. In the latest interaction, the game was quite dangerous and could easily have led to a number of deaths.
Read about recent aggressive Russian maneuvers, page 2:
Shoot a couple down they won’t think it’s fun anymore
Pretty sure it would start a war… but I guess that doesn’t concern you when you’re above “fighting age” and I’m fairly confident that if Russia shot one of ours down… I seriously doubt we would sit back and think.. “yeah, better not do that again”
What are you on?
American ships were in the Baltic sea, basically adjacent to Russia… would be similar to Russian war ships in the Gulf of Mexico.. but we don’t like to look at things like that, because we have this double. Standard entitlement that we can do as we please and how dare anyone do what we would do to someone else..lol
And people thought Jimmy Carter was bad! LOL
Yep, they’re just doing because they KNOW Obama will give them the stand down command because of what he pulled with our 10 soldiers on that boat overtake recently back in what February?!
The Russians are still pissed about Tom Cruise and the movie “Top Gun “…
This is why we need Trump!!!!
There ya go..I am sure we were locked on….There may have been a little sweet running down the back of some of ours, But it wasn’t flowing down a yellow streak..
Exactly Joshua. That’s my point. I had to word it “delicately” to not enflame the double standard people you speak of.