Apologies to the late Ronald Regan.
If I were a megalomaniacal, dictatorial Leader like say Vladimir Putin, I would walk into Ukraine and take it over and then plan my next victim, all in the knowledge that the West will do absolutely zilch to resist.
Putin believes that the capitulation of the USSR in the 1980s was one of the world’s greatest tragedies and he would like nothing better than to head up its re-establishment – walls and all.
In the face of this, Obama is a paper tiger, as I have pointed out since the beginning of his Presidency when he went out of his way to apologize to the Muslim World for the military actions of his home country. All, despite the effort by the USA, to bring peace and protection to the free world.
His pandering continued until a much more glaring example of Obama’s ineptitude in the case of Syria and his continually drawn ‘Red Lines’ in the sand – allowing Syria to descend in a civil war hell which is ongoing today.
And now Ukraine.
Not only does Obama lack the stomach to do what is needed – comparable I believe to the Young Trudeau, he has also reduced the size of America’s Army to pre-WW 2 levels.
And this dear reader is for two main reasons – other than in regard to his lack of intestinal fortitude: first, the States, as I continually point out, is flat dead broke; and second, even in the face of bankruptcy, Obama is committed to spending tens of trillions of dollars on ineffective social programs that only serve to make dependents out of more and more Americans.
In view of this, I have said the time has come for NATO and its member countries to pick up the slack and in that regard – it should move its troops into place beside Ukraine’s forces. This would ensure that Putin would not advance beyond the Black Sea and in so doing would save most of Ukraine from the heel of the dictator. We have the relatively recent example of when we failed to take such action – Germany invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938.
NATO troops could stay in place until relieved by UN troops with the hope that Russia would eventually pull out its troops from Eastern Ukraine.
You might well say that this latter scenario is most unlikely, and you would be correct – so NATO stays put for as long as it takes.
But do not hold your breath in anticipation that truth, honour etc will prevail. Europe needs Russian gas and oil and is most unlikely to rock the Russian boat.
So dear Mr. Putin, a clear field to you. Can’t wait to see where your next wall goes up.
As I see it…
‘K.D. Galagher’
