n/t

I have some questions for you.

Drop me a line at

Gohan079. It’s a yahoo address.

Thanks.

Hopefully, the “alternative” one was filed away somewhere and will be found by future historians.

It was never written and it never will be, now.

Before I left my post in the PACCOM theater a few years ago we were beginning to notice a great deal of traffic concerning Russia. They are in essence, surging. The investments into their Navy and Air Force are astounding when considering proportionality and threats to the Russian Federation. Their military is the most active arm of their diplomacy than their foreign officer corps (subtle nod to the SVR).

What does that mean? Russia sees its military as a means to achieve diplomatic ends versus talking at a table. A worry I have is that Dear Leader Obama will not recognize this and will mistake Russia’s very real military deployments for shear bluster. The analogy of Putin and his Puppet of modern day Ptyor the Great is another great way to sizing it up. There is a dearth of patriotism in certain Russian circles because they recognize their nation is dying and relies on two sectors for survival: energy export/exploitation (namely petroleum) and weapons sales.

They are aggressively moving into South America again via the vassals of Chavez and Raul Castro. Vassals? Yes. Russia is working its way into being able to be a hidden hand behind many of the moves by these two nations and the United States is at a disadvantage.

Great post Mr. Skanderbeg!

P.S: Russian activity in South America:

Russian Navy to Venezuela

Russian Arms Sales in 2006

Russian bombers in Cuba?

“I saw what happened in Iraq, and I was afraid.”

Muammar Quadaffi, when asked why he gave up his WMD program, less than two months after OIF.

“I saw what happened in America on Tuesday, and I just can’t stop laughing!”

Dmitri Medvedev, sometime this week.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: You can’t push me around, Putin!

PUTIN: Oh, but I think I can.

OBAMA: You’re underestimating me. I can be tough tough tough!

PUTIN: Prove it.

May God keep and protect the freedom-loving people of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Georgia, Ukraine and Poland.

For, I fear that Obama will not.

I think… President Obama is going to have little time to deal with much of anything but international crises for awhile. I’d almost rather he screw up the economy than weaken us internationally but…

The economy we can fix later after we boot him out of office. It will be far more difficult to repair the damage done with international relations.

Our only real chance of easing into a new Cold War is through NATO. We’re not capable of doing it unilaterally because of the incoming President. But Germany, France, the UK, Italy, and the newest members of NATO along the Baltic Sea, and the rest of the old Warsaw Pact can put up a strong diplomatic front and potentially forestall Russian moves.

However, Russia holds a trump card over Europe: energy. Natural gas, petroleum, and their associated by products are piped from Russia daily and as winter comes we’re going to see something akin to the 2006 Ukrainian natural gas crisis as President Bush is unlikely to back down to Russian demands but Putin and Medvedev know Obama will be in during mid-winter.

There is a coming strategic fight that we have to be prepared for where we may have to stand up or sacrifice a new ally. This gets into my entry the other day:

Obama will be forced to be overly tough in order to prevent a conflict but will cave or overstep his bounds.

Governing is an adult business. The world is a busy and tough place that requires a lot of resources and energy.

I hope nothing bad happen, but I hope that a series of such crisis:

1) Limits the time and resources that Obama and the Dems can allocate towards domestic progressive agenda items.

2) Reminds the electorate of “realpolitik” and frivilousness and utopianism of modern liberal foreign policy

3) Makes national security issue for 2010 and 2012.

All I gotta say now is “Gird Your Loins”

We have a President with, shall we say…”father issues”. And a Russian President with a Peter The Great Complex.

Lovely. Just lovely.

Joe Biden, Prophet.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

---

Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

I agree that The Great Leader will have his hands full. However, as we have seen from the election, international affairs don’t seem to bother Barry’s supporters. The big issue is going to be do the American people have the will to stand up and fight to keep America the world’s superpower, or will they simply let it fade away much like all the great nations have at some point?
I have a bad feeling that most of the world feels like American has been pacified, and now is the time to take advantage of it.

Sadly, I feel that Barry will keep telling people what they want to hear, and the media will simply repeat it. Anything negative that happens will be blamed on the Bush administration. And the majority of the public will be happy just because Barry is promising to fill their gas tanks and give them a raise.

The real danger with Barry is what he’ll do behind the scenes. How many people know that Clinton sold sensitive missile technology to China? And that he changed trade laws to do it? Not many. Is it any wonder that China owns a massive amount of our debt? I fear that Barry and his “team” will sell out America for a quick buck, so they can take credit for a growing economy. The problem with Barry is that his administration either doesn’t care, and know how to keep America a powerful nation. I also fear that many people associated with Barry want to destroy American superiority in the name of fairness.

We are at a crossroads in America. However, we have to keep Barry’s machine in check. That means actively calling our representitives in government, and using the internet the same way Barry did. We have to spread the word that Barry is bad for America, and we have to be able to back it up with facts, and truths.

If so, when can we expect to see tensions between the Ukraine and Russia flare up? In the immediate future? Around 2012-2015 when they’ll presumably start to renegotiate the deal?

…I was 4 but my father was in the Army and on full alert.
I do remember him gearing up and my mother took a few photos. Years later I remember my dad saying that the military was ready to go in and just sink Cuba. He said they had every B-52 in the south on the runways ready to go. Hell, we may get our chance to pucker up as well.

like to think of him as another JFK. Remembering the Kruschev-Kennedy confrontations of 1961-62, so does Putin.

he WILL make America the bad guy. There is no other way to see it. We pushed our allies so hard on missille defense when it was not really a big issue here. Canada’s Harper stuck his neck out and suffered politically, the Poles have put their necks in the guillotine, and now the Russians want to cover all their soil with short range missiles.

If Obama pulls out on Missile defense after our allies bought in under major duress, then we will be the bad guy. People will no longer trust the USA, they will no longer believe in continuity of foreign policy. If Obama backs down on missile defense our good name will be in shatters and our friends will be in danger.

I hope everyone is following this, it is the most dangerous issue we face at this point. This issue should be front paged until Obama stands by our allies, the ones we browbeated to get this.

cowardly obama

I know there are new links, with even the Poles backing down saying Obama did not promise anything. But anyway you slice it, we are screwing our friends and emboldening our enemies.

From a previous comment:

Snip…

Do any of these ring a bell?

• Israel, Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Gaza.
• Russia, Poland, Georgia and Ukraine.
• China, North Korea, Taiwan and Indonesia.
• Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
• Columbia, Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.

What do they portend for our national security and regional interests?

Are you comfortable with Obama’s position on these critical national security issues?

Snip…

To expand on that a bit more:

We don’t really know Obama’s position regarding any of those potentially critical regions. He has not defined his national security policy, nor has he indicated how he will protect our national security interests in those regions.

What is becoming increasingly apparent with each passing day: Our adversaries believe that they will be negotiating from a position of strength and dictating the terms during an Obama Administration.

Clearly, Putin doesn’t respect Obama, because the KGB doesn’t respect weakness.

And, the Russians are not alone in that respect.

First there’s Bin Laden’s latest bile. Now we learn Putin has a Peter-the-Great complex. You know, Peter the first Emperor of Russia, founder of St. Petersburg? Blech. Maybe it’s time to get into the nuclear fallout shelter business again.

…Perhaps Russia’s fits over Georgia, the Crimea, etc. should be seen as last breaths from a dying monster? You did mention that their demographics weren’t looking too good, at least from the birth rates side of the equation. You think that perhaps Putin, Medvedev & Co. realize this and say “one more for old time’s sake”?