Ref Ukraine

[CharlesHarris]

The current Russia-Ukraine situation is more dangerous in the long run for the US than all of the other internet doomsayer possible calamities that we hear everyday. Our President lives in a cloud of his own words and sincerely believes his rhetoric represents reality. Vladimir Putin, on the other hand, spent his formative years on the tip of the spear in the Cold War, as a officer in the KGB. He is not a politician, but a ruthless authoritarian who lives comfortably in a world of power in which he works every day for his Mother Russia, just like every successful and competent super power leader has always done.

In the US we like to think that “God is on our side" and that we were on the right side of good against evil whenever we took action. This arrogance has made us a lot of enemies, even among our supposed allies. Whether we were right or wrong at the time does not matter in the end. History shows that the US got involved, spread its influence to gain power to keep the Bolshevik bullies in check, avoided global nuclear war, bring down the old Soviet Union and the Berlin wall and my spending our blood and treasure enabled the Eurozone to develop economically, rather than militarily.

Now, the bullies on the block (China and Russia) have rebuilt their skill set. They are the mixed martial arts fighters in the ring when it comes to their economic bases, their political houses, and their militaries which are being modernized with updated training, equipment, and tactical concepts which they all learned from the US. America has become the old boxing champ who feels fine to just sit in the crowd, wear fancy clothes, smoke big cigars and watch the goings on. Modern Russia stands proudly in the ring pointing at us taunting us saying "I’m the number one! You loud mouthed jackass, if you don’t like how I fight, then step up here in the ring, buddy and I’ll cram your big cigar up your arrogant Yankee ass, you prick!."

In the days of the Cold War the Soviets were scared of us, but we didn’t know it at the time. We trained our military to be better, bigger, faster and stronger. Now we have a gutless President who is a paper tiger pontificator, and Putin’s Russians think they are stronger than us. Whether they are or not they really are is beside the fact. This is because they are the bully on the block now and we have a community activist running the White House who is clearly neither a fighter nor the most powerful man in the world. He has never held a real job or served in the military. Conflict is not in his blood. In two terms of office he put the US where he wanted it, so we are now just another gutless Euro player.

Down-sizing the US military to pay for growing the dependent welfare class is going to bankrupt our country and place our security at risk in the world scheme. Those who loive freedom must be ever vigilant, because Obama's leftist agenda will continue to play out in years to come if Americans don’t elect leaders who have the balls to undo the worst of the damage.

A weaker America makes the world more dangerous for everyone, because the countries who sat safe under the US military umbrella will not have to weather the storms on their own, without American heavy lift transport or tactical air superiority.
Maybe the next time there is an earthquake or tsunami somewhere, the victims can cry out help in Chinese and see who comes? Socialism puts every country in a position of weakness even if the day to day lives of the citizens seem care free while they suck on the government teat.

Beware of your bath water fellow frogs. Jump out of the pan and run for your lives, for you are about to be scalded.