OBAMA LIES HIS EFFIN' ASS OFF IN THE HAGUE

Huff Post:

It's been several weeks since the invasion happened. Crimea has been annexed. The world community has responded with sanctions and isolation. But few see the Russian president reversing course. Romney himself has felt secure enough to take the equivalent of a victory lap -- first with a Wall Street Journal op-ed saying that Obama's tentativeness was to blame for a bevy of world crises; then with an appearance on CBS' "Face the Nation," in which he waxed critical about Obama's "faulty judgment" and "naivete with regards to Russia." 

The told-you-so-ism has frustrated a number of Democrats who argue that people are either ignoring the vaster complexities of world affairs and/or seeing a largely regional conflict in more alarming terms. Russia, after all, invaded Crimea when Putin ally, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, was forced to flee that country because the masses had turned against Russia and toward Europe. How does that make Russia the world's foremost geopolitical threat? As Slate's Brian Beutler wrote:

[T]he fact that this supposedly great adversary keeps making a menace of itself in bordering, former Soviet republics more or less demonstrates the opposite of what the revisionists think it proves.

At a press conference at The Hague on Tuesday, Obama echoed this exact point. Asked if Romney had been right all along, he responded:

With respect to Mr. Romney's assertion that Russia is our number one geopolitical foe, the truth of the matter is that America has got a whole lot of challenges. Russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors not out of strength but out of weakness. Ukraine has been a country, [over] which Russia had enormous influence for decades, since the breakup of the Soviet Union. We have considerable influence on our neighbors; we generally don't need to invade them in order to have a strong cooperative relationship with them. The fact that Russia felt compelled to go in militarily and lay bare these violations of international law indicates [that they have] less influence, not more.

And so my response then continues to be what I believe today, which is Russia's actions are a problem. They don't pose the number one national security threat to the United States. I continue to be much more concerned, when it comes to our security, with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan, which is part of the reason why the United States, showing its continued international leadership, has organized a forum over the last several years that has been able to help eliminate that threat in a consistent way.

Calling Russia a "regional power" was, in all likelihood, a well-intentioned slight. As for the other part of the response, this wasn't the president simply declining to say that his 2012 opponent had it right. This was him saying that Romney missed the point and continues to do so.

BULLSHIT!

Calling Russia "a regional power" was no mere "slight"; it was a huge baldfaced LIE.

Russia brokered the Syrian Chemical weapons deal and supplies Iran with all their nuclear materials. 

They are elbowing their way into the other former USSR satellites, and Egypt, Afghanistan, and have more influence in Venezuela and Cuba now than they've had for DECADES! 

They have enough nuclear bombs to demolish all life on Earth many times over - more than the USA. 

THEY ARE MORE POWERFUL THAN THE ENTIRE EU AND CHINA - AND THEY CAN KINETICALLY PROJECT THAT POWER.

THE USA HAS NO MORE POWERFUL MILITARY FOE THAN RUSSIA.

Drew M. at Ace:

"A regional power"?
I'm going to guess Obama has never looked at a globe and noticed that Russia stretches across many regions...Europe, it's very near the Mideast and encompasses central Asia and reaches to the Pacific.
As Greg Pollowitz notes, if you have a fleet of ICBMs, you're pretty much by definition beyond "a regional power".
They are also making noises about establishing bases in Latin America.
Is Russia a hyper-power like the US or even the superpower it was during the, dare I say, "original", Cold War? Not really. But that doesn't mean they aren't capable of making trouble in many parts of the world for the US.

OBAMA KNOWS THIS SO ONE MUST CONCLUDE HE IS LYING.

HE IS LYING FOR ONE OF TWO REASONS:

• TO COVER UP HIS NAIVE INCOMPETENCE...

... OR...

• TO COVER UP HIS COMPLICITY WITH PUTIN.

THERE'S NO DENYING THAT RUSSIA HAS BENEFITED MORE FROM OBAMA'S FOREIGN POLICY THAN THE USA OR OUR ALLIES HAVE.

RUSSIA HAS SO CONSISTENTLY BENEFITED, THAT I FEEL THE LATTER MUST BE THE CASE: OBAMA WORKS FOR PUTIN.

THINGS WON'T IMPROVE UNTIL WE WIN THE SENATE AND ARE IN A POSITION TO FORCE OBAMA TO OBEY OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR LAWS ND DEFEND OUR NATIONAL INTEREST AN THE INTERESTS OF OUR ALLIES.