With Vladimir Putin sending troops into the Crimea, the
obvious question is what will the EU do?
The US can do nothing because Mr. Obama’s foreign policy, which went through
a period of apologizing to foreign potentates as part of his mania with decolonization,
then moved to making bold threats that were not carried out in Libya, to being
outmaneuvered by Syria, to settling on chunking cruise missiles at suspected
terrorists, is now if full-blown free fall.
Political leaders throughout the world do not take him or the US
seriously. This leaves the EU as the
only potential force that can halt Putin’s conquest of the Crimea and the
realization of a 400+ year Russian dream – access to a warm-water port. The big question is, of course, will the EU
allow itself to be outmaneuvered once again by bogus claims of national
self-determination. One dictator successfully
used this ploy to get the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. The question is whether or not the leaders of
the EU will allow this naked aggression against a sovereign state to continue
or will they find a convenient excuse to extricate themselves so they don’t
have to reveal that they cannot project their force beyond their borders? If I were a betting man, I’d start exchanging
my Ukrainian hryvnia for Russian rubles.
Sunday, March 2, 2014
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