World Leaders Walking Away From Obama –Image: Lemniscat
(Kyiv Post) President Obama speaking in Brussels yesterday, subsequent to his meeting with NATO and the European Union said:
“Russia’s leadership is challenging truths that only a few weeks ago seemed self evident–that in the 21st century, the borders of Europe cannot be redrawn with force, that international law matters and that people and nations can make their own decisions about their future.”
Russian President Vladmir Putin must not have received that memo.
Since Russia’s invasion of and annexation of Crimea, the Red Army has now seized 51 naval vessels belonging to Ukraine and over the past week, Russia has reportedly amassed up to an additional 80,000 troops, together with large amounts of armored ground vehicles, battle tanks, artillery systems as well as rotary and fixed winged aircraft along the Ukrainian border.
Responding to the escalating crisis unfolding with Russia, President Obama deviated from the news of the day and allowed himself to get side-tracked, borrowing language from a campaign stump speech in 2012 according to CNN.com saying, “We believe in human dignity–that every person is created equal no matter who you are or what you look like or who you love or where you come from,” chiding Vladimir Putin on Gay rights, reconfirming to enemies of the United States (if there was any doubt before) that President Obama is weak, naive and ill equipped spectator instead of the leader of the free world.
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