A liberal friend of mine asked me what I thought about the thirty year contract between Russia and China for oil and gas. Here is my response. I hope that I have at least made her stop and think about what is happening here.
I believe it is an indication of how irrelevant we have become. Putin and China see that the US and EU are declining due to the socialist policies both those countries have abandoned. We are too easily manipulated by the fringe special interests and they have been putting their money towards keeping us that way.
Obama received huge amounts of campaign money from Europe and Asia. He was soliciting funds via a web site with no limits on source and our enemies took advantage. You probably didn’t hear about all the money he was getting during the last election via prepaid credit cards. CNN and MSNBC don’t talk about that kind of thing because they are in the tank for the progressive movement (read socialist). Special interest groups that stifle industry and our economy with spurious perils such as global warming and fracking are being financed from somewhere. These groups are a small portion of our population, yet they have tremendous resources to commit. It certainly isn’t coming from grass roots sources, so the money must be coming from with corporate or foreign government sources. Ask, who benefits. More on this is interested.
Since the end of WWII we have maintained a military readiness doctrine of being prepared to fight a war on two fronts – Atlantic and Pacific. Obama got rid of Bill Gates as his Defense Secretary because of the obstruction he was getting for reducing this posture. Since Hagel is now in, we have reduced our capabilities, officially, to a single front readiness posture.
The pretense is that a modern war is to be fought by special operations forces against an insurgency or terrorist enemy. In the 21st century, according to Obama and Hagel, the old conflicts between nation states are an anachronism and we are wasting money by preparing for such a contingency. Obama has made this statement, or statements similar, since Putin invaded the Crimea. Both Russia and China have taken notice of this reduction in posture and seem to be making military moves on two fronts, and as a result we are incapable of confronting either. We are unable to place naval forces in a position to defend the South China Sea from Chinese aggression and seem to expect the Japanese to stop them. http://www.janes.com/article/38662/navsea-commander-charts-usn-fleet-readiness-path
It is obvious that Russia and China are working together to test US capabilities and resolve. In response to Asia, we have not moved ships into the SCS to prevent annoying China, who would gladly force a confrontation.. We have not reinforced NATO in Europe despite Putin making moves straight out of Mien Kampf. In both instances, Obama has accepted the fait accompli and has asked both sides to restrain themselves and talk.
China and Russia conducting joint naval exercises is disconcerting. Even more so for our pacific allies.
The one thing that is not mentioned except in obscure radical extreme right wing military hawkish sites is what this all foretells in regard to Taiwan. If we will not move to defend Japan and the Philippines, do you think the Chinese will believe us willing to go to war over the sovereignty of that island? Forget the Chinese. Do YOU believe Obama would go to war to defend Taiwan?
There are two years left in this administration (unless he decides that a national emergency exists and he can’t afford to leave office and deprive America of his leadership and wisdom). You can bet both Putin and China are watching this midterm election to determine if they need to move before 2016. It just may be that in 2017, a Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio gets in office and then they will find the US ready and willing to stand up to them. Putin certainly remembers when Jimmy Carter gave way to Ronald Reagan. And Obama is no Jimmy Carter. Obama makes Carter look like George Patton.
Obama has surrendered both Iraq and Afghanistan to the terrorists. HE says the war on terror is over. Al Qaeda and the Taliban may not agree. Either way, Russia and China see this and realize now is the time to move. While we have a pussy in charge.
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Am I wrong, or is Putin moving just like Hitler in Europe while China makes a move on the oil and resources of the South China Sea just like Tojo? It just seems like it is too similar.
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