On February 23, five days before Russia invaded Ukraine, National Security Adviser Susan Rice appeared on Meet the Press and shrugged off suggestions that Russia was preparing any kind of military intervention: “It’s in nobody’s interest to see violence returned and the situation escalate.” A return to a “Cold War construct” isn’t necessary, Rice insisted, because such thinking “is long out of date” and “doesn’t reflect the realities of the 21st century.” Even if Vladimir Putin sees the world this way, Rice argued, it is “not in the United States’ interests” to do so...
It was a remarkably transparent case of pretending the world is what we wish it to be, rather than seeing it as it is.
On February 28, Russian troops poured into Ukraine. As they did, Secretary of State John Kerry spoke to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, his Russian counterpart. Kerry briefed reporters after their talk, plainly unaware of the developments on the ground. Kerry said that Russia wants to help Ukraine with its economic problems. Lavrov had told him “that they are prepared to be engaged and be involved in helping to deal with the economic transition that needs to take place at this point.”Hours later, television screens across the world displayed images of Russian soldiers infiltrating Crimea and Russian artillery rolling through Sevastopol. Obama administration officials told CNN’s Barbara Starr that the incursion was not “an invasion” but an “uncontested arrival” and that this distinction was “key” to understanding the new developments.But euphemism can’t alter reality.
Not everyone in the world is a Democrat and hangs slavishly on your every word and view, Barack.
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...not “an invasion” but an “uncontested arrival”
I can see a defense lawyer thinking this might be a novel defense for his home invasion defendant.
"...They tempted my client by having windows to look through to see their stuff and they didn't even fight back when he pointed his gun at them, your honor!"
Nature abhors a vacuum. Create a vacuum of power by cutting forces, setting up rigid ROE's and offering a public message that avoids exceptionalism in any form and you create a situation where big players feel it's okay to expand. While Obama likes to pretend this is a Global Economy and that American exceptionalism doesn't matter-it's a lie. Without the U.S. there to play enforcer publicly or via meaningful diplomatic action (a joke considering who's in power at State)nations like China, Russia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Somalia, Egypt, Pakistan and India will take steps-ostensibly for their own security-to fill the void. Obama and his staff seem woefully ignorant of not just American history, but on the history of humankind. Somewhere Putin is laughing.
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