Obama and Medvedev: Ol' Chums Writing for the Telegraph, Nile Gardiner takes Obama to task for his geopolitical impotence and perfidy. My consolation is that stridently offensive moves like this will only hasten the realization among Americans that this president is a light weight, woefully incompetent at best, dangerously naive (to cite Hillary Clinton) at worst, and that he should get the boot à la Jimmy Carter in 2012, for the sake of our nation, and our allies who look to us for moral leadership.
This is bad news for all who care about the US commitment to the transatlantic alliance and the defence of Europe as well as the United States. It represents the appalling appeasement of Russian aggression and a willingness to sacrifice American allies on the altar of political expediency. A deal with the Russians to cancel missile defence installations sends a clear message that even Washington can be intimidated by the Russian bear.
What signal does this send to Ukraine, Georgia and a host of other former Soviet satellites who look to America and NATO for protection from their powerful neighbour? The impending cancellation of Third Site is a shameful abandonment of America’s friends in eastern and central Europe, and a slap in the face for those who actually believed a key agreement with Washington was worth the paper it was written on.
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