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Obama has been rushing to the exit for the past 14 months.
It comes down to this: Obama wanted to redesign the international system and move the US out of the central role. He found that first, impossible and undesirable, and then he found events happen which explicitly negated, almost point by point, his entire foreign vision. Rather than reverse course, he's been laying the ground work for the next President to take a more aggressive approach, but has himself been stalling and rushing for the exit.
I mean nearly all MMO-Champ OT's foreign policy discussions regarding Obama are bipolar. On one side his present day policy is usually either tepid or utterly damnable. On the other side, his medium and long term plans that he's laying the groundwork for are completely perfect, but won't see the payoff until the next President.
This disconnect is probably driven by the fact that Barack Obama himself is a terrible manager and tries to keep everybody on his staff happy. So he lets the true believers like Susan Rice and the White House team run near term policy and let's the longer term policy be the responsibility of cabinet offices whose budgets are built by congress. The result is a bipolar policy.
We have just 200 days of his reign of error left.
Last edited by Skroe; 2016-05-01 at 01:24 AM.
191 days now or 4588 hours.
http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...+OUT+OF+OFFICE
Obama was the best thing that happened to the US for quite a while now and i am not joking one bit.
As for Hilary..
Not sure if this was mentioned but apparently Russia harassed a second US spy plane.
2nd Russian Fighter Jet Flies Barrel Roll Over US Spy Planewhat did they call the second roll lol?The Pentagon called the first barrel roll "unsafe and unprofessional."
Kangodo, look. If you conduct a survey in North Korea asking people whether they are happy with their lives, 100% will say "Yes". The vast majority of them will be sincere while saying that, not just saying it out of fear for their lives. Why? Because of the governmental propaganda, because of the way their society functions, because of the quality of information they are receiving, etc. etc. etc. Let one, any, common North Korean citizen live, say, in the US for a year - they will learn to absolutely hate North Korea. Again, why? Because they will understand that what they had, what they thought was happiness, actually was not such, it was just acceptance of the situation due to not having an alternative. Let any common Russian citizen live in the US for a year - they won't want to go back.
You may like or not like the US political system. That it is flawed is an understatement (same goes for every political system on this planet). But to seriously claim that Russians live like they do because they like it that way and not because they don't know how to make it better... Seriously, mate, book a trip to the top Russian city in terms of quality of life, Moscow. Walk on the streets, look at the facial expressions. Is this what people satisfied with life look like? Hell no, these people are suffering. But they still praise Putin and bash the US, the country to which almost all of them would move instantly, if they were able to. Why? Rhetorical question.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Crimea and most of the areas that voted for The Party of Regions in the last real election are very pro-Russia. Ukraine might as well be two distinct countries with East and West because they have different values, language, etc. These are basically Russians living outside of Russia.
Stains on the carpet and stains on the memory
Songs about happiness murmured in dreams
When we both of us knew how the end always is...