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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
Pitons first job in office was to take back Chechnya. Who stopped that? How did Russia suffer. They sent military into Georgia ... Who stopped that? What was the cost. This is not something new... He knows exactly how to play the Eu and US and it is weak leadership that creates these opportunities just as weak leadership. Will ultimately welcome Russia back into western arms in a year or two or three.
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I do agree with you 100% that the EU is soft, has bloated cumbersome governance, and somehow got blindsided by Putin even though the signs were right in their face. Any collection of countries like that who operate under consensus are typically going to get outmaneuvered by a single autocratic govt riding a wave of popular nationalism, unless their existence is directly threatened (as say in the Cold War). And the EU has a failure of will right now.
But despite Obama's many faults, no US president would have had more options in this timeframe. We're winding down multiple costly bullshit interventions & wars and are in an isolationist phase relatively speaking. What would you have us do instead?
Regardless now that everyone's cards are on the table it'll be interesting to see how things develop from here. I just think the media & population is so quick to pounce on anything and declare it failure or success instantly, when shit takes time to evolve.