It is sad that Obama, Clinton and Kerry have so messed up the Middle East with their “Arab Spring” that Vladimir Putin becomes the hero who brings order out of the chaos.
Putin, allies with Assad. His relations with Iran are improving. (Hey, you don’t see masses of people in the streets of Tehran shouting “Death to Putin! Death to Russia!”) Russia sees Syria as a strategic location. They have moved military to the Syrian border. Putin believes Obama’s fingers in the Middle East have left a vacuum that ISIS is filling. Putin is closely aligned with how many American conservatives view Obama’s bungling of it. More bungling on the next page.
From Putin’s UN speech:
Instead of the triumph of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty and social disaster — and nobody cares a bit about human rights, including the right to life. I cannot help asking those who have forced that situation: Do you realize what you have done?”
A report at Jihad Watch answers:
No, they don’t realize what they have done, and they’re poised to do more of it. And those of us who warned at the time that the “Arab Spring” would not lead to “the triumph of democracy and progress,” but to “violence, poverty and social disaster,” were dismissed and derided as racist, bigoted “Islamophobes.” And no matter how often the establishment analysts get things wrong, and disastrously, and fatally so, they never get called to account, and keep applying the same failed solutions.
Source: Jihad Watch
Bravo! Well said.
Two choices: Either the Obama regime, who encouraged what they named the “Arab Spring” knew exactly the fallout, and wanted to destabilize the Middle East. Or the Obama regime is delusional and really thought having “JV Team”, ISIS, fill the vacuum. That’s a good thing.
Whatever you think of Putin, he is right about Obama. No easy answers, but with pro-Arab apologists like Samantha Powers as Ambassador to the UN, a real confidante, who has the ear of the President, and was one of the architects of the Arab Spring, you can bet what happens next will be more of the same.
Perhaps after Putin is through eliminating ISIS over there, we can invite him here to take on the tens of thousands of Syrian Islamists that Obama is inviting in.
For those talking GDP and all stats.. one stat throws all of that out of whack..The national debt doubled in Obamas 8 yrs .. double all presidents in history. Now 10 trillion swept under the rug for others to worry about is only passing the problem on and makes all the rest of the stats just b******t. It’s like paying your bills with a credit card
. You still gotta pay it plus fees later.
Dale Norman In a private meeting on 9-5-16, Obama warned Putin about cyber attacks against American interests. On 9/12, in an Oval Office meeting, he informed congressional leaders of the topic and scope of those discussions. Since these were intelligence operations, he couldn’t make them public, what else would you have him do? The cyber attacks were mentioned numerous times (even indirectly by Mr. Trump) between July and the elections and no congressional investigations were initiated despite multiple requests from Democratic leaders and the President. Only now have investigations been called for. As for the Affordable Care Act, I think Obama made a mistake making that his first priority in 2009, but that was his choice, and the GOP had enough votes in the House to filibuster any action, which they successfully did.
I have many descriptive words for the outgoing President; dictator was not one of them.
Why not just give Russia the keys the the United States.$#%&!@*was the same kind of man. Trump and$#%&!@*both man of thevyear. It’s going to be so much fun living in fear for the next 4 years
It makes me puke that there are voters that are supporting this$#%&!@*over our government. What a bunch of absolute scumbags.
Obama never even had a real job! How can he even think of threats against Russia? He is looked upon by the world as a weak man and a sissy! Very sad all the kiss asses told him he was great. Obama lives in dream world! He is a dumb $#%&!@* My opinion!
F**e news site and propaganda, what fucked up alternate dimension do these retards live in to be praising Putin?
Putin has an approval rating of more than 80%. He is loved by all within Russia and many abroad. He is the furthest thing from a dictator.
Putin understands that we have a lot of corruption in our gov’t., and that President Trump will fix it. Which is why he hasn’t acted on their threats. He seems to be a civil man
A powerful speech from a leader who enjoys over 80% approval rating from his own people. He has earned it along with respect from many abroad.