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.
Anthony No Your claims that Obama’s economic policies have resulted in jobs and a rising economy are actually false. You have to actually try to understand the graphs and information distributed by the White House and the government. The labor force participation rate has slid from 65.7 percent to 62.9 (the lowest reading since March 1978) — down 4.3 percent. On Obama’s watch, the percentage of Americans below the poverty line has grown, according to the most recent Census data, from 14.3 percent to 14.8 percent in 2014 — up 3.5 percent. Real median household income sank from $54,925 to $53,657 — down 2.3 percent.Food Stamp participants soared in that time frame from 32,889,000 to 45,874,000 — up 39.5 percent. Meanwhile, from Obama’s arrival through the fourth quarter of 2015, the percentage of Americans who own homes sagged from 67.3 percent to 63.8 — down 5.2 percent.
The percentage of families in which no one is employed has grown from 17.8 in 2008 to 19.7 in 2015, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. The 14 or so million jobs Obama claims that have been created during his watch is only true when someone only views the data in a way which is biased in his favor. The truth is that only 9.3 million jobs were created on Obama’s watch (which is much less than the number of jobs created during either Clinton’s or Reagan’s presidencies, which are good comparisons since they both came into office during a depression), here’s the link for the data https://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet?request_action=wh&graph_name=CE_cesbref1
The figure of 14 million jobs quoted by the Obama administration is derived by looking at the number of private sector jobs created since the lowest point during the Great Recession. And the typical family is actually taking home less today than when he took office when you adjust for inflation. And job growth hasn’t kept pace with population growth. Not only that, but most of the jobs created are part time jobs that pay minimum wage, they are not jobs that are meant for people to be able to support a family with.
Also, GDP growth is actually at an all time low for any president since we began tracking it. Under the Obama administration GDP growth has never broken 3%, which all previous presidents could boast as the minimum of growth during their terms. Obama administration GDP growth has maxed out around an average of 2.1% annual growth. Put this into comparison, Reagan was a president who came into the most similar of situations as Obama, however Reagan’s economic growth during his run as president was an average of 4.7% annual growth of the GDP.
And while Obama is credited with aiding the American Automobile industry, the truth is that more small businesses and medium sized businesses have gone out of business on his watch due to his economic policies than during previous administrations. Not to mention, his administration has pushed policies geared towards encouraging college aged individuals to pursue degrees in social and environmental justice instead of degrees in science and engineering, which results in these graduates of higher learning not ending up with jobs that pay well but with jobs that are low paying and which causes those coveted degrees to go to waste.
In fact, most American companies that are doing well are mostly experiencing growth in their offshore profits, such as G.E. which has seen an offshore profit increase from $15 billion to $92 billion. The only Americans who are benefited by those offshore profit increases are CEOs and high level staff of such companies. It does not create American jobs nor does it help the American economy.
And the $20 trillion debt racked up the Obama administration is no help either.
Putin is a leader and despite the fact that he is Russian, he shows more morals,ethics,compassion,honesty and leadership than the poser in the White House ever has.
Green jacket, gold jacket who gives a$#%&!@*
F**k Putin and the Russians get off his$#%&!@*you f**e patriots
It’s all George Bush’s fault though. Lol. That’s the standard fall back. Blaming the previous administration is a joke. True leaders note the problem and work to fix it. Dwelling on the past adminstration when you have been the president for 2 full terms is absurd. If Donald Trump blames Obama for everything I will still say the same thing. It’s time to fix problems. Not play the blame game.
Fuckrudsia
Our government is rotten to the core. I wouldn’t trust any of them to hold a cup of p**s while standing in an open sewer.
Nah, no brain to start with, tax payer educated.
Wow some TRUTH, from a Russian President ,thanks Vladimir.
I get it tho