Is World War III Beginning in Ukraine?
World War II didn’t begin because Germany invaded Poland on September
1st, 1939 but because the Western powers had failed to enforce the Treaty of Versailles by permitting
Hitler to remilitarize the Rhineland in March 1936, by failing to intervene when
he annexed Austria in 1938, and by acquiesing in his seizure of the Sudetenland
in Czechoslovakia; those failures were the direct result of the prevailing
pacifism in the West which sought “peace for our time” at any cost.
The First World War led to the deaths of 37 million people, the Second to the loss of 60 million lives. If and when it comes, World War III promises to dwarf those numbers and, like the previous conflicts, could be avoided given competent and courageous leadership on the part of the presumptive “Leader of the Free World,” America’s President Barack Hussein Obama.
Based on his proven record of dithering hesitancy, terminal international naiveté, and questionable interest in anything aside from campaigning, fund raising, and golf, we shouldn’t expect much, and that’s exactly what we’re getting.
Mercifully not yet a fait accompli, the opening salvos of
the Third World War may already
have been heard in Ukraine.
Despite Obama’s dire public warning to Russia on Friday that there would be (typically unspecified) costs for any military intervention in Ukraine, a threat that probably gave Russian President Vladimir Putin a hearty chuckle and provoked Russian lawmakers to ask for the recall of the country’s ambassador to America, nothing changed.
Despite Obama’s 90 minute Saturday phone call to Putin vapidly expressing his ”deep concern over Russia’s clear violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity” and urging Putin to de-escalate tensions by withdrawing his invading troops back to Crimea, nothing changed.
Despite the request by the United Nations’ Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for “an immediate restoration of calm and direct dialogue between all concerned to solve the current crisis” in Ukraine and his vow to call Putin to express his “grave” concerns, nothing changed.
Well, “nothing changed” isn’t quite correct.
Changes have occurred, none of them good and all of them the consequences of our weak and disrespected president. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=36065.)
The First World War led to the deaths of 37 million people, the Second to the loss of 60 million lives. If and when it comes, World War III promises to dwarf those numbers and, like the previous conflicts, could be avoided given competent and courageous leadership on the part of the presumptive “Leader of the Free World,” America’s President Barack Hussein Obama.
Based on his proven record of dithering hesitancy, terminal international naiveté, and questionable interest in anything aside from campaigning, fund raising, and golf, we shouldn’t expect much, and that’s exactly what we’re getting.
Despite Obama’s dire public warning to Russia on Friday that there would be (typically unspecified) costs for any military intervention in Ukraine, a threat that probably gave Russian President Vladimir Putin a hearty chuckle and provoked Russian lawmakers to ask for the recall of the country’s ambassador to America, nothing changed.
Despite Obama’s 90 minute Saturday phone call to Putin vapidly expressing his ”deep concern over Russia’s clear violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity” and urging Putin to de-escalate tensions by withdrawing his invading troops back to Crimea, nothing changed.
Despite the request by the United Nations’ Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for “an immediate restoration of calm and direct dialogue between all concerned to solve the current crisis” in Ukraine and his vow to call Putin to express his “grave” concerns, nothing changed.
Well, “nothing changed” isn’t quite correct.
Changes have occurred, none of them good and all of them the consequences of our weak and disrespected president. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=36065.)
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