Now that the Russian President
Vladimir Putin has gotten his way in the Crimea and the Ukraine, thanks in no
small measure to the bumbling bureaucrats in Brussels, and the naïve amateurs
in America. What to do?
There is a game changing action
Mr. Obama and the United States could set in motion that, in my view, would
have a profound impact on American security and foreign policy, and global
stability. Its impact will be felt worldwide.
Operation Game Changer is
proprietary. It is a bold plan of action. So I would hold out little hope that the
Obama Administration would give it a green light.
As for other options, there is
nothing this administration and its allies have but excuses. American military
action in the Ukraine, with Mr. Obama as Commander in Chief, is off the table. We’re
spread to thin. NATO intervention requiring support of European capitals –
never happen. Besides, Ukraine is not a member of NATO, so no Charter
obligation. Economic sanctions sure, but the other side can play that game too.
In fact, the crisis has increased energy prices that will compensate Russia in
lost revenue from other sources. Other sanctions such as visas, suspending
multi-lateral talks, cancelling meeting participation, and White House non-participation
in the Sochi Paralympics Games, are all under consideration.
This explains a lot as to why
American and European foreign policy has been so risible and pathetic. The
Russians, Chinese, Israelis, Egyptians, and others, understand that
the world is a dangerous place, even deadly, not classroom exercises. Lives are
at stake, and the possibility of a catastrophic event is not science fiction. History
for these people is long and incredibly serious, and not correlated to today’s bankrupt
sensibilities and cultural deprivation.
If you follow the dialogue
between Messrs. Putin and Sergey Lavrov on the one side, and Messrs. Obama and
Kerry on the other, you would think you went through time and found yourself in
March 1999. But, it would be confusing. Then it was Bill Clinton and Madeleine
Albright, playing the parts of Putin and Lavrov defending NATO’s duty to go to
war in Kosovo, and Boris Yel’tsin and Igor Ivanov searching for a peaceful
solution. It’s true, where you sit is where you stand.
Bill Clinton and Madeleine
Albright lied about the “atrocities” being committed in Kosovo leading up to
the war in March 1999. What was going on in Kosovo in 1999 was a military
campaigned waged by the Kosovo Liberation Army (“KLA”), to separate Kosovo from
Serbia, and eventually creating a greater Albania, made up of Albania, Kosovo,
northern Macedonia, and the Preševo Valley
in Serbia. The so-called humanitarian disaster in Kosovo was orchestrated by
the KLA, not Serbia. Mr. Clinton’s statement to the nation, read: “We act to
protect thousands of innocent people,” while Madeleine Albright chirped
endlessly about atrocities being committed by the Serbs. It was all lies. The
real perpetrator was the KLA, Mr. Clinton’s and Madame Albright’s “freedom
fighters.”
Moreover, the KLA took advantage
of the Holbrooke Agreement (Rambouillet) in October 1998, in which Serbia
removed their forces from Kosovo, to conduct their bloody military campaign.
This was never made public. There were very few incidents of Albanian civilians
being attacked by Serbian forces (see OSCE reports of monitoring groups). Total
Albanian civilians killed before the war started in March 1999, was at most,
47. So the rai·son d'être for NATO to go to
war was false.
Today we know we were being told more lies by the Obama Administration
and European Union (“EU”). On February 18,
protesters attack police lines and set fires outside parliament. Riot police
respond to the violence by trying to push protesters off Independence Square.
At least 26 people died and hundreds were injured. On February 20, hours after a truce is announced, violence
resumes, with snipers shooting protesters from the rooftops. All the western
media and government officials reported that the snipers were under orders from
the Ukrainian Government of President Viktor Yanukovych.
Not
so fast. First reported on ZeroHedge.com, March 5, 2014, a new recording of a
telephone conversation between EU foreign affairs head Catherine Ashton and
Estonian foreign minister Urmas Paet, revealed this socking and disturbing
news: In the conversation, Mr. Paet states that:
“the killing
were from both sides, policemen and people from the street… So there is now
stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers, it was not
Yanukovych, but it was somebody from the new coalition.”
The
upshot is: first the United States orchestrates and foments the overthrow of
the legally elected Yanukovych government, because the West did not like his
decision on the EU; and now we learn the leaders of the newly installed
Coalition Government, were the ones who ordered the killings in the Maidan
Square in Kiev, the capital city of the Ukraine.
A
Coalition Government that came to power with US and EU support, which murdered
its own people to fabricate the pretext under which it took power. Does this
despicable act remind you of anything? That’s right, Kosovo.
The
Coalition was running the KLA playbook, and the US and EU was laying down
cover. But this time their hand is weak. NATO is a shell of its former self,
and Russia is not Serbia. As a result, the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine are now
for all intents and purposes part of Russia.
And
finally, Mr. Obama now tells us that what Russia is doing violates
international law. He lectures:
“There is a
strong belief that Russia’s action is violating international law. I know
President Putin seems to have a different set of lawyers making a different set
of interpretations, but I don’t think that’s fooling anybody.”
Well
Mr. Obama, Mr. Putin must have hired the same lawyers Bill Clinton and Tony
Blair had to justify NATO’s war in Serbia (Kosovo). Then the Russian’s argued
that the Kosovo War and recognition of Kosovo’s independence was a violation of
international law, a UN Resolution, the UN Charter, and the principle of national sovereignty forged out of the
horror of World War II. So Mr. Obama, the only one fooling anybody is you, your
Administration, and the Brussels bureaucrats. Kosovo was folly, and until you
correct that mistake, it is disingenuous to tell others they are acting badly.
Mr.
Obama and company has another foreign policy failure on their hands. A word to
the people of the Ukraine -- do you really think a man like Mr. Obama, who
would not save his own Ambassador in Benghazi, Libya against a band of
terrorists, would come to your rescue?
Still,
there is always plan X.
