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Vladimir Putin is ignoring him. Sarah Palin is bragging about outsmarting him.
The Cold War-style crisis in the Ukraine is exposing President Obama’s lack of foreign policy respect to new lows. Hours after Obama’s toothless threat to Putin to stay out, Russia’s military moved in uncontested.
So what was Obama’s response to this bold show of military force by Putin? He made a phone call to the Russian leader and pulled out of planning meetings for the next G-8 summit in Sochi.
No, not the actual summit. Just the planning meetings.
Wow, Putin must be shaking in his shoe lifts. The Russian president, on the heels of the successful Sochi Olympics, is now maneuvering his military forces into Crimea virtually unchallenged. While Obama was holding a press conference to warn Russia “there will be costs” to intervention in the Ukraine, Putin was getting his rubber stamp Parliament to approve military action.
Turns out there were no costs. What’s next? Threatening to revoke Russia’s gold medals?
Things are so bad for Obama’s foreign policy cred that Palin is taking to Facebook to remind the world that she was mocked for saying during the 2008 campaign that Russia might invade Ukraine. Now Palin is gloating about her diplomatic foresight, while the Obama administration is scrambling to prevent Russia from invading the rest of the Ukraine.
The next few days and weeks will be a severe test for the president. Obama has been a few steps behind during this latest version of a Cold War standoff, and the world is looking for some kind of strong response to Putin’s show of muscle.
The president’s critics could see this one coming. In an interview with Boston Herald Radio last week, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton mocked Obama’s initial call for Russia to stay out of the Ukraine crisis.
Bolton accurately predicted it was “naive” of Obama to think that Russia would stand down in a region where it had major economic and military interests.
“Russia’s going to be involved — you can just count on it,” Bolton said. “The question is whether we’ll be involved.”
The question is what will Obama do? Just write off Ukraine and hope Russia doesn’t launch a total invasion?
Bolton said this latest crisis is the result of Obama showing little interest in re-establishing U.S. foreign policy muscle in hot spots like Ukraine and Syria. Now may be the time for Obama to call Putin’s bluff, and show he is paying attention.
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/international/2014/03/prez_s_foreign_policy_credibility_taking_a_beating