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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThe Washington Times<\/a> reports that Secretary of State John Kerry (that still sounds weird) told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that the Obama Administration “is currently considering all options, they\u2019re all on the table”. <\/p>\n President Obama had a phone call Saturday with Russian president Vladimir Putin calling on him to roll back the invasion of Crimea and urging Russia to talk with the Ukranian government.<\/p>\n Mr. Kerry said it is too soon to tell if the phone call will push Russia to end the conflict with diplomacy.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s no question but that Russia needs to understand this is serious and we and the other friends and allies engaged in this are all deadly serious about this. You can not behave like this in the 21st century,\u201d Mr. Kerry said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Scolding will work. I’m sure. The US has become the Ned Flanders of the community of nations. Other folks can take our stuff, break our stuff, call us names, kill our citizens, and we’ll still call them “good neighborinos”. It didn’t start in 2009, either, but it sure hasn’t improved in the last few years.<\/p>\n Remember in 2007 when the US started talks with Poland and the Czech Republic to station anti-ballistic missiles there, and then Vlad Putin started rattling his saber. He warned Poland that a US missile shield there would cause World War III. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn the deputy chief of staff of Russia’s armed forces said “Poland, by deploying (the system) is exposing itself to a strike \u2013 100 percent”.<\/p>\n So, even after we had signed the “Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Poland Concerning the Deployment of Ground-Based Ballistic Missile Defense Interceptors in the Territory of the Republic of Poland” in August of 2008, the Obama Administration abandoned the agreement a little more than a year later.<\/p>\n So our stationing of defensive missiles in an ally’s country could provoke a war, but not Putin’s invasion of one of our allies doesn’t worry isn’t an act of war?<\/p>\n Like I’ve said, I don’t think that a war with Russia should be “on the table”, but our greatest weapon on the world stage was the perception that we would have the balls to protect our interests in the world. That perception no longer exists. So Kerry’s words ring hollow. Even Marco Rubio’s 8 Steps to Punish Russia in Politico<\/a> sound pretty hollow and weak.<\/p>\n I’m sure it’s no coincidence that this happened while the Pentagon is doing it’s level best to jerk the teeth out of our fighting force. It happened to George HW Bush in 1990, and history\/reality comes around again to bite our ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"