When Will Our Foreign Policy Get Smarter?

Now we have clear cut proof that Obama personally forced Ukraine to cede the Crimea to Putin:

As Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces took over Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in early 2014, the interim Ukrainian government was debating whether or not to fight back against the “little green men” Russia had deployed. But the message from the Barack Obama administration was clear: avoid military confrontation with Moscow.

The reason why this dumbass order was given is that Obama adamantly refuses to learn anything about other countries. It’s as if the very existence of other countries were an affront yo his sensibilities.

As U.S. officials told us recently, the White House feared that if the Ukrainian military fought in Crimea, it would give Putin justification to launch greater military intervention in Ukraine.

Of course, the exact opposite was true. Putin became emboldened by the easy annexation of the Crimea and immediately launched the very “greater military intervention in Ukraine” that Obama was trying to avoid.

And please don’t tell me Ukraine could have avoided following Obama’s order. When you are being invaded by the world’s second greatest nuclear power, you have to be suicidal to start antagonizing the world’s greatest nuclear power.

People, we’ve got to wake up and start electing politicians who are at least vaguely aware of the existence of countries other than the US. The American foreign policy has been bizarrely idiotic for. . . ok, I tried to think about it but nothing but “forever” comes to mind.

The world is changing, though. There won’t be any chance of sitting out any more global conflicts. We need to start doing something to prevent them from happening. Or we’ll be very fucked.