An article in today’s NYTIMES is titled “Obama Seeks A Meeting With Putin in New York.”
Let’s trace what happened here.
Until recently, Putin has been begging for this meeting but kept getting rebuffed. Having this meeting is very important to him domestically.
Putin invades Syria.
Putin immediately gets what he wanted and more: Obama is actually asking for a meeting.
Now I will let you draw your own conclusion. This chain of events suggests to Putin that invading other countries
a) is
or
b) is not
the way to get what he wants.
I can’t know what Obama is thinking but the only actual result of his policies is encouraging Putin to invade more countries and ramp up his aggression in Syria. I’m starting to think that this is not accidental. Obama can’t enhance military engagement because his voters don’t want any, so he is doing it through Putin.
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In news today:
// Russian navy to conduct drills near Israel
Days after Netanyahu meets Putin in Moscow, Russia’s Defense Ministry announces it plans to conduct naval exercises in the “east Mediterranean”.
Regarding taking refugees – do you agree with Prof. Jan Tomasz Gross? See here:
Eastern Europe vs. refugees: A suppressed historical memory?
Op-ed: Prof. Jan Tomasz Gross believes that Hungary, Slovakia and Poland’s stubborn refusal to take in more refugees stems from their failure to engage in a conscientious, national and personal self-examination of their conduct during World War II; whether he is right or wrong, the facts are on his side
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4703624,00.html
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Call me cynical, but I don’t think the present leaders of Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland CARE about 75-year-old ancient history. They’re trying to be practical and to act in what they perceive as the current national interests of their countries.
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I agree with Dreidel. These are countries that are much, much poorer than Germany or Austria. Their social safety net is very weak as it is. How can anybody expect them to fork out enormous sums of money to give benefits to refugee when they barely have any benefits anyway?
I also find this professor’s hint that this lack of money in a struggling country means its inhabitants are Nazis to be tasteless and offensive.
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