Ukraine Prime Minister "Yats" Invokes Nazi Rhetoric

While Americans who are dependent on the corrupt state-corporate media fail to understand anything that is really going on in Ukraine, such as their tax dollars being used to support murdering neo-Nazi militias the mask slipped a bit in the aftermath of the shooting down of a Kiev junta military aircraft. The plane, ferrying military troops to the east for the ongoing ethnic cleansing operations sanctioned by the Obama-Kerry-Nuland dream team with a domestic media blackout to keep the war crimes hidden from the American people was taken out by an anti-aircraft missile outside of Luhansk killing 40 paratroopers and the crew. This elicited cries of outrage from the puppet government of recently 'elected' western puppet Petro Porshenko aka the Chocolate King as well as a vow of vengeance that will probably make the atrocities at the Odessa trade union building last month look like child's play.

But it was Victoria "Fuck the EU" Nuland's guy, the pencil necked geek technocrat Arseniy "Yats" Yatsenyuk, the sitting Prime Minister installed by the US backed coup d'etat against the democratically elected Viktor Yanukovych who during a speech channeled his inner Stepan Bandera. The following is excerpted from a story on the website of the missing airplane network CNN:

Hundreds gathered in Kiev's Independence Square on Sunday to honor the victims of violence that has ravaged Ukraine for months, including 49 people killed when a military plane was shot down.

Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko had declared Sunday a day of mourning. The crowd in Kiev observed a moment of silence at noon local time (5 a.m. ET).

"We bow our heads to the heroes who lost their lives for the sake of their country, to prevent the war from coming into the house of each of us," Prime-Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said.

"They lost their lives because they defended men and women, children and the elderly who found themselves in a situation facing a threat to be killed by invaders and sponsored by subhumans," he said. "First, we will commemorate the heroes by wiping out those who killed them and then by cleaning our land from the evil."

The "subhuman" reference is a major faux pas from "Yats" and it is being spun on message boards and in comments sections on stories as being more of a reference to the phantom Russians that the US-EU-NATO Axis of Aggression and their Kiev puppets have insisted are operating in the eastern region that is largely populated by ethnic Russians. Still, no matter the polishing of the turd that slid out of Yatsenyuk's mouth the term conjures up ugly historical images, particularly in a country where many collaborated with the Nazis and the last time such rhetoric was not only used but accepted Jews were summarily rounded up, murdered or forced into concentration camps and then gassed and incinerated. The "subhuman" reference has since been scrubbed by the Ukrainian embassy website and replaced with "inhumans" but the enterprising souls at the Moon of Alabama blog were able to get a screenshot in it's original version. Also see the Wikipedia entry on the actual Nazi term Untermensch which means "subhuman".

But the coup regime and it's new figurehead Poroshenko aren't known for their subtlety with their unconditional backing of the US establishment. If it isn't "Yats" invoking Nazi phraseology there is the far more Americanized version of rhetoric that fits our star-spangled Idiocracy which was delivered to an angry mob that gathered outside the Russian embassy in Kiev as delivered by junta Foreign Minister Andrii Deshchytsia as excerpted from a story in The Guardian "Ukraine minister's abusive remarks about Putin spark diplomatic row":

Ukraine's foreign minister has become embroiled in an unusual diplomatic row after he was caught on camera making abusive remarks about Vladimir Putin outside the Russian embassy in Kiev on Saturday evening.

As the conflict in eastern Ukraine has deepened in recent months, the chant of "Putin khuilo" has become ever more popular among Ukrainians who blame Russia for stoking discontent in the east. Khuilo is a Russian swearword that approximately translates as "fucker" or "dickhead".

Andriy Deshchytsia, the country's acting foreign minister, arrived at the Russian embassy to reason with crowds who had gathered outside, angered that pro-Russia rebels had brought down a Ukrainian transport plane near Luhansk early on Saturday, killing 49 people on board. The crowds threw rocks and eggs at the embassy, destroyed diplomatic vehicles, and painted swastikas on the gates, chanting "Putin is a fascist" and "Putin khuilo".

Deshchytsia tried to calm some in the crowd, telling them Russia should answer for its actions but that storming the embassy was not the correct response. When he was shouted down by the angry mob, he responded: "I am for you protesting. I am ready to be here with you and say 'Russia, get out of Ukraine'… Yes, Putin is a khuilo, yes."

Seizing on his words, a delighted group of protesters then struck up a "Putin khuilo" chant, leaving the minister looking somewhat bemused.

The incident prompted fury in Moscow, where officials are already incensed by the attack on the embassy and its property.

Hardly language becoming a high official and it certainly is not very helpful in deescalating a situation that seems to be very dangerously morphing into something that could develop into World War III with Obama sending nuclear capable bombers to Europe and Russia cutting off the gas to the deadbeats in Kiev today. The Russians aren't stupid, they have seen this movie before and the Sunday comments of  Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are telling:

The Ukrainian authorities "act with impunity" on various issues because they are "shielded by our Western partners, or by some of them, at least," and their "irreconcilable" position in talks on natural gas trade with Russia is one way this "impunity" manifests itself in, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday.

"We hope this arrogant and uncompromising position is not backed by a third power, although we have some reasons to think so."

"It's a source of worry for us that this impunity manifests itself increasingly often," he said, mentioning repeated arrests of Russian journalists and "the disgusting attack on the Russian Embassy" on Saturday.

Short of the Kiev fascists being reigned in by some sort of adult leadership on behalf of the USA!, USA!, USA! which has yet to manifest itself in any way the use of Hitlerian rhetoric won't be the only similarity to World War II - the body count has the potential to be astronomical when millions are cremated by some idiot in the US or NATO losing his temper and unleashing the nukes.

Ukraine: The US Government is Lying about Everything

With the cat out of the bag about exactly what type of “freedom fighters” that the US is backing in Ukraine thanks largely to the selfie video of Svoboda party thugs pummeling a television executive it is obvious to any and all outside of The Homeland cocoon that the Obama regime is lying their asses off.  The fortified stone wall of bullshit that is the US state-corporate media parroting the official line on what was a neocon instigated overthrow of a democratically elected leader who had just agreed to placate protesters with early elections is astounding. It brings to mind the march towards the attack upon and subsequent occupation of Iraq, a country that did not even remotely threaten the US by the Bush administration and the neocon ideologues that drove policy in the early years of the new American century. The wall to wall vilification of Saddam Hussein was the prototype for the ongoing spree of demagoguery directed at Russian president Vladimir Putin and which has been so withering that it is obvious that this is all about more than Ukraine. It is about Snowden and Syria as well as a pitched battle to save what is the fully mutated form of parasitic global finance capitalism.

The video of the beating of Ukraine state television boss Oleksandr Panteleymonov went viral to the extent that even the corrupt US media had to acknowledge it. The antics of Senator John McCain’s neo-Nazi pals however was spun accordingly and dishonestly in this AP story “Ukraine Nationalist Antics Seen as Gift to Russia” from which I excerpt:

The assault, which prompted condemnation in the West, presents an important test for Ukraine's new pro-Western government.

First, it's eager to show a modern, democratic face to the world as it enters a landmark political association pact with the European Union. Perhaps more gravely, the nationalist violence plays directly into the hands of Russia's propaganda spinners: State-controlled media eagerly used the incident to portray Kiev's leadership as a hive of radical nationalists who terrorize Russian speakers, justifying the Kremlin's moves to protect them in Ukraine.

Tensions are high in Ukraine as the government debates whether to pull its troops from the Crimean peninsula, where Russian forces are seizing Ukrainian ships and evicting soldiers from military bases. Crimeans are eagerly lining up to apply for Russian passports, while Russian tanks and troops amass near the border with eastern Ukraine.

For Ihor Miroshnichenko, a lawmaker with the nationalist Svoboda party, those scenes of Russian domination were all too much.

And the broadcast of Russian celebrations seemed to add insult to injury.

To vent his rage, he led a group of Svoboda colleagues in storming the office of the First National channel's chief, Oleksandr Panteleymonov, used an insulting term used to describe Russians and punched him repeatedly, while an aide recorded the scene on video.

"Today Ukraine is in a state of war and in a state of partial occupation by Russia. And when war is going on, giving the air to the enemy — I believe it is state treason," Miroshenichenko, a former journalist who sits on the parliamentary committee on freedom of speech, told the Hromadske online television channel.

"I cannot imagine that Poland which was occupied by Hitler would give him airtime on the radio so that Fuhrer could explain his position."

Miroshnichenko admitted that he may have overreacted — although he refused to acknowledge that he actually beat Panteleymonov.

The TV executive said in a statement Friday that he is ready to leave his post, but only if there is a legitimate government decision to replace him.

Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk condemned the assault as undemocratic.

"These are not our methods," Yatsenyuk said in a statement. "A country which is going toward the European Union will continue to profess the basic principles and values of the European Community."

His position is complicated by the fact that Svoboda, a vocal force in parliament that took part in the protests that ousted the pro-Russian government, received several key posts in the Cabinet — including prosecutor general, the very figure who will be in charge of investigating the TV station attack.

The United States said it was "deeply offended by this incident, which was not an exercise in patriotism, but instead a reminder of the thug-like tactics previously employed by the Yanukovych regime," the U.S. Embassy in Kiev said in a statement. "This behavior has no place in a Ukraine committed to defending democracy, civil liberties, and individual freedoms, particularly press freedoms."

A sheer masterpiece of obfuscation, spin and pure bullshit is on display and the piece should serve as a vital inclusion in any textbooks on the required reading list for Goebbels 101.The Miroshnichenko excuse that he “may have overreacted” could only be taken seriously in a land where gun violence has become so commonplace that a man could be gunned down in cold blood in a Florida movie theater because of a similar overreaction that a box of popcorn was a threat to one’s safety, there are far too many other examples of such overreactions and the Miroshnichenko excuse is hogwash. The line about the “thug-like tactics previously employed by the Yanukovych regime” stretches the bounds of audacity as does the overarching theme of the piece itself which paints the thug as the victim. It is however no small defeat for the neocons and their propagandists in that they were forced to put out a story at all even if it was just a potpourri of fibs for damage control purposes.

The most problematic aspect of this entire bringing “democracy” to Ukraine and proxy war on Putin farce to the establishment is the prevalence of vicious neo-Nazis and fascists in the western puppet government of Arseniy “Yats” Yatsenyuk. The pictures of our de facto president John McCain palling around with them should be eliciting some serious questions about exactly the sort of vermin that the US taxpayer is subsidizing. Anyone with a computer and the ability to use Google can easily find the sordid histories of McCain’s friends and their deplorable anti-Semitism – where is the ADL and the rest of the Israel Lobby on all of this? Their absence is a damning indictment of their agenda which is more about exerting influence on US foreign and domestic policy – as in the ongoing attacks on free speech at American universities – and one would think that if they had any credibility that they would be asking very serious questions about the composition of the recently installed government in Kiev.

If there is any one writer who continually amazes me with his ability to cut through the bullshit it is Justin Raimondo of Antiwar.com, a website that is such a thorn in the side of the imperial warfare state that it was under surveillance by the FBI which is a badge of honor in this lamentable land of apple pie authoritarianism. Raimondo’s most recent piece entitled “Ukraine’s Mysterious Snipers” brings up the Obama-Neocon joint venture’s neo-Nazi problem. I excerpt the following:

There is nothing subtle about the views of Svoboda and Right Sector, the two parties which have moved into the leadership of the coupist "interim government": the former used to be called the "Social National Party," and was founded as a memorial to the views of Stepan Bandera, leader of the World War II pro-Nazi militia that fought the Russians and directly participated in the Holocaust. Right Sector, a paramilitary group in charge of "security" at the Maidan, is even more extreme; it was formed from the merger of several militant neo-Nazi groups, including "White Hammer" and "Trident." Neo-Nazis have come from all over Europe to join in Ukraine’s "national revolution.

Sooner or later, the ugliness of what is occurring in Ukraine is going to come out: you can’t hide a neo-Nazi "national revolution" under the very thin veneer of a "pro-EU" protest forever. And these guys are particularly unpretty – little more than thugs masquerading as political "activists." There is entirely too much to sweep under the rug here – and the lumps in the fabric are already showing.

And the lumps will only get more obvious as reports from those being beaten and politically persecuted in Ukraine continue to seep out which they inevitably will given a bit of time. The official denial that the US is backing and funding an un-democratically installed coup government infested with fascists and neo-Nazis has to this point been dismissed as so much Putin propaganda. However, as anyone who has observed the long and painful decline of what was once a powerful democracy into a dystopian society where the media has become nothing more than a propaganda organ for the now fully rogue Deep State that only uses the visible government as an exoskeleton it serves as just one more official lie on top of a mountain of them.

Puppet Show: Obama Hosts 'Leader' Installed by Ukraine Coup d'Etat

In the garden variety state-corporate media friendly greeting of foreign leaders the hand-picked Ukrainian puppet Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk met with President Barack Obama in a heavily publicized visit to the White House on Wednesday. “Yats” as he is endearingly referred to by neocon meddler Victoria "Fuck the EU" Nuland has come to America, hat in hand to get the money to back his illegitimate, neo-Nazi friendly regime in Kiev. The former central banker, a bespectacled, pencil-necked geek “Yats” is the latest bagman for the global finance mafia who is charged with the task of getting about the gutting of social programs and essential services as well as doling out the natural resources of Ukraine so that the pigs can feast again It is an obscenity, both moral and otherwise that the Obama regime and the criminal Congress will fund the ‘leader’ installed through an obviously western orchestrated putsch that displaced the democratically elected president in Kiev. It is even more outrageous when the US arm of the global gangster syndicate and it’s stooges in Congress cannot even see fit to extend long-term unemployment benefits for the millions that their schemes threw out of work and shipped jobs overseas by the tens of thousands.

The same Congress, having firmly established itself as the preeminent number one enemy of the American people will gladly cough up the dough to back the unelected Yatsenyuk junta and are itching for a rumble with Russia being the back-benching badasses that they are. Despite the ongoing kabuki theater of irreconcilable partisan squabbling preventing anything from getting done that actually benefits American citizens there is always damned near lockstep unity whenever it comes to backing illegitimate overthrows of democratically elected leaders, saving the day for the bloated, bloodsucking Wall Street parasites and their European counterparts to keep the big floating crap game of the ‘global economy’ afloat and filling the coffers of the merchants of death in the armaments business.  The belicosity and posturing that emanates from that reeking whorehouse that is the US Capitol for a confrontation with the reviled Vladimir Putin, ostensibly over the toppling of the legitimate Ukranian government and Russia’s moves in Crimea but truly the festering scorn over Putin’s sinking of the late summer war on Syria as well as saving NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden from one of Obama’s torture chambers. The overthrow of the Yanukoyvch government is just business as usual for the new world order of crushing austerity enforced at the end of a gun that is the now fully mutated version of western finance capitalism.

Wednesday’s public relations scam as Yatsenyuk was trotted out for public consumption is another bright shining example of how regular Americans have gotten the shaft while the ravenous war machine, the deep state and the high-rolling predatory jackals in high finance continue to plunder with impunity. The obvious lies of the big dog and pony show of polishing this latest turd of a tool of the empire is exemplified in this textbook masterpiece of blatant propaganda from the New York Times entitled “Ukraine’s New Premier, the ‘Rabbit,’ Seems to Be in His Element”  written by some dipshit named David Herszenhorn  (with “reporting” by Oksana Lyachynska) from which I excerpt the following gut-wrenching passage:

For three months, throughout the uprising and upheaval in Kiev, Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk was one of three political leaders who appeared regularly on stage in Independence Square, but he often seemed out of his element. A former foreign minister, economics minister, speaker of Parliament and acting central bank chief, he is more at home in boardrooms and in the corridors of power than on the barricades.

Now, two weeks after his colleagues in Parliament named him acting prime minister — a job he called “political suicide” even before Russia invaded Crimea — Mr. Yatsenyuk, 39, is in a role that suits him better than that of street revolutionary, but that has thrust him to the center of the crisis.

On Wednesday, he met in Washington with President Obama and other top officials to plead for economic and political assistance.

Among Ukrainians who like to talk politics, Mr. Yatsenyuk is often known as “Rabbit” because of an uncanny resemblance to the character in the Soviet cartoon version of “Winnie the Pooh” — lanky, bald and wearing a distinctive pair of eyeglasses. Derided as an uninspiring technician during a failed presidential campaign in 2010, Mr. Yatsenyuk is now said by some Ukrainians to be the right man at the right moment.

And that is only the beginning of over 1,100 vomit inducing words of one of the most transparent and dishonest pieces of dreck that I have run across lately which says one hell of a lot considering the daily fusillade of horseshit that has been churned out of the presstitutes and wordsmiths over the illegal coup in Kiev.  The “Winnie the Pooh” comparison says it all in that the “Rabbit” or as “Yats” as the adoring Ms. Nuland  (suspiciously sounding as though she wants to blow the guy) refers to him bears absolutely zero resemblance to the famous and beloved children’s character created by British author A.A. Milne but acquired by the unscrupulous mega-money machine Disney Corporation. You would think that such a prominent outlet of the dead tree media in the NYT could at least hire reliable hacks with a fucking clue when it comes to churning out puff pieces on US installed tinhorn dictators. Christ only knows what endearing comparisons could have out of thugs like the avuncular Saddam Hussein had he not gone off the reservation and pissed off the Bushes. The important sentence to take away though is "A former foreign minister, economics minister, speaker of Parliament and acting central bank chief, he is more at home in boardrooms and in the corridors of power than on the barricades” - scumbags like "Yats" don't bother with their own wetwork as there are always ample amounts of goons for hire.  

The ones manning the barricades - and you will never get the truth about it out of the New York Times or any other state-corporate media organ - are fascists, extremists and full blown neo-Nazis and Mr. Obama and the US Congress are about to shower them and “Yats” with billions of dollars in money. This is money that has been stolen  away from the American people to reinforce a corrupt system that enriches only those who can afford to buy their way into the rigged game as well as those who do their dirty work for their thirty pieces of bloody silver. There is an ongoing and desperate attempt by the in the bag media to paint all accounts of the neo-Nazi filth in Ukraine as nothing other than Putin propaganda but that is all just so much state distilled sturm and drang to be peddled to the rubes. When a hugely influential US Senator such as John McCain is photographed in Kiev right before the shit hit the fan posing next to a vile seig-heiling piece of human excrement such as Oleh Tyahnybok of the extremist Svoboda party the pin the tail on the Putin devil evaporates like a fart in a stiff wind. The history of US alliances with Nazis in the interest of big money and the always convenient excuse of fighting communism as as long as it is sordid with the documented instances of Operation Paperclip where Nazi war criminals were welcomed to America with open arms as well as the CIA assimilation of Hitler's top Eastern European intelligence guy General Reinhard Gehlen while not widely known are matters of historical fact. Hell, thanks to the pathologically degenerate wanton criminality of such influential figures in the post-WW II years as the famed Allen Dulles supporting Nazis is about as American as apple pie.

Obama is a serious war criminal - the breaking news that his White House has been complicit in covering up CIA torture programs suddenly brought to national attention by the ranting of hypocritical Senator Dianne Feinstein on the floor of the Senate this week proves that beyond any benefit of the doubt of the 'good intentions' of one of his drone strikes. It should not surprise anyone who truly pays attention to the flagrantly illegal ongoing actions of the psychopaths who have slithered their way into power in this once great country that every last one of the bitches and bastards are as corrupt as their illicit Ukraine counterparts and in throwing in with neo-Nazis and immoral high-finance pirates they have permanently stained all of that which we once stood for, pissing away for profit and self-aggrandizement of the sacrifices of those who died fighting the real Nazis for that now permanently defiled Orwellian term that is "democracy".

How is that apple pie smelling these days?

The Ugly American: Obama Throws Tantrum over Ukraine

There was once a time when I thought that the prospects of a Sarah Palin presidency were the blood thirsty old bastard McCain to have kicked the bucket had he beaten Barack Obama in 2008 would be the end of the world as we know it. But in now watching this current reckless administration careening around I have to admit that I was likely wrong. Palin was an abject moron but it is precisely that quality which would have limited the amount of damage that she would do in that she would have been kept a good distance from the nuclear launch codes and relegated to a purely figurehead role while the adults actually ran the show. Hell, if George W. Bush didn’t manage to blow up the planet in eight years we could have muddled through under the brief tenure of the ‘Killa from Wasilla’ until a suitable replacement was put into office. Now I fear that with the actions of the inexperienced, incompetent narcissist Obama who has been locked in an ugly feud with Russia’s Vladimir Putin - that began with the granting of asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and then boiled over with his intervening to stop the Obama-Kerry attack on Syria –it is Obama himself that is the greatest threat to this country that exists today.

Real leaders don’t throw tantrums as Obama is doing with his overreaction to Putin sending his military into Crimea after the western backed coup d’etat in Kiev dislodged the democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych in favor of a western puppet. Obama has denounced Putin and dispatched Secretary of Skull and Bones John Kerry to Ukraine to shore up U.S. support for the illicit government that was put into power after gangs of violent fascist thugs including neo-Nazis turned the streets of Kiev into a fire illuminated bonfire of anarchy. Pissed off over years of obstruction and warfare with a corrupt GOP that is desperate to wrest controls of the corporate spoils system away, humiliated by the unconstitutional rampage of his NSA Stasi that Snowden revealed, saddled with an economy that only can function with the ongoing anal raping of the American taxpayer to funnel  tens of billions of dollars a month into a failed system of Wall Street gambling and surrounded by lackeys and sycophants Barry is going berserk over being once again punked by Putin. 

El Presidente  just cancelled "trade and investment" talks with Russia and his Secretary of State has been threatening to oust Russia from the G8 entirely, the Pentagon has also suspended military ties and they are just getting warmed up. Obama can't be happy this morning after once again being used as a foot-stool by Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and like the drunken bully who takes it out by drop-kicking the poor dog or smacking the wife and kids around after a bad day at work is hellbent on doing the same to Putin. The problem though is that when it comes to experience and actual leadership Barry is strictly in the bush leagues when it comes to playing ball against a seasoned veteran. Putin will take the early 'rope a dope' flurry of blows delivered by the petulant head of a rapidly impotent global bully and will ultimately turn the tables therefore inflicting yet more embarrassment and indignity upon The Homeland. He is already upping the ante by rightfully stating that Yanukovych was taken out by an "unconstitutional coup" and referencing that place where the corrupt western media will not go - that the putsch was assisted by fascist hooligans and neo-Nazi thugs: “I agree with Maidan’s demand for cardinal change in power … but there is the danger that a fascist element will come to the fore, and some anti-semite will come to power” - according to The Guardian.

Oh, and he is threatening to cut off gas exports. In a thinly veiled threat against the prospective members of Obama's  'coalition of the willing' to punish Putin with economic sanctions Gazprom made it known that Europe would find itself increasingly dependent on Russian gas in the years to come.  We will soon see just who has the stomach to indulge Obama's latest outbreak of childishness. 

The old warhorse himself Pat Buchanan (whom I don’t always agree with) calls a spade a spade with his latest column on the Obama hissy fit enabled by the neocon embeds within state institutions such as the media. The piece is entitled “Tune Out the War Party!” from which I excerpt:

With Vladimir Putin’s dispatch of Russian troops into Crimea, our war hawks are breathing fire. Russophobia is rampant and the op-ed pages are ablaze here.

Barack Obama should tune them out, and reflect on how Cold War presidents dealt with far graver clashes with Moscow.

When Red Army tank divisions crushed the Hungarian freedom fighters in 1956, killing 50,000, Eisenhower did not lift a finger. When Khrushchev built the Berlin Wall, JFK went to Berlin and gave a speech.

When Warsaw Pact troops crushed the Prague Spring in 1968, LBJ did nothing. When, Moscow ordered Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski to smash Solidarity, Ronald Reagan refused to put Warsaw in default.

These presidents saw no vital U.S. interest imperiled in these Soviet actions, however brutal. They sensed that time was on our side in the Cold War. And history has proven them right.

-AND-

The Washington Post calls Putin’s move a “naked act of armed aggression in the center of Europe.” The Crimea is in the center of Europe? We are paying a price for our failure to teach geography.

The Post also urges an ultimatum to Putin: Get out of Crimea, or we impose sanctions that could “sink the Russian financial system.”

While we and the EU could cripple Russia’s economy and bring down her banks, is this wise? What if Moscow responds by cutting off credits to Ukraine, calling in Kiev’s debts, refusing to buy her goods and raising the price of oil and gas?

This would leave the EU and us with responsibility for a basket-case nation the size of France and four times as populous as Greece. Are Angela Merkel and the EU ready to take on that load, after bailing out the PIIGS – Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain?

If we push Russia out of the tent, to whom do we think Putin will turn, if not China?

This is not a call to ignore what is going on, but to understand it and act in the long-term interests of the United States.

Many things can be said about Buchanan, both good and bad but what cannot be denied is that he has been there before when it comes to geopolitics particularly as a crucial member of the Nixon administration and accompanied Tricky Dick to China back when Obama had barely grown out of wearing diapers.  His advice should be heeded as that of any rational person when it comes to this rapidly escalating and thoroughly unnecessary pissing contest between Obama and Putin.

I don't have much confidence in the adults intervening in time to prevent Barry from soiling himself once again on the world stage.

(Image: patdollard.com)