VDH on the Reemergence of the Evil Empire

The Oracle speaks:

No love for O in Mother Russia

Wow - talk about being unpopular!

Good thing our stature overseas has been so wonderfully improved! So how is that "reset" button gig working for you now?

More hopey change we can believe in!

Russia to train and upgrade Cuban military

Oh there's some good news! This one almost got past me over the weekend - but the Miami Herald actually reported the story.

Obama: "Gosh, geez Vladimir, I want to show you how nice I am...I am not going to protect Eastern Europe from you!"

Putin: "Ees good - I vill revard you by trhaining Cooban military."

Obama: "See, I knew we could get along!"

Putin: "Simpleton."

American Press Headline: "Obama scores major victory over Russians" Sub-head: "Russians to aid Cuban economy to reduce boat people population."

The reality - something simp-libs are blissfully unaware of:

``Although maintaining a military presence in Latin America has logistical and financial problems for Russia, it will still force the United States to address the Russian presence in its backyard,'' wrote Stratfor, a private geopolitical analysis firm based in Austin, Texas.

Moscow may also be interested in reopening the Lourdes electronic eavesdropping facility in Cuba that it closed under U.S. pressures in 2001, wrote Jaime Suchlicki, director of the Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies at the University of Miami.

Makarov has been in Cuba several days leading a delegation that the newspaper Granma reported includes Lt. Gen. Alexander Shlyakhturov, head of the Russian military intelligence agency known as GRU, and Maj. Gen. Vyacheslav M. Proshkin, head of the General Staff's International Military Cooperation department.

The Stratfor report said Makarov declared on Friday that Russia ``will aid Cuba in the near future in modernizing its Soviet-era equipment and in training the country's military personnel'' Makarov also announced ``that preparations are under way for Russian warships to visit Cuba soon,'' the report added

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Getting Rolled

The Russians are great chess players. They bide their time and wait for the opponent to make a mistake...in this case, the mistake is the election of Obama as President of the United States. They have pounced. Knowing that our young, naive waif of a leader can't wait to make a deal - and have the sycophant press trumpet it - they have offered up a doozy in "New START." Sadly, we will not see any Reykjavik moments out of this guy...remember when Ronald the Great stood down Gorbachev and refused to trade SDI? That was then, this is now. With New START, not only will the Russians start to gain parity in delivery systems,they will hobble our conventional delivery superiority as well...you know, the part of the Armed Forces we are using a lot right now to combat Muslim fascists. Remember how the press ridiculed George W. Bush's looking into Putin's soul? Yeah, well Barry O is looking in Putin's eye's apparently and seeing great things. Meanwhile, the Chinese, Iranians and Koreans are smiling and the Japanese are getting very nervous.

This deal and this summit have been a win-win for Putin and Obama though. A win-lose for Russian and the United States. Both get to claim diplomatic triumph! Putin will crow about how he has brought the high-flying eagle to within the bear claw's reach. Obama will claim it is "peace in our time." And the main-stream press will claim, as the ABC radio reported on Monday, that it is a "blockbuster" deal. With those pesky nuclear weapons out of the way, Barry can get down to what he is apparently really good at: destroying the American economy. He has thrown a bone to the America-hating-left by continuing the arms control "process," and weakening the United States...that ought to give him some street "cred" with those folks to keep them off his back on Iraq and Afghanistan so he can focus on wrecking health care and telling us how to change our light bulbs.