Richard Fernandez summarizes the disintegration of US-Russian relations. The situation in the Ukraine is dismal and in an attempt to weaken US relations with Europe Russia leaked the "f__k the EU" quote from a state department official. And on top of this problem there is the failure of US policy in the Middle East and Iran.
The irony is that Obama campaigned on the platform of “smart diplomacy.” But as things have turned out, he was smart only in his own mind.
Under his watch the 70-year-old Pax Americana has fallen apart. Al-Qaeda has flourished. President Benigno Aquino of the Philippines caught the tone of rising concern when he warned, in an interview with the New York Times, that China was doing to Southeast Asia what Nazi Germany did to Central Europe in the late 1930s. “At what point do you say, ‘Enough is enough’? Well, the world has to say it — remember that the Sudetenland was given in an attempt to appease Hitler to prevent World War II.”
Scary times.
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