British Press- Obama the ‘Looney Tunes President’…

It is very puzzling that Obama would keep on selling out long term US interests for the sake of scoring cheap popularity points on the global stage. What is even more puzzling is that the US media has for the most part chosen to ignore his shenanigans.

Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev

Thankfully, members of the British press, in their role as a distant observers are more objective, here is what one of them has to say about Obama’s visit to Russia where he pro-actively reduced our nuclear capacity just to please the Kremlin …

Now if only someone would do same about his caving to Iran, but for now that’s wishful thinking…

The best paragraph:

For Obama, success is not the delivery of watertight nuclear security for America; it is a feel-good news conference and photo opportunity that will create huge approval ratings on liberal campuses where the delusions of 1968 and the anti-Vietnam war movement still linger on in these isolated Jurassic Parks.

The full article: UK Telegraph

No apologies for posting consecutively on Barack Obama: the Looney Tunes President’s sell-out of US and Western interests is proceeding at such a speed that it is difficult to keep pace. Well said, Nile Gardiner, for asking if Barack Obama is the most naïve president in American history. The answer is undoubtedly yes – unless he has a secret agenda to cut America down to size.

It was always in Russia that Obama threatened to do most damage and, as Nile Gardiner has rightly pointed out, these forebodings have been fulfilled. His supposed missile deal with Vladimir Putin (let’s cut straight to the organ-grinder and by-pass Medvedev, the monkey) is very satisfactory to Russian ambitions and realpolitik.

The nuclear power balance, as at 2007, was a Russian superiority of 2,146 land-launched nuclear warheads to 1,600 US; this was counterbalanced by a US superiority of 3,168 sea-launched US warheads to 1,392 Russian and 1,098 air-launched US warheads to 624 Russian. What should also be factored in is the leaking, deteriorating, rust-bucket condition of some of Russia’s deterrent ordnance, although it has already decommissioned the most basket-case Soviet weaponry. The bottom line, however, is that it is Russia which is now in the lead in ICBM development, not America.

For America voluntarily to reduce its nuclear superiority is madness. Bien-pensant talk of a nuclear-free world displays total stupidity in a global situation where nuclear weaponry is proliferating, not receding. There is even a nuclear bomb in Pakistan, which is teetering on the brink of failed statehood at the hands of Islamist insurgents. Is this a time for America to disarm, to “sell the store” as one trenchant right-wing commentator has already described Obama’s posturing in Moscow?

It seems certain Obama will sacrifice the anti-missile shield in Europe that would have been our defence against a nuclear Iran after the ayatollahs, with Russian help, emerge as potential vapourising agents of the infidel. The interceptor missiles do not even carry warheads: they rely on an impact at 14,900mph to destroy any incoming missile, so Russian hysteria about this “threat” is synthetic.

Where I disagree with Nile Gardiner is on restricting the expansion of Nato. The alliance always relied for its effectiveness on being a compact group of mature nations. The alliance’s “All for one, one for all” philosophy means that if Georgia had been a Nato member last year when its irresponsible president so conveniently provoked Russia, the consequences could have been disastrous. Allow Russia her sphere of influence, but do not drop the West’s guard. With our own Dave Cameron flaky on renewal of Trident, Obama’s fire-sale diplomacy augurs ill for our future.

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