Criticism of Russia Turns into Farce

The Obama Administration has been making it up as it went a long for quite some time in its criticism of Russia. But now it’s line on Russia has passed over into crude caricature that obviously isn’t true to anyone who knows anything about Russia at all. Of course, the Obama administration knows that the average American rube knows nothing at all about Russia and may fall for ridiculous assertions like these:

Obama downplayed Moscow’s role in the world, dismissing Russian President Vladimir Putin as a leader causing short-term trouble for political gain that will hurt Russia in the long term.

“I do think it is important to keep perspective. Russia doesn’t make anything,” Obama said in the interview.

Obama told Putin last week that he believes Russia violated the 1988 Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces treaty designed to eliminate ground-launched cruise missiles.

Speaking of Russia’s “regional challenges,” Obama said in the interview: “We have to make sure that they don’t escalate where suddenly nuclear weapons are back in the discussion of foreign policy.”

They don’t make anything? They make pretty good weapons. Oh, and all that natural gas that Europe depends on utterly is, I guess, just a figment of someone’s imagination. Oh, and there’s all that oil, and the fact that Russia controls more than 1/3rd of the world’s nickel, to name just one natural resource Russia has tons of. Yep, Russia barely exists at all.

And I hate to break it to DC, but Russia hosts the world’s largest population of immigrants after the United States. They have so many immigrants in fact that cracking down on illegal immigrants is an important domestic political issue there. Of course, this view of immigration just repeats an American fantasy that people don’t emigrate to anywhere except the United States.

Obama of course then accuses Russia of being reckless with nukes even though, unlike the US, Russia has never nuked anybody.

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