NP - How Putin backed himself into a Ukraine invasion he never wanted

[kelber at mindspring.com]

So the middle is excluded in this situation? You either agree with everything the US has done in the Ukraine, or you're a Putin lover? What would the excluded middle look like? Are people who understand the realpolitik - that a superpower is likely to defend its borders - mere apologists for Putin? Are people who criticize Obama's political strategy in the Ukraine - on any level - Putin lovers? What about the people who hate Obama's military strategy in Iraq? Are we Assad lovers? What happens to the people who find both sides of these conflicts abhorrent? Is there some sort of spectrum where we can exist? Pray tell.

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com>
>Sent: Aug 30, 2014 5:14 PM
>To: "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: NP - How Putin backed himself into a Ukraine invasion he never wanted
>
>The US is much better at the all options are on the table talk, even
>threatening to use "small" or surgical strike nukes. Of course, the US
>has so much on the table, so the threat of a nuclear attack (all
>options) is much more than a threat, it is a reality that other
>options will be deployed. In Putin's world, a threat like this only
>serves to make him look like the idiot the west is now dressing him up
>as, not that it takes much effort to make Putin look like a jackass.
>
>Obama is determined to stay out of the dick wagging contest.  Putin
>will beat himself with his own dick soo enough.
>
> He's also determined to get back into Iraq/Syria, but can't quite
>figure out how to do it. The ISIS cancer stuff is selling hard here
>with the Dems and Repubs both pushing for war. A good essay here
>explains away the ISIS fever and describes a bit of the complexity
>Obama is really up against.
>
>http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/aug/14/iraq-illusions/?insrc=hpma
>
>
>
>
>On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Thomas Eckhardt
><thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>> Am 30.08.2014 16:42, schrieb alice malice:
>>
>>> He has little left but the waving of his nukes at the world.
>>
>>
>> Oh yes. I can hardly wait for Obama to say "Bring 'em on!"
>>
>> Thomas
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