Asia Times Online :: Vlad the Hammer vs Obama the Wimp

Asia Times Online :: Vlad the Hammer vs Obama the Wimp
By Pepe Escobar
Make a plan; then make another plan. Both won't work.

- Bertolt Brecht
Brechtian distancing tells us that "ridiculous" does not even begin to describe it. The Cold War mentality is actually impregnated in the Beltway genes - from Capitol Hill to the Pentagon.
The cluelessness of the Obama administration - not to mention US Think Tankland - cannot be overemphasized. Nobody in the Beltway has articulated a sound Russian policy - apart from demonizing Putin. That suits Vlad the Hammer fine; he's busy carefully constructing a new strategic reality not only in Europe's periphery but at the core as well. Russia is back - with a bang.


In this larger scheme of things, drifting towards a post-Post Cold War environment, the Snowden affair is just a piece of the puzzle. And here's where the personal perfectly mirrors the political. Vlad the Hammer knows exactly what he's doing - while Obama the wimp looks like a deer caught in a Trans-Siberian locomotive's headlights
Here's  some  cool headed  sanity. Please  disregard  the  earlier  two posts... my  bad.