So the hawks need to stop obsessing over Obama's alleged weakness, and instead look overseas. The truth is that Obama has been one of the most aggressive of the Western leaders in the fight against Putin, while it's Merkel and her colleagues who have insisted on a less confrontational approach. If John McCain and his buddies want to arm the Ukrainians, they need to figure out a way to persuade Merkel that it's the right thing to do. That might be less congenial for their tea party buddies, whose interest in Ukraine is pretty much zero aside from its role as a way of painting Obama as a weak-kneed appeaser, but it's the only way they might get what they say they want.
So that's their choice. Continue bashing Obama, which feels good but will get them nowhere. Or start pressing our European allies, which is boring and difficult and pays no political dividends—but which might actually get them closer to what they claim is their goal. Which is it going to be, boys?All John McCain has done so far is insult Angela Merkel.
Mother Jones
Arming Ukraine? Sorry, but Europe Simply Isn't On Board
Kevin Drum
2 comments:
On board, shmom board. The europeans are vassals. They'll do whatever Washington tells them to do.
Until they don't. Everything has its breaking point. The EZ is at the point of unraveling and NATO has already served its purpose and is an anachronism. Now it's just a neoliberal tool of Wall Street and the City.
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