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Patience... We are a little more than a week into the crisis, and already Russia has already gotten itself more than just fights with Georgia--but also issued creepy threats to Poland over missiles, and to the Ukraine over naval bases. Putin has galvanized into panic most of Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, prompted a radical change of policy in the United States, and embarrassed its ...
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Is Putin Overreaching?
The Sundries Shack — ... is exposing itself to a strike - 100 per cent,” he was quoted as saying… Russia seems to be going out of its way to antagonize as many of its former satellite states as it can as well as the normally incredibly meek European Union. I am not sure why since the reactions have been exactly the opposite of the sort of fawning fear Russia normally wants from its vassals. Victor Davis Hanson, one of the keenest geopolitical observers we have is counseling… Patience… We are a little more than a week into ...

Hugh Hewitt: Obama In The Deep End
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall BlogVictor Davis Hanson notes what the world saw this past week --a Democratic nominee in way over his head : Obama initially sounded like the therapeutic high-school principal and his 'zero-tolerance' doctrine of moral equivalence as he expels both the victim and the bully; but his calls for UN solutions, talks with equally at fault parties, and apparent trust in the wisdom of the EU and the power of NATO may not just scare Eastern Europeans but even those 200,000 who deified him at Berlin. Get, read and pass on Freddoso's book: ...

Hugh Hewitt: Obama In The Deep End
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall BlogVictor Davis Hanson notes what the world saw this past week --a Democratic nominee in way over his head : Obama initially sounded like the therapeutic high-school principal and his 'zero-tolerance' doctrine of moral equivalence as he expels both the victim and the bully; but his calls for UN solutions, talks with equally at fault parties, and apparent trust in the wisdom of the EU and the power of NATO may not just scare Eastern Europeans but even those 200,000 who deified him at Berlin. Get, read and pass on Freddoso's book: ...

LIVE FROM NEW YORK! IT'S THE CARNIVAL OF THE INSANITIES !
Dr. Sanity — ... I mean the ...Russian invasion. The ubiquitous "But". Popeye McCain: Too bellicose? Off to see the Wizard! 4. Ok, where's Code Pinko and the antiwar robots when you need them? Parroting the Russian line, of course. Coming soon to a former soviet republic near you! 5. Seems they've been going out of their way lately just to prove why the shield is necessary. It's still 'trust but verify' Russian statecraft meets Western appeasement head on, once again. Back to the future. 6. Postcard ...

LIVE FROM NEW YORK! IT'S THE CARNIVAL OF THE INSANITIES !
Dr. Sanity — ... I mean the ...Russian invasion. The ubiquitous "But". Popeye McCain: Too bellicose? Off to see the Wizard! 4. Ok, where's Code Pinko and the antiwar robots when you need them? Parroting the Russian line, of course. Coming soon to a former soviet republic near you! 5. Seems they've been going out of their way lately just to prove why the shield is necessary. It's still 'trust but verify' Russian statecraft meets Western appeasement head on, once again. Back to the future. 6. Postcard ...

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