Actual Collusion with Russia that is Actually Harmful to America.

Environmental groups collude with Russia to hinder fracking.

The funny thing is that prior to the Dems Conversion to "Red-baiting" in January, no conservative could have pointed to this for fear of being accused of "McCarthyism" and the media would have written it off as "unhinged paranoia."

But now it is open for discussion.

Winning!

This is the most important thing to realize about the American Left....

...thanks to the influence of Communists and former Communists, the central tenet of the Left is that Party trumps everything else, the nation, neighbors, principles, everything that is not the Party.

For eight years, the Party has decreed that Russia is not an adversary, so anti-missile defences to Poland get cancelled, there is a magical "reset button" and Obama assures Vlad that "after the election he can be more flexible."

But screw with the Party and that is serious!!!

//Barack Obama has spent the last eight years resisting the idea that Russia is an adversary of the United States. First we had the “reset”; next the cancellation of the Eastern European missile shield; then we had Obama assuring President Medvedev that he would be able to give away the store, but the Russians would need to wait for his second term; and then the presidential debate where Obama mocked Mitt Romney’s statement that Russia is our number one geopolitical rival by saying that the 1980s called, and they want their foreign policy back. In between, we had a foreign policy that was supine in the face of Russian aggression in Crimea and Ukraine.

Now, in a typically head-snapping 180-degree turnabout, Obama and his fellow Democrats portray Republicans as soft on Communism Russia. It’s a throwback to the 1970s, but with the parties’ roles reversed.

In his press conference today, Obama described the stern measures he supposedly took after learning that the Russian government was involved in breaking into Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s email account:

And so in early September when I saw President Putin in China, I felt that the most effective way to ensure that that did not happen was to talk to him directly and tell him to cut it out, there were going to be some serious consequences if he did not.

And in fact, we did not see further tampering of the election process. But the leaks through Wikileaks had already occurred.

So all it took, apparently, was for President Obama to tell Vladimir Putin to cut it out.

This is what I don’t understand: in October 2014, the Russian government hacked into both the White House’s and the State Department’s computer systems. For an unknown period of time, weeks if not months, the Russians were reading White House and State Department emails–a far more significant security breach than the accounts of Debbie Wasserman Schultz and John Podesta. The Obama administration never did discover that its communications had been compromised, but an ally (I suspect it was Israel) alerted the administration to the Russian intrusion. The White House’s computer system was down for weeks while experts tried to deal with the Russian hack and improve security.//

Slow-walking to Poland 1939

China and Russia are having naval drills in the China sea...

...North Korea is setting off nuclear bombs...

...and now this.

Good thing we have a Nobel peace-prize winning, certified smartest man with the very best diplomatic instincts rather than that fargin cowboy.

I guess when Obama said "Tell Vlad after the election, I can be more flexible", he didn't think he meant selling out the sacred national interests of...

...Islamic extremist.

So, now, he's suddenly a "tough guy"?

History of Socialism...

...shopping in the Soviet Union, circa 1990.

Good times....good times....

Mitt Romney was right.

Hey, Obama, the '80s are calling; it wants its Cold War back.

Putin names United States as threat.

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news....

Can you imagine how this would have led to media hyperventilation if it had happened in 2006?

But now.....easy-peasy.

Glenn Reynolds writes:

//ORDINARILY I’D FIND THIS VERY WORRISOME, BUT WITH THE KERRY/OBAMA FOREIGN POLICY TEAM ON THE JOB, WELL: Russian Su-24 fighter jet shot down over Syria.

Related: Vladimir Putin says shooting down of Russian jet by Turkey was ‘stab in the back.’ Turkey is a crappy NATO ally these days, but it’s still a NATO member. If not for that, I’d sit back and buy popcorn for the Putin/Erdogan pissing match. But. . .//

Hey!  They don't give Nobel Peace Prizes out to just anyone!

Remember when Obama was caught on camera cravenly telling the Russian ambassador "Tell Vlad that I will have more flexibility after the election."?

A.  Did we ever find out what that was about?

B.  Did anyone in the media ask him about it?

C.  Did anyone not see this as the result of such craven fawning?

White House weighing Syrian retreat.

6 years of "smart diplomacy" have brought us to this.

Russia and America: Stumbling to War

Hey, let's put the "Reset Lady" in charge!!!

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news...

...such as the re-assembly of the Russian Empire and the defeat of a pro-Western country.

//Make no mistake about this. The settlement is a deeply damaging blow to our values, to our prestige and to our geopolitical interests. The foolish and distracted Western policies that encouraged Ukraine into a confrontation with Russia in which the West was unwilling to back it; the shameful and feckless mix of triumphalist rhetoric and minimalist action; the cluelessness in the face of Putin’s skillful mastery of Western psychology and divisions; the miserable consequences of all this for the Ukrainian state: every country, every leader in the world has been paying close attention.

Historians, by the way, will also pay attention; the Obama legacy has been permanently tarnished. Unless some real changes take place, neither this President nor his close associates will cut an impressive figure when the accounts are drawn up.

The West may yet get its act together and come up with a coherent response to a war of naked aggression by an ugly despotism on its doorstep, but it would take more determination and imagination than is currently on display.

In the meantime, the Ukrainians are doing the only thing they can; like Hitler’s victims in the 1930s they are signing away territory and rights that they cannot defend and reflecting on the value of all those inspiring promises of support they received from their Western friends back when times were good and the bear was far away.//

But, you know, apres 2016, le deluge.

America - Now with even more hope and change - 

Thank you, President Obama!

// More relevant is the fact that Russia’s nuclear arsenal is significantly greater than our own and that, within six years, China will have more ships in its navy than we do. China already has more service members.//

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news.

Russia invades Ukraine; Obama expresses concern.

Hey...isn't this like ....you know...bad news?

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news...

...such as war in Europe.


Russia and Ukraine are in something of a shooting war.

Shouldn't this be a matter of come concern to us?

It's a good thing we have a Nobel Prize winner as president instead of that cowboy....

//Putin Lashes Out as Poland Cites Invasion Threat//

That can't be good.

But, hey, it doesn't matter!

Nothing matters as long as we have a Democrat in the White House because ....

...the nice thing about having a Democrat is in the White House is that there is never any bad news.

Ivan discovers socks and showers.

Showers credited with cutting sickness in Russian army.

The Winter War 

Forgotten history - Russia's invasion of Finland in 1939

The Stars Go Over The Lonely Ocean by Robinson Jeffers

Unhappy about some far off things
That are not my affair, wandering
Along the coast and up the lean ridges,
I saw in the evening
The stars go over the lonely ocean,
And a black-maned wild boar
Plowing with his snout on Mal Paso Mountain.

The old monster snuffled, "Here are sweet roots,
Fat grubs, slick beetles and sprouted acorns.
The best nation in Europe has fallen,
And that is Finland,
But the stars go over the lonely ocean,"
The old black-bristled boar,
Tearing the sod on Mal Paso Mountain.

"The world's in a bad way, my man,
And bound to be worse before it mends;
Better lie up in the mountain here
Four or five centuries,
While the stars go over the lonely ocean,"
Said the old father of wild pigs,
Plowing the fallow on Mal Paso Mountain.

"Keep clear of the dupes that talk democracy
And the dogs that talk revolution,
Drunk with talk, liars and believers.
I believe in my tusks.
Long live freedom and damn the ideologies,"
Said the gamey black-maned boar
Tusking the turf on Mal Paso Mountain.

There's nothing like this to make Russians decide to embrace gays as a healthy and contributing part of Russian society.

*Sheesh*

Russian performance artist nails himself to Red Square cobblestone by his TESTICLES in protest at Kremlin's crackdown on rights

Changing world, Dangerous world.

Is Russia "Ending"?

Russia is dying. The once-mighty Russian state is undergoing a catastrophic post-Soviet societal decline. Health standards are abysmal, and life expectancy in Russia is nothing like it is in the West — just age 60 for men (less than in Botswana and Madagascar) and 73 for women, roughly the same as in Saudi Arabia. Alcoholism — the scourge of Soviet society — continues to ravage the country, with a death rate among Russia’s youth that is 35 times higher than among their counterparts in Europe. So does drug addiction. According to United Nations statistics, more than a fifth of all heroin consumed globally every year occurs in Russia. Prevalent, too, is a corrosive culture of abortion, with unofficial estimates placing the number of annual abortions at 2 million to 2.5 million — close to 2 percent of the Russian Federation’s potential population.

In all, the country is contracting by close to half-a-million souls every year owing to both death and the emigration of its citizens (to Europe and beyond). At this rate, according to the Kremlin’s own estimates, Russia could lose a quarter of its population by the middle of this century. It’s a phenomenon that demographers have described as “the emptying of Russia” — a wholesale implosion of Russia’s human capital, and a collapse of its prospects as a viable modern state.

Is this real?

Putin orders attacks on Saudi Arabia if Obama attacks Syria.

A grim “urgent action memorandum” issued today from the office of President Putin to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is ordering a “massive military strike” against Saudi Arabia in the event that the West attacks Syria.

According to Kremlin sources familiar with this extraordinary “war order,” Putin became “enraged” after his early August meeting with Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan who warned that if Russia did not accept the defeat of Syria, Saudi Arabia would unleash Chechen terrorists under their control to cause mass death and chaos during the Winter Olympics scheduled to be held 7-23 February 2014 in Sochi, Russia.

It's a good thing we have a Nobel Prize winner for President instead of that cowboy.

Russian foreign minister tells US to behave 'like grown-ups'

The chill in relations between the US and Russia grew still frostier yesterday as President.Vladimir Putin's foreign minister told the White House to start behaving like "grown-ups".