By
Joseph
Klein
President
Obama dismissed Russia as no more than a "regional power" in remarks
he made to the press in The Hague on March 25th, where he was attending a
summit meeting on nuclear security. "Russia is a regional power that is
threatening some of its immediate neighbors - not out of strength, but out of
weakness," he said.
True,
the Russian Federation is a shadow of the Soviet empire in its heyday. And
Russia is not driven by a global Communist ideology that it seeks to spread to
every part of the world in opposition to the capitalist democratic model, as
the Soviet Union tried to do. But that does not make Russia a weak neighborhood
bully posing little threat beyond its "immediate neighbors," as
President Obama seems to think. Mitt Romney was right when he said during the
2012 presidential campaign that Russia is "our number one geopolitical
foe." [more...]
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