The First “Generated Crisis” of The Obama Era
It appears that the Russians have decided to jump the gun on Joe Biden’s promise of a generated international crisis to test this new President who has no experience that would qualify him for the challenges of the office he just won.
The London Telegraph reports:
In what appeared to be a deliberate attempt to rattle the president-elect, Mr Medvedev said that short-range Iskander surface-to-surface missiles would be stationed in Russia’s baltic exclave of Kaliningrad, which borders EU states Poland and Lithuania.
Delivering his most aggressively anti-American speech yet, Mr Medvedev said he was ordering the deployment in retaliation to a missile defense shield that the United States wants to build in central Europe by 2011.
Medvedev also threatened to use “radioelectronic equipment” to disable American/Nato radar systems that would identify incoming missiles to be knocked out by the missile defense shield.
None of this can happen overnight, and it may turn out to be idle bellicosity, meant more to encourage Russian pride and nationalism. But if President-elect Obama equivocates or signals irresolution he will most certainly bring forth more of the same from the rest of the world’s bad actors. Idle bellicosity could morph into military probes. America could well be engulved in multiple, urgent, new international crises by the time President Obama takes the oath of office in January.
Russia risks virtually nothing by making these threats. But Barack Obama’s decision as to how to respond will be fraught with risk. Let us pray he or someone advising him is up to the challenge.
NEWS REPORT:
In response to Medvedev, President-elect Obama said “we are the ones we have been waiting for.” Thousands of adoring fans cheered.
With regard to Poland, Mr. Obama said my administration will provide “hope” to all the world, and I intend to spread the wealth to the Poles as well as all suppressed peoples. Again, thousands cheered.
When notified that Poland’s was just incineration, Mr. Obama complained “can’t I just eat my waffle?”
Oh … he’ll just go have a “sit-down” with his fellow comrades … a sad day in America indeed. Heck, I’d take Kucinich over Obama in a heart beat!