I THINK THIS IS AN EMBARRASSING PHOTO. IT’S EMBARRASSING TO AMERICA. NOT OBAMA.
on 07/08/2009 at 10:44 AM
I recall seeing this on another blog as I was surfing around.
Posted by harleycowboy58
07/08/2009 at 02:20 PM
the white guy looks genuinly embarassed to be pawed by the low life scum he had to share the stage with.
Posted by Chris Edwards
07/08/2009 at 05:46 PM
He looks like he can’t decide whether to go wash his hand, or bitch slap Obummer off the stage. Either would have been great.
I’m shocked, shocked I say that The One (tm) is not smiling at the camera. I have to agree - for all those body language people - a picture is screaming a thousand words - and none of them are positive.
This says virtually all that needs to be said about Russia’s perception of the West today.
When the aggressor sees weakness or equivalence, they only lash out with greater fervor.
And to think that, in the meantime, we have countless idiots yelling about how we “should not have a new Crimean War.”
Perhaps not, but it may be the only thing that can do the trick.
Was the Crimean War mishandled, costly, and the result of a very ad-hoc organization?
Yes.
But it must be remembered that it DID stem the tide of Russian Imperial aggression in the Balkans and Caucasus for twenty years (until 1878, when France was weakened by Germany, Britain was paralyzed by righteous outrage against Turkish atrocities in the Balkans, and the Italians had long lost interest), and in many places (Central Asia, the Chinese Western Frontier, and Scandanavia) for almost a century. Indeed, perhaps the only tragedy is that the resulting tremors failed to crush the Czarist regime and possibly usher in a Democratic Republic in Moscow or St. Petersburg.
Think about that:
The Western soldiers who fought in the Crimea and in various other flashpoints around the world against the Czar’s armies did so at the end of horrifically long supply lines, with inadaquate amounts of equipment, and without preparation for the rigors of General Winter. They took horrific losses, they often starved for days at a time, and they came very close to being kicked out of the theater (and off the Crimean Peninsula in particular) far more times than any sane commander could be remotely pleased with.
And when we talk about the Turkish Imperial forces in that same conflict, IT GETS EVEN WORSE!
But, working together, they made Russia pay a far heavier toll.
By the end of the war, the Russian Baltic fleet was pinned in by the Franco-British navy, the Baltic forts were far smaller in number and running on scraps, St. Petersburg itself was threatened with bombardment, the Russian Black Sea fleet was utterly destroyed, the major supply station at Azov was shattered by naval bombardments and its supply lines cut, and the great bastion at Stevastopol itself had fallen in an epochal and exceedingly bloody siege, with the loss of virtually all its garrison, their reinforcements, and their supplies.
When the war finally ended, the Russian government TREMBLED at the peace table, and was forced to almost entirely relinquish all presence in the Black Sea.
But more importantly, the presence of that costly and dearly-won victory lingered on.
In 1878, a massive Russian army- aided by Romanian, Serbian, Bulgarian, and Montenegrin auxiliaries and having just finished a comprehensive and almost total victory over the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans- stopped dead near the VERY GATES of an almost undefended Constantinople- THE ANCIENT AND ANCESTRAL GOAL OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE- at the MERE THREAT of Western intervention.
And at that peace, the Western and Central powers were able to FORCE Russia to cede many of its conquests again by the mere threat coupled with some minor “military maneuvers” by the Austrians and Germans.
Compare that with today.
Our military power vastly dwarfs that of the combined empires that threw their best and their elite into battle under-supplied and under-equipped against a vastly more numerous foe in 1853.
Back then, it was several days to travel by sea form Constantinople to the Crimea.
Today, the same journey can be made in hours.
To be fair, the Russian military has vastly expanded from the force that the West vanquished on the Crimea and in many far-flung theaters back in 1853, and there remains the ever-present threat of nuclear apocalypse, but their demographics are far worse than they were a century and a half ago, and even if they win, they will probably loose from that factor alone in the long run.
But in spite of our vast advantages, we have tripe like THIS popping up to see how little Moscow thinks of our promises and our declarations.
What was the difference from the armed victory in 1853 and the simple, direct declarations in 1878 to today?
Two things.
One, the Russians no longer fear Western retribution like they did back then, at a time before bombs, before planes, when the Western powers would largely be unable to penetrate into Russia’s interior.
The second is that they believe- for all their many, many, many issues- that they still can carve out a world in their vision, and what is more that they have the upper hand.
And yet these “war is not the answer” maroons have the NERVE to demand we appease these butchers, and have the outrageous gall to demand we follow the same, toothless resolutions that led to disaster in the 20’s and 30’s and late 50’s-60’s?
This picture says it all.
TO ALL FREE PEOPLES AND THE PEOPLE OF THE WEST INPARTICULAR: WILL YOU COUNTERANCE RUSSIAN TYRANNY OVER EASTERN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA WITHOUT SO MUCH AS A SINGLE WESTERN SHOT BEING FIRED AGAINST IT? WILL YOU ALLOW THE ABOMINATIONS OF YALTA AND WARSAW TO BE RESURRECTED? OR WILL YOU ACT IN THE MOLD OF 1853 AND 1946 DRIVE BACK THE VANGUARD OF RUSSIAN DESPOTISM FROM THE BLACK SEA AND THE CAUCASUS?
It is your choice. I hope you have the steel to do what is right.
But remember this picture, for it shows the future unless we stand and fight and win.
For it portrays a despot and a slave, not distinguished by race, by ethnicity, by melanin count, or by any other physical factor.
And to those of you who accuse me of racism with this allegory, I must state that race or one’s ethnicity does not matter in this matter, and I would feel confident saying this if it were Mineta, or Bush, or either of the Clintons in Obama’s place.
The slaves the Russian regime seeks to take in Eastern Europe shall be mostly white, after all. And the Islamists in Africa see no issue in taking any of any race under their thrall.
It is time to unite or die.
Posted by Turtler
07/09/2009 at 08:18 PM
