The President and his handlers know exactly how to handle Ukraine. Don’t think they’ll be harmed by any Russian advances. Their only concern is how not to be hurt by it politically at home. The only thing he ever cared about internationally was reducing Israel which backfired when Netanyahu schooled him and the horse he rode in on, live on worldwide television. No, the threat is an awakening American population. Not that I think that will happen. Just that’s the threat.
Long term, he will find ways to paint American conservatives as “little Putins”. The worse things are for Ukraine, the better off the politics will go for this administration, down the road. All he has to do is make it through the urgent phase of this without getting schooled in public. So the whole thing hinges on the media. Expect a distraction on the scale of the Petraeus/Broadwell affair, and a whole lot of “analysis” saying of the Ukraine that it really *is* Russia’s back yard, and how would we like it, and that’s their people, borders are just lines on a map, and so forth.
I am sure that the administration is pretty agitated right now. These are unscripted events that they must deal with, and they don’t like dealing with things. But they are good at it, as it affords them opportunities to push unrelated agendas. Never let a crisis go to waste.
Tags: Ukraine, Vladimir Putin
