Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Charles Krauthammer op-ed: How to Stop or Slow Putin

The president of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council challenges critics of President Obama’s Ukraine policy by saying, “What are you going to do, send the 101st Airborne into Crimea?” Not exactly subtle. And rather silly, considering that no one has proposed such a thing.
The alternative to passivity is not war but a serious foreign policy. For the past five years, Obama’s fruitless accommodationism has invited the kind of aggressiveness demonstrated by Iran in Syria, China in the East China Sea and Russia in Ukraine. But what’s done is done. Put that aside. What is to be done now? 
We have three objectives. In ascending order of difficulty: 
Reassure NATO. 
We’re already sending U.S. aircraft to patrol the airspace of the Baltic states. That’s not enough. 
● Send the chairman of the Joint Chiefs to the Baltics to arrange joint maneuvers.
● Same for the four NATO countries bordering Ukraine — Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania. 
● Urgently revive the original missile-defense agreements concluded with Poland and the Czech Republic before Obama canceled them unilaterally to appease Russia. (But first make sure that the respective governments are willing to sign on again after Obama left them hanging five years ago.)
Read the rest HERE.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Charlie Chickenhawk Krauthammer