[TheRealThing]

Putin is making both Obama and Kerry look like the fools that they are. He is also making Mitt Romney look prophetic. Obama ridiculed Romney for describing Russia as the greatest global threat to the U.S. during the campaign. Romney is a smart man. Obama? Not so much.

I am one of those on this forum who misses Hoot Gibson. I just want to remind folks once again, that we passed on Mitt Romney for another 4 year stint with Obama. Obviously, Romney had it right and Obama had it wrong, again. I'll be interested to see how the Dems manage to spin the Russian invasion of the Ukraine into some kind of positive. And, you know they will.

So far today, at least 2,000 troops have landed in two Ukrainian airports that had just been secured by advance paramilitary forces. In response, Sec of State John Kerry uttered the six scariest words in the world. "We are monitoring the situation closely." I mean, we already saw how effective those words were in Syria, right?

I also heard the words "grave consequences" being bandied about today from the Executive Branch. In military parlance that means an all out military response. Those are fightin words to say the least, and we dare not use them lightly or, when we have no intention of actually backing up the rhetoric.

In short, this idea that Russia is somehow a toothless tiger, is so patently absurd as to defy justification at any level. Further, the arguments being put forward which pooh-pooh large scale military confrontations as passé and obsolete, are equally the work product born of hash pipe philosophers. Therefore, today's events expose the proposed cuts to the US military as suggested by sock puppet Sec of Defense Chuck Hagel, as naïve and amateurish. But, that is par for the course of late, is it not?