{"id":10005,"date":"2014-03-03T17:14:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T17:14:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-06-17T13:52:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T17:52:55","slug":"clueless_american_leaders_shocked_by_putin_s_attempt_to_reassemble_soviet_union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/03\/03\/clueless_american_leaders_shocked_by_putin_s_attempt_to_reassemble_soviet_union\/","title":{"rendered":"Clueless American Leaders Shocked by Putin\u2019s Attempt to Reassemble Soviet Union"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: We\u2019re gonna get to the Ukraine business, it\u2019s gonna be the focus here. That happens to be the soap opera story. Actually, it\u2019s not the soap opera story. This is Putin running rings around us. There\u2019s no question what\u2019s going on here. Vladimir Putin\u2019s reassembling the Soviet Union. And this is something — I\u2019ve got the sound bite — I predicted this back in 2008. And all the smart money in Washington, inside the Beltway — we\u2019ve got these sound bites, too — they\u2019re shocked that Putin is trying to reassemble the Soviet Union. They can\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n

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Even Lurch — this guy, John Kerry, is shocked that Putin is actually conducting a ground war. Listen to this. Grab number 17. Let\u2019s just get this out of the way \u2019cause I think it\u2019s hilarious and it is indicative of how just outclassed we are. We\u2019re clueless. This generation of leaders is literally clueless about our enemies. Remember something you were taught early on in this program. The purpose of any military is to kill people and break things. It\u2019s not to advance anybody\u2019s social agenda. It\u2019s not a laboratory for the left\u2019s social ideas or playgrounds. It is to kill people and break things, and the second rule is that the aggressor in any conflict sets the rules. And if they violate an existing rule book, then so be it. The aggressor sets the rules, and right now, Putin is setting the rules.<\/p>\n

I went back and did some research. In 1979 when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, \u201979, \u201980, they did it at Christmastime, when we were all distracted. Putin goes into Ukraine, after, by the way, colonizing Georgia. They got Georgia back now. Remember Shalikashvili and South Ossetia? Well, they got Georgia back and they\u2019re marching now. And when did Putin do it? He sent the troops in during the Olympics that he hosted, that NBC televised and the world was watching. And then after that he continued this buildup last night during the Oscars. That is strategy. What it means to me is, in just that regard, if Putin actually made strategic decisions based on the American people being distracted it tells me that Putin believes that American public opinion still matters, in terms of impacting American leadership.<\/p>\n

This is no small thing, folks. Now, Putin could be very wrong about the degree to which the American public impacts the Regime, for example, in its own strategy, but he nevertheless is cognizant of it, just like any politician would be. In fact, Putin — ready for this? — postponed the Oscar telecast last night.
\nHe didn\u2019t want his own population distracted. He wanted his own population knowing full well what he was doing, and he wanted them celebrating him. They weren\u2019t distracted. We were. And so now there\u2019s breaking news today: “Russia Has Reportedly Set a Surrender Deadline for Ukrainian Forces.” If they don\u2019t get out of the Crimea by tomorrow, Russia is gonna run in there and take it and kick their butts.<\/p>\n

Now, interestingly, do you remember — and I\u2019m sorry to be all over the ballpark here, but this a stream of consciousness thing, folks. Do you remember in one of our early skirmishes with Saddam Hussein — and, by the way, another little sidebar, George H. W. Bush always pronounced it “Saddam” because in that language “Saddam” means dirty shoe shiner. You know, those people have a thing about shoes. You throw shoes at somebody, it\u2019s a profound insult. It\u2019s actually pronounced “Saddam Hussein,” but he pronounced it “Saddam” because that means dirty, irrelevant, low, slime ball shoe shiner over there. Just a little sidebar. But remember, in one of our earliest skirmishes with Saddam, remember what governor Mario Cuomo suggested?<\/p>\n

Come on, Snerdley. You remember this. Cuomo said (paraphrasing), “Come on, let\u2019s just give him a few islands. Just give him a few islands, let him have what he wants, and we can avoid war.” Well, I have it right here in The Politico, ladies and gentlemen, the same thing. The Politico story is suggesting let Putin have Crimea. Well, yeah, among other things, but just let him have Crimea. Let him have it. Don\u2019t oppose him. Don\u2019t send Kerry over there.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter. Putin\u2019s gonna go in by tomorrow and take Crimea anyway. He needs a warm water port, but more importantly there\u2019s another aspect to this that I don\u2019t know that you may have considered, and that is with the uptick in fracking taking place in America, that means that there is vast new production of oil, oil and oil wells and fossil fuels. Now, what does that mean to Putin? Well, that\u2019s competition. Putin needs Ukraine because there\u2019s something like seven or eight Russian natural gas pipelines go through there on the way to selling the stuff to Western Europe. So in all of this there\u2019s so many elements here. There\u2019s economics, there\u2019s money, and there is always that. And then there is the KGB, which never went away, and it\u2019s now coming back to life in a reassembling of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

We also have the ChiComs and the Japanese on the verge of a massive military conflict as well. I mean, folks, things are blowing up like nutcases over there, and we just do not have the personnel in the State Department or at the Department of Defense or in the White House to adequately deal with this, because we don\u2019t have people that really think any of this matters. All that matters to people like Obama is fixing what he thinks is wrong with this country when it comes to social justice and racial discrimination and illegal immigration and amnesty and health care and all that, that\u2019s all that matters is fixing what\u2019s wrong with this country.<\/p>\n

Now, grab sound bite number seven. This is Lurch. He was on with Stephanopoulos yesterday. Stephanopoulos said to Senator Kerry — well, secretary of state. It\u2019s a laugher. Stephanopoulos said, “Look, we got these reports now, Russian forces surrounding Ukrainian military basis in the Crimea. Ukraine\u2019s prime minister says we\u2019re on the brink of a disaster. Is he right?”<\/p>\n


\nKERRY: What has already happened is a brazen act of aggression in violation of international law, in violation of the UN charter, in violation of the Helsinki Final Act, in violation of 1997 Ukraine-Russia basing agreement. Russia has engaged in a military act of aggression against another country, and it has huge risks, George. It\u2019s a Nineteenth Century act in the Twenty-First Century.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. And then when he went over to Face the Nation. (interruption) Which one did you watch, face the Nation or…? (interruption) Oh. Was he on there, too? (interruption) Well, when he went over to Face the Nation, he said, “You just don\u2019t, in the Twenty-First Century, behave in Nineteenth Century fashion by invading another country on a completely trumped-up pretext.”<\/p>\n

Hey, Lurch? Putin just did. He\u2019s there! So while Putin is invading, using Nineteenth Century tactics, John Kerry is on American television saying, “You don\u2019t do that,” and he\u2019s citing all of these agreements: The UN Charter, international law, the Helsinki Final Act. You know what all that stuff is worth to those people? You know what Putin thinks of that stuff? (tearing paper) He doesn\u2019t care. These are old Soviet communists.<\/p>\n

Putin has been salivating over reassembling the Soviet Union, and if it weren\u2019t so serious, it would be laughably pathetic. Because, as I remind you: In any conflict… I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s a bully on the schoolyard. I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s the National Football League, Major League Baseball, or anywhere. The aggressor sets the rules. Whatever the aggressor does are the rules, and you throw the rule book out.<\/p>\n

But we\u2019re sitting there saying, “We\u2019re offended! Why, he can\u2019t do this. Why, it\u2019s violating the Helsinki Final Act. Why, he\u2019s in violation of the 1997 Ukraine-Russia Basing Agreement!” Yeah? Big whoop. So he\u2019s out there condemning. Ah, that\u2019s really big. That\u2019s what we always do. We condemn and we deplore, and then we start shouting at the United Nations. “An incredible act of aggression!”<\/p>\n

Kerry brandished the threat of economic sanctions. “You just don\u2019t, in the Twenty-First Century, behave in Nineteenth Century fashion by invading another country on a completely trumped-up pretext.” Well, Mr. Secretary, Putin just did — reminiscent, by the way, of “Jen-jiss” Khan, with whom Kerry apparently is intimately familiar. “Jen-jiss” Khan. This is reminiscent of Germany, Neville Chamberlain, you name it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s reminiscent of the Soviet Union in the Twentieth Century, reminiscent of world history. You can look it up in the Undeniable Truths of Life, written by me in 1987. One of the 25 Undeniable Rules of Life is: “Ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.” It always has been, and it always will be. No matter how you analyze that. If you want to look at the current conflict between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, A, who\u2019s setting the rules?<\/p>\n

Democrats.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re the aggressors, right?<\/p>\n

Wouldn\u2019t you also say that politics here is the aggressive use of force? Democrats use force. It\u2019s nonmilitary in this case, but they use force. They are pushing and pushing, and what are we doing? Letting \u2019em have what they want (i.e., the Crimea) hoping they\u2019ll go away. So now in The Politico says (summarized), “Go ahead and let Putin have the Crimea! He\u2019ll be happy with that, and this will all be over.”<\/p>\n

So Obama yuks it up, whatever he\u2019s doing, drawing lines. Kerry\u2019s out there expressing shock and dismay that in the Twenty-First Century somebody would actually invade with ground forces. I mean, it\u2019s just pathetic, folks. It really is dangerous at the same time. Sound bite 18. Stephanopoulos. After Lurch talked about how he just doesn\u2019t dig this, this Nineteenth Century tactic in the Twenty-First Century…<\/p>\n

By the way, you notice also that Putin does this just days after we happily announce our intention to downsize our boots-on-the-ground military to pre-World War II levels. Why? ‘Cause this kind of stuff isn\u2019t gonna happen anymore. The Obama Regime is gonna propose in their budget coming up that we get the military back down — our boots on the ground, ground force commitment capability — to pre-World War II levels.<\/p>\n

Just days after we announce that, here goes Putin — and why are we doing it? Well, because this kind of stuff isn\u2019t gonna happen anymore! Not with lasers and outer space drones and the NSA and all of our abilities that we have to sneak and listen and spy on people. These conventional infantry wars, they\u2019re not gonna happen anymore. So we don\u2019t need to have that kind of military force.<\/p>\n

<\/a>“We need more food stamps, and we need more unemployment compensation extensions. We don\u2019t need that kind of army.” So shortly thereafter, there goes Vlad — and let\u2019s not forget Obama telling Dmitry Medvedev, “Just tell Putin to hang in there be and be tough when it comes to us getting rid of our nukes, because I\u2019ll have more flexibility after I win reelection. Yeah, we\u2019ll stop doing missile defense.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re gonna tear that down. We\u2019re gonna reduce our nuclear warhead stockpile just to show the world that we\u2019re good guys, nice people and so forth, and that we don\u2019t intend anybody any harm, admitting in the process that we have been the problem all along. The United States is the destabilizing agent.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what Obama believes. The US and its military has always been that.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what the left believes, what the Democrat Party today believes. The US is the destabilizing agent of the world, so we gotta show the world we no longer want to destabilize it. So, “Hey, Vlad? You want Crimea? Take it!” Stephanopoulos and Kerry continue to talk, and I just want to listen to this \u2019cause I want to hear what other inanities come out of Lurch\u2019s mouth.<\/p>\n

STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you have any indication at all that President Putin is taking heed of what President Obama\u2019s saying?<\/p>\n

KERRY: Well, they just had the conversation yesterday, and the president invited him to engage with the government. The most important thing to remember here is this is not — or should not be — East-West, Russia-United States, Russia versus Europe. This is about the people of Ukraine. We ought to be able to work this out through the diplomatic process. If Russia chooses not to, there will be serious repercussions.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, like what? Sanctions?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You want to know how tough we\u2019re getting on this? Breaking news here from Reuters. Ready for this? Dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut! Breaking news from the Obama Regime: “The White House says the United States will no longer…” We\u2019re not gonna do it. We\u2019re not gonna “send a presidential delegation to the upcoming Paralympic Games in Sochi to protest the Ukraine situation.” So the gloves are off, folks. No presidential delegation to the Paralympic Games in Sochi.<\/p>\n

Well, did you hear that the White House put out a photo of Obama talking on the phone with Vlad, and Obama\u2019s sleeves were rolled up? That was done to make it look like Obama was really working hard — I mean, really taking it seriously. His sleeves were rolled up while on the phone with Putin! Putin probably had his shirt off practicing Tai-Chi while he was talking to Obama.<\/p>\n