Don’t Listen to Obama’s Ukraine Critics: He’s Not ‘Losing’ - and It’s Not His Fight
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In the days since Vladimir Putin sent Russian troops into the Crimea, it has been amateur hour back in Washington.
I don’t mean Barack Obama. He’s doing pretty much everything he can, with what are a very limited set of policy options at his disposal. No, I’m talking about the people who won’t stop weighing in on Obama’s lack of “action” in the Ukraine. Indeed, the sea of foreign policy punditry - already shark-infested - has reached new lows in fear-mongering, exaggerated doom-saying and a stunning inability to place global events in any rational historical context.