A Desperate Deal

Below are some excerpts from a New York Post article by Ralph Peters, a military and intelligence analyst who in 1998 retired from the U.S. Army as a lieutenant colonel:

“President Obama went to Moscow desperate for the appearance of a foreign-policy success. He got that illusion- at a substantial cost to America’s security. * * * We got nothing of real importance. But the government of puppet-master Vladimir Putin (nominally just Prime Minister) got virtually all it wanted. In Moscow, this was Christmas in July.

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“[Obama] agreed to trim our nuclear warhead arsenal by one-third and-even more dangerously-to cut the systems that deliver the nuclear payloads. In fact, the Russians don’t care much about our warhead numbers (which will be chopped to a figure “between 1,500 and 1,675). What they really wanted-and got- was a U.S. cave-in regarding limits on our nuclear-capable bombers, submarines and missiles that could leave us with as few as 500 systems, if the Russians continue to get their way as final details are negotiated.

“Our problem is that many nuclear-delivery systems -- such as bombers or subs -- are ‘dual-use’: A B-2 bomber can launch nukes, but it's employed more frequently to deliver conventional ordnance. Putin sought to cripple our ability to respond to international crises. Obama, meanwhile, was out for ‘deliverables’ -- deals that could be signed in front of the cameras. Each man got what he wanted.”

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“Our president also got some generalizations about North Korea and Iran, but no hard commitments. Russia-which designed many of Iran’s nuclear facilities- wouldn’t even promise to permanently deny Iran the sophisticated air-defense systems that would make it harder to hit Tehran’s nuke sites. * * * Great news for the Russian Federation. Bad news for America. Until an adoring media spins it of course.”

So not only did Putin play our feckless boy president for and as a Patsy (as indicated below in an earlier post), he also took his and our trousers . . . and our teleprompter-in-chief eagerly acquiesced in the process. It's no wonder they are laughing at us in the Kremlin -- it would be a source of hilarity here as well were it not placing us in danger.