Land of the Fake Red Lines, and the Home of the Empty Threats

It seems that the President of the United States has had an issue keeping his word on, well, pretty much every damn thing he says.  From his signature Healthcare law to military action. 

We have all heard the famous line with his healthcare law “If you like your plan, you can keep it,” he said the same thing about our doctors too.  Here is a video with President Obama stating so, Keep Your Plan.  Years later in 2014 he admits in an interview with WebMD that some people will have to change plans and/or doctors in a manner to save money.  Here is a video with President Obama admitting people will have to change doctors, Change Doctors. 

This is just showing the beginning of his lie spectrum.  Now I am going to get into what is really hurting our Country’s reputation.

When Syrian President Bashar Assad spoke of the use of chemical weapons on his own people, President Obama stated that if he did so, it would cross a “red line for us” and might trigger a U.S. military response. You can review a timeline of the Syrian controversy here Red Line Timeline.  As we have all seen, nothing was done militarily by the United States even after Assad had used chemical weapons on his citizens, including women and children.

President Obama has said so many things that he has not come thru on, issues that involved both foreign and domestic people.  The President not following through on the Syrian President as he said he would even after a verified chemical attack, show great weakness in his leadership and on the United States as a country.  The world laughs at the U.S. now, we do not have any respect left for us.

President Putin of Russia has realized how meaningless that President Obama’s red lines, warnings, and threats of military action are.  Whenever Putin invaded Crimea, it was a test to see if anyone in the world would do anything about it.  Other than a few sanctions and frozen assets, nothing has been done.  Putin is not worried about either of these and Russia is self-efficient enough to support itself for a good while.

There are currently tens of thousands of Russian troops bordering eastern Ukraine, and I am betting that Putin will move into eastern Ukraine and take it over as he did Crimea. Putin has an end game in his mind and is definitely not worried about any type of military intervention from the U.S.  It looks like to me that Putin is going after his Soviet Union and rebuilding the Russian empire.

The United States is a world power and a world leader; at least we used to be.  We grew an empire in the late 19^th to early 20^th century, and with that empire came an understood respect.  Most people and countries did not like and respect us because we were nice.  Respect comes from fear and understanding boundaries.  Several countries found that out the hard way. Today, countries are calling our leaders’ bluff and wiping out what respect we have left.  If this keeps happening, it won’t take long for a country to try our limits and move in on us.  According to history, a World War is about due.

The moral of this blog is that our country is not being lead by a strong leader.  We are becoming the person that no one believes anything that they say because they never do as they say that they would.  We have fought hard for what we have, and loved ones have did while doing so.  It has also taken hundreds of years to get to where we are.  When people see that red, white, and blue flying high in the sky, they should get a feeling of a strong, bold, and uniform country that will do whatever necessary to protect its land and citizens.