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Obama living in a Putin World, Stunning defeat for Israel

srael is finding itself abandoned by the U.S. after President Obama, was yet again outmaneuvered by Vladimir Putin, and signed a terrible deal that saves Iran’s nuclear program. President Obama is coming up way short in dealing with Russia’s KGB President. Putin has brilliantly entrapped America in a lose-lose situation throughout the Middle East. From Syria to Libya to Iran to Iraq, the Russian President is outwitting Barack Obama which has a devastating effect for America’s closest ally, Israel.
We can see clearly how incompetent the Obama Administration is with this recent Iran nuke deal. On the one hand, the United States must use all its leverage to force the Iranians to back away from their quest to create nuclear weapons to protect its allies and to maintain Middle East stability. But, on the other hand, America has to woo Iran and keep the Iranians from growing too close to the Russians. This sort of balancing act – while difficult – can be done through the same sort of carrots and sticks that Ronald Reagan and America used with China in the 1980s. But Barack Obama is no Ronald Reagan. It’s because President Obama fundamentally lacks principles, real world experience and he is Muslim, that when faced with the possibility of Europe and Russia jointly endorsing an Iranian nuke program, Obama can only go with the flow.
President Obama’s disastrous Middle East foreign policy created this current Iran nightmare. If we go back it becomes even clearer with his reckless decision to withdraw from Iraq in 2009. The Iraq War was a bloody, very brutal conflict and expensive, but having American troops remain in Iraq (even nicely tucked away in their bases) gave us still priceless leverage over the Iranians to keep them from sliding too close to Russia and developing nukes. And our troops, while on the ground, helped to prevent Iran reaping tens of billions of dollars in black market activities (mostly oil) in the Iraqi Republic. Those billions were funneled into Iran’s Quds Guards, which are now a hugely formidable military force and helped Iran through the “sanctions”.
What President Obama seems ignorant of is the name of the game: Oil. When Vladimir Putin goes to sleep at night, he’s not counting sheep, solar or wind farms; he is counting how much influence Russia has to control the global price of oil. That’s why Putin sees Israel as an irrelevant annoyance on the world stage, and he looks at Saudi Arabia and dismisses them as a country fraught with its own significant internal problems that is quickly depleting its oil reserves. When he calculates the score at the end of each day, Putin sees how much oil influence he has today, and thinks how he can get more tomorrow. Putin knows if he can flip Iran into Russia’s pawn, it would be the crowning achievement to his reign as Russia’s latest Tsar.
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