Obama criticized for behaving like a noob at the G20 summit

[Neural Network]

Middle East likely to pay price for Obama's antics at G20 summit


Domestic and foreign journalists work in the massive media center while the U.S. President Barack Obama addresses with the Chinese delegation during talks before the start of the G20 Summit in Hangzhou, China, on Sept. 2. Photo by Stephen Shaver/UPI

U.S. President Barack Obama's baiting of Russia and China at the Group of 20 summit in Hang­zhou, China, is bad news for the Middle East region and the world at large.

Obama was clearly eager to strut on the world stage while leaving real problems to his successor. He took empty, reckless public postures, picking fights with both Russia and China when the United States is seriously committed in the fight against the Islamic State and to preserving the unity of Iraq. It is also walking a tight­rope between its old Turkish and new Kurdish allies.

Obama in his seven-and-a-half years as president has never shown the slightest interest in history or military strategy — and it shows.

At the G20 he jumped deep into the pit of strategic overextension, committing the United States to ongoing dangerous confrontations with the other greatest global powers — Russia and China.

He told China he was deter­mined to keep U.S. air and mari­time forces in Beijing's face to enforce freedom of navigation on U.S. terms through the South China Sea. Yet this is only a peripheral interest for the United States, while Japan and South Korea are prosperous, stable and powerful enough to take care of themselves.

At the same time, Obama talked tough — or at least tried to — when he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. U.S. media, with clear administration encourage­ment, have been huffing and puff­ing about alleged Russian hacks intended to embarrass Obama's in­tended successor, Hillary Clinton, and influence the U.S. presidential election.

All the flood of email and con­fidential document releases have done is expose material embar­rassing to Clinton that the U.S. media did not dig out themselves.

Obama would have done better to rein in the dangerous brink­manship and adventurism he is permitting with U.S. forces and NATO allies in Ukraine. It was only after a democratically elected gov­ernment in Ukraine was toppled by a violent coup in February 2014 as Obama complacently watched that Moscow retaliated by selling more lethal missiles and nuclear technology to Iran.

Instead of focusing on the grow­ing regional threat of Iran, vastly increased by the catastrophic nu­clear agreement last year, Obama wants to look macho on the world stage. Playing such games, how­ever, is only going to distract him further from confronting Iran or taking any serious sustained at­titude towards regional extremism and solving the Syrian civil war.

Weak men bluster and bluff, then imagine they are strong. That is what Obama did at the Group of 20 meeting.

Obama apparently thinks he can coast home in the last months be­fore the presidential election and strut tough and tall on the world stage. He imagines he can get out of office with Clinton elected and be free forever of the consequenc­es of his actions.

But Obama is wrong.

Where he saw himself as a proud man standing tall on the world stage, others saw a blustering pho­ny, who boasts of a Nobel Peace Prize he never deserved, never earned.

Obama stood up — in his own imagination — to Russia and China. In reality, he just plunged ahead on a course toward U.S. eco­nomic collapse through an endless clash with China.

Even worse, he took another step on the road toward thermo­nuclear confrontation and world war with Russia.

Obama's conduct in Hangzhou will not be scrutinized or even criticized by the worshipful U.S. media but it plunges the United States and the American people far further down the road towards global war and existential crisis under his successor.

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[kpopluveer]

This was one of the most overly dramatic, presumptuous op-eds I've ever had the misfortune of reading.

 

Thanks for sharing that. Really. Consider getting some new reading sources, tbh.

[PepeMeme]

He told China he was deter­mined to keep U.S. air and mari­time forces in Beijing's face to enforce freedom of navigation on U.S. terms through the South China Sea. Yet this is only a peripheral interest for the United States, while Japan and South Korea are prosperous, stable and powerful enough to take care of themselves.

 

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This isn't a fluid paragraph.  Japan and South Korea are not the countries in disputes over the SCS.  It's a bait and switch paragraph that undermines it's actual point.  As Phillipines and Vietnam are not prosperous or powerful enough to defend anything at sea.

 

It's like saying "The issues in the American Southern border with Mexico are not a big deal because Canada is pretty wealthy."

 

I'm not even going to bother going through the rest of this article. It's very poorly articulated and amateur level propaganda.

 

Most of the rest of the article is also completely illogical or does similar tricks that only a person with extreme confirmation bias would buy.

 

I don't understand the point of this article except the person writing it is extremely terrible at persuasion and it's for confirmation bias of Chinese nationalists.  In that case why post it here? Off the top of my head I could write better pro china pieces than this.

[Tentacruel]

Ignoring the fact that the article ridiculously presumes to know what's going on in Obama's head, you merely need to click the source to find out the author is just you garden variety conservative. Y'know...the types who bash Obama like it's their sole reason for living.

 

BORING!

[Trixbox]

Who wrote this? The Onion? Lol.

[Queen's Mine]

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This isn't a fluid paragraph. Japan and South Korea are not the countries in disputes over the SCS. It's a bait and switch paragraph that undermines it's actual point. As Phillipines and Vietnam are not prosperous or powerful enough to defend anything at sea.

 

It's like saying "The issues in the American Southern border with Mexico are not a big deal because Canada is pretty wealthy."

 

I'm not even going to bother going through the rest of this article. It's very poorly articulated and amateur level propaganda.

 

Most of the rest of the article is also completely illogical or does similar tricks that only a person with extreme confirmation bias would buy.

 

I don't understand the point of this article except the person writing it is extremely terrible at persuasion and it's for confirmation bias of Chinese nationalists. In that case why post it here? Off the top of my head I could write better pro china pieces than this.

japan intervene in SCS tho

[Eye]

make america great again, vote for trump!

[SheeraEtheral]

make america great again, vote for trump!

Oh hell no not a Irene stan supporting Trump..bye