First Test

My liberal friends who read what I have to say called it "trash" and a fucked-up situation left by my beloved W. {Their words, not mine}

So glad they have stopped inhaling.

Promises. Anyone can promise.

Now, stand and deliver.

I am beginning to think that Joe Biden's vaunted "1st Test" of Obama may have already begun. In world politics, hardly anything ever happens overnight, but rather, tensions build and things escalate until finally, the powder keg bursts.... Russia might be the place. Somewhat a proud government, did not take the Yeltsin years at all kindly and still feel that they are a world superpower. That they cannot afford to be one is immaterial to the process. We've already seem manifestations: Georgia miscalculated over South Ossetia. Russia stepped in and bloodied their noses [mainly because America had been training and supplying the Georgians]. Ukraine stepped up and refused to allow Russian ships to return to port in the Crimea [the ports are actually in the Ukraine, but the Russians have been occupying them asa carryover from when it was all Russia]. The Ukrainians want surplus Perry-class frigates from us, which will really make the Russians spin..... this is all background, unfortunately.

Up in the Baltic states, we have supplied Poland with an anti-missile system. We say it is to protect against Iranian missiles, and it will certainly do just that. Unfortunately, it will also protect against Russian missiles, and Russia:

[1] Feels that having missiles with which to threaten Eastern Europe is their right{perhaps mainly because

[2] Is extremely paranoid. Kinda hard NOT to be, when one had been invaded so often.Huns, Mongols, Vikings, Charles XII, Napoleon, Kaiser Bill, Hitler..... that's just a small summary. So, the Russians have deployed missiles as a show of force. Because they can. Voila! Instant crisis. Now, remember what I mentioned at the beginning of this message? Things never unfold quickly. We've got a missile shield in Eastern Europe and missiles directly opposite. And, a new president, whose VP has already stated that O will be tested by world crisis within the first six months. The crisis is teed-up and ready to be smacked down the fairway!!

Possibilities:

[1] "Peace in Our Time" (Part Deux) loses Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Georgia back into the Commonwealth of "Independent" States. Maybe Poland, The Ukraine, et cetera as well.

[2] Another war beginning in Eastern Europe. Gee, what a great idea - wonder why no one thought of THAT before? [1914, 1939....]

[3] The campaign promises were not rhetoric and O rises to the occasion.

I am skeptical. I do not care for Barack Obama. I have detested Joe Biden for quite some time. I do not believe that a coalition of elitist social Marxists and those who wish to prosper from the labor of others makes for good government. Nonetheless, in two months that will be the government we will have to rely upon.

Expect the worst.

Hope for the best.

Prayer is good also.

God Bless America