In a blog I wrote towards the end of the first year of his
presidency (November, 2009), I asked the question, “Is Barak Obama destined to
be the Neville Chamberlain of the Twenty-first century?” It is now clear that the answer to
this question is, “Yes!” And
Ukraine is his Czechoslovakia.
On
present trends and despite the huffing and puffing about ‘consequences’ and
‘lines being crossed’, it looks as if the world will acquiesce in Russia’s
military occupation and annexation of Crimea. I say ‘the world’ because Russia
mustered precisely no votes in the Security Council debate
on this matter beyond its own veto.
