George Bush not the only moron.

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Francois Hollande of France met President Putin of Russia to find a peaceful resolution to the fighting in Ukraine. The talks failed because Putin apparently made new demands. There is rising pressure on Obama to supply lethal weapons, such as anti-tank and anti mortar systems, to the Ukraine government while Merkel warned that there can be no military solution to the Ukraine problem. In which case why didn't she stop the western backed armed coup by ultra nationalist, Svoboda and neo-Nazi Right Sector thugs which forced the elected President Victor Yanukovych to flee to Russia? She should never have agreed to the sanctions imposed by the US and definitely not taken part in them. Russia naturally sees this as bullying by western powers and reacted with its own sanctions against the EU and the US. With the US economy growing strongly Obama probably thinks that he can ignore these tit for tat sanctions but the EU is the largest trading partner of the US and the Eurozone economy is in dire straits with the risk of deflation hanging over it. The present Ukraine government was elected only by the western half of the country and the Russian speaking east elected its own Prime Minister in Alexander Zekharchenko. The government has been bombing civilians in the east with aircraft and helicopter gunships, justifying its attacks by saying that there are 9,000 Russian troops in the east of the country. If you are elected by only half the country and you bomb your own citizens, whose only crime is that their mother tongue is Russian, then surely you can never hope to represent those people and they have every right to fight for independence. So what is Obama, the gasbag, going to do? He cannot use drones to blow up Putin or Zekharchenko, as he has been doing in Pakistan. Will he supply lethal weapons to the government and give Russia the excuse to send in more troops and its air force to protect the people in the east? And if Russia does that will he send in NATO and US forces for a full scale war with Russia? US Senator Rand Paul thinks that US intervention in Libya was an " utter disaster " and calls it " Hillary's war ". Being a Republican he has selective amnesia about Bush's war in Iraq and Cheney's dirty obscenity in Guantanamo. But this is not the only confrontation. Greece has just elected a left wing government which wants to renegotiate the terms of its loans with the EU, but mainly Germany. However, Angela Merkel's father was a Lutheran pastor and she is totally against any sinful spending by Greece. And we have not even mentioned David Cameron of Britain. Want a bunch of jokers, with nuclear weapons to play with. Not reassuring, is it?