Ukraine, We Kraine, EVERYBODY KRAINE or Squirrels and Nuts Day 3 of ????

You betcha!

A comment about the Blind leading the Blind comes to mind.

There is an old Saw about stopped clocks being right twice a day that I am pretty sure everyone has heard some version of in their lives. Other versions include Blind Squirrels finding nuts, Blind hogs finding truffles and more variations than I care to go into at this point in time. Needless to say (Even though I am about to say it, go figure.), the adages indicate that even the slowest, mentally and socially incompetent person can occasionally be right usual by blind chance.

Which naturally brings us to Sarah Palin. Now, IMNSHO (In My Not So Humble Opinion for those who are coming in late to my blogs and aren't up on the lingo.) Mrs. Palin is a Blooming Moron with delusions of adequacy. She received her fifteen minutes of fame when Sen. McCain blindly chose her to be his running mate. (No seriously folks, he had never met her before and chose her based off the data his people gathered about her. I am not saying that the rumors of him choosing her simply because she had lady parts is true, but he knew nothing about her before choosing her.) Since they Lost to Obama, she has been doing everything in her power to keep milking that brief moment of fame and power with mixed success. Her reality TV series (anyone actually remember it?) flopped and her book sales never really took off, but she did manage to snag a seat on Faux News so 1 out of 3 isn't bad, right? You betcha!

Now as you may have surmised, I am not particularly fond of Mrs. Palin. I think her narrow minded/single minded attitudes about...well pretty much everything are symbolic of pretty much everything that is wrong with America/American Politics today. But in this article, we have come, not to bury her, but in our own humble sideways way to praise her. Buckle up folks, this is not going to be pretty.

So in 2008ish, Mrs. Palin went on the record as saying that if Obama became President then Putin and Russia would seize upon him being a weak, namby pamby leader and invade the Ukraine. The assumption (and you know what they say about assuming anything right?) was that Obama's presidency would so weaken the good old US of A that the evil Russian Empire would feel free to pillage and burn without fear of retribution. Yessir, you betcha!

Now fast forward four or so years and one election later. The Ukraine is in turmoil! Pro-West forces have taken over the country and Pro-Russia groups are complaining about it. The Pro-Russia groups have petitioned to Russia (This includes the elected President of the country just as a reminder) for help and protection just in case things go South. There is even talk of the Pro-Russia sections breaking off from the other part of the country to form their own nation. (As a maybe interesting historical note here, the Pro-Russia section that is making noises? Crimea is an autonomous parliamentary republic within Ukraine. In other words, Crimea is essentially already its own little country that just happens to currently be attached to the rest of the Ukraine and that Russian Speaking section has Always been Pro-Russian. Okay historical aside over, on with the drivel!)

 

So on the very shallow (It is Palin we are talking about here) surface, Sarah Palin does indeed have the right to crow about how she was right 4 years ago when she said Russia would invade the Ukraine. Course dig even a little bit below that shallow field and her statement becomes nothing more than a happy coinkydink.

See, Russia's military actions in the Ukraine have absolutely nothing to do with Barack Obama being a weak spineless leader or even anything to do with the USA at all. Well unless you buy into the conspiracy theorists who claim that the CIA caused the unrest in the Ukraine in a blatant attempt to gain military bases in that area. Which sadly is one of the more believable conspiracies I have heard lately.

Russia had moved into the Ukraine for two simple reasons. One is kind of noble and the other is a tad greedy, but both have nothing to do with O being president. The Pro-Russian forces have actually asked that their friends in Moscow step in to help protect them from any future violence AND well, Russia is having night terrors about losing another section of its allies to Western Forces. In this situation and the disasters that led up to it, Any US president would have had very little if any influence on it all. Without sparking another World War, there isn't much that could be done besides saying a few stern words and wagging our fingers.

So yes, Palin was technically right and I will give her chops for that. Obama became President and Russia invaded the Ukraine. Accept your kudos from all the folks who are a tad too shallow to look past that. BLIND SQUIRRELS RULE!