◼ Bret Baier opened a panel segment on his show Friday night with a flashback to President Barack Obama’s snide ridiculing, of Mitt Romney’s now seeming prescient concern about Russia’s “geo-political” threat, during the October 22, 2012 presidential debate. = Newsbusters
...Romney’s retort to Obama: “Russia, I indicated, is a geopolitical foe...and I said in the same paragraph I said and Iran is the greatest national security threat we face. Russia does continue to battle us in the U.N. time and time again. I have clear eyes on this. I’m not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia or Mr. Putin.”
◼ PUTIN PLAYS CHESS WHILE OBAMA PLAYS MARBLES - John Hayward/Human Events @Doc_o
...“Russia without the Ukraine is a country. Russia with the Ukraine is an empire.” The scary thing is that nobody in the Obama Administration seems familiar with that saying, or much of anything else about the region. The fallback position for nervous Obama apologists at this point is to snarl at critics, “Well, what do you think he should do, nuke Moscow?” The point is not that a better President would be on a war footing against the Russian empire, but that a better President might have kept this crisis from bubbling over the way it has, or at least avoided further damage to American diplomatic prestige by fumbling the response so badly.
◼ Obama Enters Putin’s World - Daniel Greenfield/Front Page
TODAY'S SRUDGE:
NATO: EUROPE'S PEACE AT RISK OVER UKRAINE...
◼ China joins Russia 'in agreement' - Sky News
Russia has said China is largely "in agreement" over Ukraine, after other world powers condemned Moscow for sending troops into the country.'Ukraine Fever' Sweeps Balkans...
Hundreds of Russian soldiers have surrounded a military base in Crimea, preventing Ukrainian soldiers from going in or out.
PUTIN TIGHTENS GRIP...
Sets stage for showdown...
Obama faces his own 'chicken Kiev' moment...
Plans economic warfare against Russia...
Medvedev Predicts 'New Revolution, New Bloodshed'...
MOSCOW BLOCKS 'PROPAGANDA' WEB PAGES IN RUSSIA...
◼ Ukraine navy chief switches allegiance - yahoo
Ukraine accused Russia on Monday of pouring more troops into Crimea as world leaders grappled with Europe's worst standoff since the Cold War and the Moscow market plunged on fears of an all-out conflict.West looks 'weak'...
Moscow catches world off guard...
Russia Cancels Oscar Coverage...
