Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Charles Krauthammer: Obama’s foreign policy of denial
A soldier of the Ukrainian special troops of the national guard and the presidential regiment takes position outside the parliament during military exercises in the centre of Kiev early on May 1, 2014. Ukraine's armed forces are on "full combat alert" against a possible Russian invasion, Kiev said, as authorities admitted they were "helpless" to prevent pro-Kremlin insurgents tightening their grip on the increasingly chaotic east of the country. AFP PHOTO/ ANATOLIY STEPANOV
Barack Obama’s 949-word response Monday to a question about foreign policy weakness showed the president at his worst: defensive, irritable, contradictory and at times detached from reality. It began with a complaint about negative coverage on Fox News, when, in fact, it was the New York Times’ front page that featured Obama’s foreign policy failures, most recently the inability to conclude a trade agreement with Japan and the collapse of Secretary of State John Kerry’s Middle East negotiations.
