Russia acting out of weakness

Today President Obama said that Russia is acting “not out of strength, but out of weakness”. Its interesting that he said that because, witnessing the way Russia has acted over the Crimea and Ukraine, and all the bravado it has displayed, it really does look like a pathetic display not of power but of weakness.

My guess is that the Crimea is not all that important. What does it have? There’s nothing really significant about it. Its just some land by a sea. Its not like some prime geopolitical real estate. But with all the bravado that Russia is showing one would think its some super important place. Its behavior is disproportionate and really does actually make Russia just look weak, like it needs to put on some kind of lame display. All these gross middle-aged beer-gut guys putting on their paramilitary outfits and acting tough. Its kind of sad actually.

I think countries which have their shit together have better things to do than play paratrooper. One the little, pathetic game is over Russia will still be a fucked up oligarchic dictatorship with a shitty economy.