The U.S. Can’t Bully the Bear

The U.S. can only bully the small fry nations like Afghanistan, Cuba, Chile, Columbia, Dominican Republic, Georgia, Grenada, Haiti, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Nicaragua, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Serbia, Somalia and Sudan. The tiny nation of North Vietnam stood up to the big bully U.S. and held its own, while North Korea and the primitive PRC fought the U.S. bully and its proxy UN armies to a standstill. Now the U.S. bully is trying to bully Iran over its alleged nuclear weapons program while the State of Israel possesses many sophisticated WMD’s, neutron bombs, BLU-109 bunker-buster bombs, BLU-113 bunker-buster bombs, thermonuclear weapons, atomic weapons and tactical nuclear weapons.
The bully U.S. and the EU have condemned Iran for developing WMD’s, while simultaneously protecting and enabling the principle culprit, Israel. What accounts for the U.S. bully’s double standard? Both Russia and China have geopolitical interests in the Persian Gulf and if Bush and the EU push hard, it might have damaging economic, strategic and military repercussions and consequences for the U.S. and the EU. Has the U.S. bully met its match in the reawakened Bear bully of the Russian Federation? The U.S. bully, the Bear Bully and the PRC bully all have vital national security interests and objectives in the Caspian Sea Basin, Black Sea and the Persian Gulf. Who can predict how a bully is going to behave when their national security and geopolitical interests are threatened by one another as they struggle to gain control or influence over oil, natural gas, coal, ports and waterways.
The Clinton and Bush foreign policy pushed the former Soviet puppet-states too quickly in the U.S. bully’s zeal to neutralize or contain Russia shortly after the dissolution of the USSR. The U.S. and the EU should have methodically planned better and slower for the reintegration of the former Soviet States in Eastern and Central Europe into NATO. Thus the reckless U.S. foreign policy relative to the former USSR satellites has forced the bully Bear into quadrupling its military defense budget in order to offset the geopolitical aspirations of the U.S. bully and the EU. The U. S. bully had a chance to woo the Bear bully into eventual membership in NATO but with the invasion of Iraq, continued sanctions against Iran and the pushing for the installation of the Patriot anti-missile shield in Poland, Ukraine and Georgia, has made Russia rethink and reexamine its long range national security and geopolitical interests. Putin is no fool and he is not ready to push it yet.
Russia has a “10 point military rebuilding plan” and if accomplished will give Russia a better force than they had back in 1989. This of course has threatened Europe to death. The bully Bear accomplished what they wanted. The Bear bully has scared to death all of their ex-states and have left Western Europe shaking. Like the typical school yard bully who is basically a coward, the bully never picks on anyone his/her own size because he is afraid of getting his backside kicked. Thus the U.S. bully has rendered itself helpless in the present crisis in Georgia.