Travel Quotidiano

Why did President Obama decide last week, in the midst of the Ukraine crisis, to cut the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal four years earlier than required under the 2010 NEW Start Treaty? For Italy’s Libero Quotidiano, columnist Glauco Maggi writes that not only are most E.U. leaders on Putin’s side, but President Obama ‘is a left-wing ideologue, a slave to a pacifism divorced from reality, who knows only how to surrender to the bad faith of his opponents.’

For Libero Quotidiano, Glauco Maggi starts out his broadside against President Obama this way:

Obama turns the other cheek to Putin, announcing a voluntary reduction in U.S. nuclear missiles, which even the Russians didn’t expect. The “outlaw” Vladimir, who has already forcibly pried Crimea away from Ukraine without it costing him more than a few ridiculous travel restrictions on his officials, needs only to observe the prevarications of the American administration, shilly-shallying about what to do. Even mild-mannered John Kerry, a “veteran” of his own personal war when he was a young regretful soldier (in favor of Vietnam and against America), couldn’t help but notice that there are “Russian agitators in eastern Ukraine” who are infiltrators from Moscow, and that the 50, 000 Russian troops massed along the border aren’t on a sightseeing trip, but are preparing for something big.

Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the secretary of state accused Moscow of infiltrating Ukraine with agitators, which he called “an illegal and illegitimate effort to destabilize a sovereign state and create a contrived crisis with paid operatives across an international boundary.”