I can not respond to any of that w/o being political.
“The EU has joined in”, what a joke. They get 40% of their natural gas from Russia, do you really think that they are going to commit economic suicide? Closing that trade would also kill Russia’s economy, but Putin is betting they will back down - and they will.
How exactly did Kennedy and Reagan fail? There are no nukes in Cuba, and the USSR doesn’t exist.
So you support a leader of another country that makes reckless decisions and can operate in such a manner, than your own president - one that by nature of our nation and Constitution can’t do whatever he wants? Please tell me that you’re not one of the people that also complains he’s a dictator
How many times has Obamacare been amended w/o congress? The executive branch of government does not have the power to change/make laws. He may not be a dictator, but he has set the stage for a dictator.
Yes by Executive Order.
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Yes by Executive Order.
What he is doing is not what an executive order has the power to do. By your logic we should just name the president (whoever that is) king since he can do whatever he wants by executive order. Can a future president bypass congress with an executive order and outlaw abortion? How about busting the teacher’s union? Drop the legal drinking age?
He should have been impeached the second he said he refused to enforce the laws on the books because he disagreed with them. The fact of the matter is that he is the EXECUTIVE branch. If he wanted to legislate he should have stayed in the Senate.
The use of the word “wisely” at this point in time has yet to be determined. The annexation of Crimea can not be allowed. We have a obligation to the Ukraine and its territorial integrity. Our national honor is involved here. The Budapest memorandum surely implies that obligation. I am quite sure that the Ukrainians thought so when they gave up their nuclear weapons.The total withdrawal of Russian forces is the only acceptable outcome. Remember that Mr. Putin brought the rifle to the bargaining table.
 I am quite sure that the Ukrainians thought so when they gave up their nuclear weapons.
The Ukrainians were unwise to get out of the nuclear club, when your neighbor has WMDs its wise to keep yours, even if they are of a aging weapon system.
The U.S. has a obligation to fulfill. We have to stand by the Budapest Memorandum. Nations borders aren’t being redrawn by force period. World stability is in question if force of arms can redraw nations borders in the 21st century.
“The EU has joined in”, what a joke. They get 40% of their natural gas from Russia, do you really think that they are going to commit economic suicide? Closing that trade would also kill Russia’s economy, but Putin is betting they will back down - and they will.
Russia is highly dependent upon exports of oil/gas in their international trade. They don’t have what’s considered a contemporary “manufacturing” economy, so as long as the EU can hold out, it’ll hurt Russia more in the long run. There are more sources of natural gas, so it’s not as if they’d go without.
How exactly did Kennedy and Reagan fail? There are no nukes in Cuba, and the USSR doesn’t exist.
Kennedy failed the Bay of Pigs and the USSR was going to fall no matter what Reagan did. They weren’t so much as failures as they were irrelevant.
How many times has Obamacare been amended w/o congress? The executive branch of government does not have the power to change/make laws. He may not be a dictator, but he has set the stage for a dictator.
So is he a capable - albeit, a dictator - leader or completely ineffectual? He can’t be both.
What he is doing is not what an executive order has the power to do. By your logic we should just name the president (whoever that is) king since he can do whatever he wants by executive order. Can a future president bypass congress with an executive order and outlaw abortion? How about busting the teacher’s union? Drop the legal drinking age?
He should have been impeached the second he said he refused to enforce the laws on the books because he disagreed with them. The fact of the matter is that he is the EXECUTIVE branch. If he wanted to legislate he should have stayed in the Senate.
If Executive Order is going to be the core of your argument, then you will lose. Literally every president has used Executive Orders to direct the Executive branch from Washing to Obama….except Harrison who lasted only a month.
You’d probably also find Obama having a hard time trying to overturn a Supreme Court decision (such as Roe v. Wade) or trying to direct an organization not under the Executive branch to do something.
The U.S. has a obligation to fulfill. We have to stand by the Budapest Memorandum. Nations borders aren’t being redrawn by force period. World stability is in question if force of arms can redraw nations borders in the 21st century.
I agree. Kosovo and Crimea are a different story, but drawing new borders in the middle of Ukraine and bolding them with tanks is simply not ok.
USA has to help Ukraine with money, weapons and equipment. Ukraine does not have much weapons, but it has millions of people ready to defend their homeland.
Also it is important to say that all Ukrainian russian speaking population must be protected from discrimination.
