The Fantasy Infects the Media -- No Surprise There

Obama compliant Yahoo News is headlining that president Obama is "offering Putin a way out" of the Ukraine mess.  This is the same line that the White House itself is following in not for attribution remarks that are being widely disseminated.  Obama and his people apparently view the entire scene in Ukraine as if Putin and the Russians got involved by mistake and are just looking for an easy way out.  The delusion of our high officials is unbelievable.  Russia has been trying to take control of Ukraine for years.  Putin thought he had bought the leadership of Ukraine last November when the then president threw over the proposed treaty with the European Union in favor of a closer alliance with Russia.  When protest erupted, Putin sided with the government against the people in the streets.  Even when the former president of Ukraine ordered the military and the police to open fire on peaceful demonstrators killing almost 100 of them, Putin and the Russians still supported him.  Eventually Russia gave the former president asylum when he was forced to flee Ukraine after his attack on the protesters cost him his job.  The Russian troops sent into Ukraine was an effort by Putin to achieve with the army what he had failed to achieve through bribes and diplomacy.  None of this was an accident or a mistake by the Russians.  They are not looking for a way out; they are seeking control of their neighbor.

Right now, we have a president who is making moves based upon the world that exists only in his fantasy life.  Russia will not leave Ukraine because Putin wants to go.  Russia would only leave if Putin felt he was forced to go.  It does not help to have the idiots in the media repeating the fantasies.  Reality needs to appear soon or worse things are coming.