Barack Obama’s world is collapsing

Looking at Obama’s last days in office one could not help but remember the famous line written by William Shakespeare: “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”

It seems that only now the Obama administration has gotten hold of the fact that the Democrats have lost the election and they won’t be around in the next four years to boss people around. At the same time, the next administration is not simply planning to adjust the policies that were pursued by Barack Obama, it’s going to radically change them. Against this backdrop, the still sitting US President has changed the approach to his successor so radically that it looks like he’s in a static of panic.

The most striking example is the recent UN Security Council, where the United States, much to everyone’s surprise, did not veto a resolution that would condemn Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories. At this point, a former Congressman and radio talk show host Joe Walsh slammed Barack Obama not finding what he called a 'reasonable' explanation of the unexpected hard stance that Washington has taken on the usurper regime of Israel.

However, it didn’t take long for a total of 342 congressmen of the US House of Representatives to rebuke the United Nations for passing a resolution that condemned Israeli illegal settlement construction, a bipartisan slap that also targets the Obama administration. Some Republicans even threatened to introduce a bill that would force Washington to stop financing the UN.

Further, the position that the Obama administration has taken on the alleged Russia’s inference in the US presidential election was unbalanced. After all, even the sitting CIA director, John Brennan in his interview for PBS noted that there’s a real chance that a totally different state was trying to meddle in the 2016 presidential campaign. It’s curious that all US intelligence agencies have been searching for evidence that another country was able to rig the election in the US day in, day out. Nevertheless, all that they could provide was empty allegations with not a single piece of evidence being provided, which is getting a little old now. Even the fact that US intelligence agencies are spying on pretty much every single political leader in this world, going as far as tapping the cell phones of Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande, was of little help for those who are already blood-stained in such activities.

However, the Obama camp is far from being unanimous. Just the other day Defense Secretary Ash Carter told The Wall Street Journal that Russia has done nothing to help defeat ISIS terrorists in Syria. It seems that this “politician” never reads newspapers, while preferring to get all the news and instructions from Barack Obama directly. However, on the next day, US Secretary of State John Kerry stated the complete opposite, noting that Russia and Iran opposed ISIS in their effort to support Damascus and have even achieved significant progress in this domain.

This is not the first time that the US State Department and Pentagon provide completely different assessments of certain situations, thereby displaying the chaos that reigns in the Obama administration. It’s curious that it was Syria that became a sort of bone of contention for State Department and Pentagon, since those bodies were eager to demonstrate “their own success”, which resulted in Washington being left with no say whatsoever on the Syrian reconciliation negotiations that are taking place in Astana.

In a bid to somehow sweeten the bitter pill that Barack Obama is about to take, the US Department of Defense decided to pull a trick out of the old gamebook by awarding Obama with a medal “Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service”. Among the achievements of the sitting US president that were announced at the ceremony one could spot something so utterly delusional as the commitment to modernization of the armed forces and the fight against terrorism. However, none of those present dared to recall that during Obama’s two terms in office hundreds of thousands of tons of ordnance were dropped on the Middle East and Africa, killing thousands of civilians.

Last year alone, according to the latest report of the US Council on Foreign Relations, the United States dropped more than 26 thousand tons of bombs on such states as Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan.

No one dared to mention the failures of that plagued the most advanced US military projects, like the notoriously bad F-35 and new warships, which fail with a remarkable level of consistency. Finally, the Pentagon has found its hero to honor, its Nobel Peace Prize to glorify. We now wait for an international court, which will have to uncover the real “achievements” of this “hero”.

Therefore, Obama is more nervous these days than ever, while trying to cover up the traces of his disastrous reign. He hurries to the “pardon” the hostages of the Guantanamo prison before Donald Trump gets inaugurated, sending at least four prisoners to Saudi Arabia, as it’s been noted by the Fox News. It got to the point where experts of the Wikileaks portal publicly announce their fears that the White House is planning erase some of its electronic archives in a bid to evade prosecution.

Yes, Obama’s agony, just like the collapse of the “system” he created, is entering the terminal phase.

It is said, in a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot. It is rare to see a top U.S. official stumble over that pistol shot, that truth, as most of them always edit their souls, pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. Strange enough, some of them occasionally do – with some reservations though. Outgoing Secretary of State John Kerry has had the courage to admit that war-party Washington and company did everything they could over the past six years to instigate regime change in Damascus by arming and supplying terrorist groups – but to no avail.
In an interview with MSNBC, Kerry said, "The radical extremists were gaining huge ground against Assad, and Assad was in a very fragile position. And so together, Iran and Russia had to prop him up, and save him from the possibilities that the extremists might take over the country.” Kerry’s admission of failed policy in Syria is the first step in his education: The same people who paved hell in Syria with alleged "good intentions", called for murdering Iranians and Russians, and even proposed that US forces begin bombing Syrian government installations, are now admitting it was Iran and Russia that saved Syria from utter depravity and terror.

Here, what Kerry shamelessly ignores to mention, however, is that Iran and Russia are still in Syria at the request of its government and as per International Law. Unlike the US and company, they are not there to provide leverage for some illicit interests in an endless war. They have never collapsed into a defensive crouch either. They are working together to prevent the situation in the terror-ravaged country from further deterioration. It was Washington's dual-track, halfway approach that made the mayhem worse.

To substantiate, after helping to liberate the city of Aleppo from terrorists, Russia has begun drawing down its troops. It says it has no intention to fight an endless war. The same is true about Iran with is military advisor role. From day one, the country has been saying the only solution to the crisis is dialogue.

It is because of this realpolitik that peace talks are finally coming, with plans for negotiations in Astana, Kazakhstan some time later in January. The latest admission by the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, is yet another monumental failure to the destructive legacy of President Barack Obama’s Nobel Prize-winning, alleged 'global' leadership. By giving marching orders to his terror proxies to invade Syria he believed he could move mountains and lord over Damascus. Not this time. Instead, he got crushed in the rubble of a failed policy.

What you heard and read was from an article by Grete Mautner, an independent researcher and journalist in Germany, on the Obama's farewell with a failed policy. It was complemented with some more informative materials at the end.

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