Rev. O'Lution to Jayfor Justice

Not many comments I have today, it's hard to take things in on medication, but something that was on my mind as I chewed through my mango and pancakes this morning was Obama's recent abandonment of missile defence in eastern Europe. Many in America have criticised the President for his so-called sucking-up to the Russian regime and so jeopardising US defence, however, this move, although aggregating the Polish and Czechs, clearly has much more logic than the US media machine will let on. 1) By gaining Russian support, rather than undermining it's sphere of influence around Eastern Europe by expanding defence on what was once considered Soviet soil, there is more chance for for imposing stricter sanctions on Iranian nuclear activity, measures that Russia has so far failed to reach agreement on with the west. 2) Another reason for gaining Russian support is to more closely monitor worrying movements closer to the US borders. The US has rightly or wrongly (most often wrongly) been afraid of the threat from Latin America and the US government has all too often intervened in Latin American affairs, whether supporting rebel groups to led a coup d'etat or sending in mercenaries to assassinate important political figures. The twenty first century appears to be a very different story for the US strangle-hold on Latin America, especially after the formation of greater coalition between Latin American countries (although the name of that particular coalition has disappeared from my mind just now) - without this greater solidarity between these countries, the US might have been able to bolster military presence in Columbia and wave off any concerns from Columbia's neighbouring countries by suggesting it was just a move to aid the mysterious fight against the drugs trade, but such acts are not as easy to implementt as they used to be because much of Latin America has gained the economic strength and solidarity to stand up to the stoned-cold paranoid US machine. And so it seems that America needs help from Russia, a nation that has been well respected in much of Latin America if only for its links with Communism, though, Russia has built up this sphere of influence and now controls major oil lines through Latin America. To cut to the chase, the American's are afraid of the increasing ties between Venezuela and Iran... Chavez has agreed to open more doors for increased oil output to Iran in exchange for knowledge of nuclear technology - is this another episode of US paranoia, perhaps not, as just last week Chavez visited Iran and agreed to stronger ties in trade and oil.

In the wake of Obama's victory and whilst the inevitable was looming for George Bush, the former President said of his Presidential victor: “‘this is a dangerous world…and this cat [Obama] isn't remotely qualified to handle it. This guy has no clue, I promise you.’” Obama has not yet acted on many of the massive expectations he has set himself, but over the coming months we'll soon know whether his new regime of stronger ties between the US and Russia will be better for the American people than years of cold war paranoia between the two states.