Nobel for Peace, Nobel for Freedom

If a normal U.S. president were in office in Washington — I am not saying Abraham Lincoln, I am saying normal — we would have never gotten to this point. And we would not have an arrogant lad doing as he pleases on the international chessboard, playing with Crimea as if it were an afternoon session of Risk at his aunt’s house. Instead, we see everything and remain silent because the international community, the intellectuals, the right and the left have spent the last six years of their not-so-significant existence applauding the messiah from Chicago.

And since they have not been applauding by accident, they should also be happy with the results he is attaining. Because George W. Bush was bad and he chose to liberate Iraq and Afghanistan from tyranny with but a few good allies, he greatly irritated Comrade Putin with his ways. Let us imagine those who wanted to come after him not repudiating him on this topic. How much did the left wing laugh upon hearing Sarah Palin affirm that Putin represented a future danger, even for Ukraine? It would be wise to remember Putin’s bullying in Georgia during that time. And how presumptuous was Barack Obama in brushing aside Mitt Romney’s worries about Russia’s role? And do we want to keep quiet about how everyone — I mean everyone — nicely brushed over Obama’s off-air promise of maximum flexibility to Medvedev following his re-election?

It’s useless to say anything, for the love of country, about those elements of the supposed Italian right, which brazenly sided with Obama and are taken with Vladimir Putin to the point of having forgotten the fact that we are talking about a gentleman who maintains a Soviet model of sociopolitical development and led the Soviet secret service, not exactly your local bowling alley. Nowadays, as the winds of war are still whirling, we need a leader capable of fighting this war, avoiding it with, if anything, the strength of determination and not submissiveness.

There is a Nobel Peace Prize at the White House, and there are plenty of people who will bend over backwards to emphasize this. When you had a “Nobel Prize for Freedom” there, you went out to protest almost every first Friday of the month. Now you are instead sitting comfortably at home, looking for a good reason to call “peace” the desert of rights that will arise thanks to your indifference.