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On March 19, James Taylor of Forbes headed his column “Obama's Foreign Policy Obsession With Global Warming Emboldens Putin”

 

The article makes its point in the first two paragraphs, as follows: “If Vladimir Putin had any misgivings about the consequences of invading Ukraine and taking the Crimea, the Obama foreign policy team gave Putin every reason to launch his invasion by soft-peddling the Ukraine crisis and publicly attacking U.S. climate scientists instead.

 

“Nations signal their foreign policy priorities and resolve by choosing issues on which to focus and issues on which to tread lightly. As the Ukraine crisis escalated throughout the month of February and Russian military forces predictably prepared to invade the nation, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chose to launch a high-profile campaign of attacks against American climate scientists and essentially give the Kremlin a green light to invade Ukraine."

 

The preceding’s noteworthy because, as anyone with an iota of intelligence would expect, the administration's ignoring the Crimean invasion emboldens other hostile nations to pursue their militant goals without fear of real retaliation from the U.S.

 

In that regard, Eric Schmitt of the New York Times, no less,  via Drudge reports that: “Iran is building a nonworking mock-up of an American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that United States officials say may be intended to be blown up for propaganda value.”

 

Intelligence analysts first noticed the vessel in the Gachin shipyard on the Persian Gulf last summer. It has the same distinctive shape and style of the Navy’s Nimitz-class carriers, as well as the Nimitz’s number 68 neatly painted in white near the bow. Mock aircraft can be seen on the flight deck.

 

Mr. Schmitt notes that: “The Iranian mock-up, which American officials described as more like a barge than a warship, has no nuclear propulsion system and is only about two-thirds the length of a typical 1,100-foot-long Navy carrier. Intelligence officials do not believe that Iran is capable of building an actual aircraft carrier”

 

However, here’s the most important point, “Navy and other American intelligence analysts surmise that the vessel, which Fifth Fleet wags have nicknamed the Target Barge, is something that Iran could tow to sea, anchor and blow up — while filming the whole thing to make a propaganda point, if, say, the talks with the Western powers over Iran’s nuclear program go south.”

 

So, what this means, is that while all the “talks” continue nations like Russia, Iran and likely North Korea are proceeding on a military bent with little to no fear of any kind of meaningful retaliation from the U.S. The U.S., on the other hand, is working diligently to protect a climate that has no real problems to begin with, and hasn't for the past seventeen years.

 

Nonetheless, the good news is that if the hostile situations keep escalating and any or all of these enemies actually deploy nuclear weapons, those of us in the pristine air of the United States will be able to see the mushroom clouds perfectly clearly. 

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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