Very simple a diminished United States

A strategy is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal. For a Nation Geo-strategy is a foreign policy guided principally by geographical factors pertaining to political and military planning. The Obama Geo-strategy was to remove the United States from its world leadership role and make it one of many equal nations in the world; and by so doing the military could be reduced in size and those resources put to better use. This thought comes from the progressive view that the United states medals in the affairs of other countries and by so doing causes conflict that would not exist if our military was no bigger than anyone else.

Obama came to office with the naive belief that the rest of the world would change by his very presence, after all he got the Noble Peace Prize just for getting elected President. So what has Obama done to create this new world free of American Imperialism that was the core problem?

First he embarked on a world apology tour to tell everyone that this was a new America; then he cancels the anti missile agreement with Poland, then he cancels the US manned space program, he does not negotiate a status of forces agreement in Iraq; he does nothing with the green movement in Iran; he begins to cancel DOD advanced weapons programs soon after assuming office; he encourages the Arab spring; he ignores Iran’s nuclear program for all practical purposes; he gives the impression that he does not like Israel; he proposes major reductions in US nuclear weapons; he announces that all American troops will be out of Afghanistan in 2014; he does nothing In Syria or prior to that in Georgia; he was AWOL after the Benghazi terrorist attack, he has his EPA continue to make regulation that start to close down major sections of the U.S. economy; then he announces that the U.S. military will be significantly reduced and more military programs are to be eliminated.

Foreign leaders with real world experience see a U.S. president with no experience at anything but talking dismantling the US military as fast as he can. Further, Obama is promoting internal policies that will critically weakling the domestic economy by continuing policies that drive jobs out of the country and bring people into the country that have no skills or education creating a new dependent class that will require more resources be assigned to try and find some way to make these people productive members of society.

They see an opportunity to exert their influence to replace that of a declining United States. They will obviously take advantage of this as real leaders always do.  So it’s no surprise that Putin is doing what he is doing which is to attempt to reestablish the old U.S.S.R. as there will be no military action against him; since the EC has no military and is dependent on Russian e.g. Putin, for their natural gas so there really is nothing that they can do other than complain.

The Arab spring is another place where this policy has created a building nightmare. As all the old Dictators were removed from office internal factions that had been brutally repressed came out and Egypt, Libya, Syria and now Iraq with the ISIS are the result. Once set in motion by the withdrawal of American influence the genie is out of the bottle and there is no way to put it in back in. There are no actions that this President can take to resolve this and, in fact, it’s best if he doesn’t do anything as whatever he would come up with would not work and only make things worse. Neither Obama nor his wife nor Valery Jarrrett has demonstrated that they they have the intelligence or skills to deal with the situation in the Middle East.

To ask or expect that Obama could actually do something other than make things worse is being very naive after seeing what he has done over the past almost six years.