Flying long-range bombing missions out of Iran’s Hamadan Air Base, Russian President Vladimir Putin exposed President Barack Obama’s foreign policy failure. Tossing out 60 years of détente with Russia, Obama chose Saudi Arabia over piecing together a commons sense coalition with Russian and Iran. Joining the Saudi proxy war in 2011 against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Obama, together with his former Secretary of State, Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton, both pit U.S. foreign policy against Russia and Iran, nowhere more evident than in Syria. While Barack points fingers at al-Assad, he backs the Saudi proxy war that’s killed 290,000, driving 11 million refugees to neighboring counties and the European Union. Refusing to confront Saudi Arabia in Geneva, Obama instead rubber-stamps the Saudi-funded proxy war that drove the U.K June 23 out of the EU.
Obama’s so attached at the hip with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States, he’s severely compromised 60 years of diplomacy to make the world a safer place with Russia. Hillary’s new obsession with GOP nominee real estate tycoon Donald Trump’s attempt to bridge the gap with Russia makes you wonder whether or not the world would be pushed to the nuclear brink with Russia if Hillary becomes president. Hillary’s campaign operatives accuse Trump’s campaign Chairman Paul Manafort of secretly harboring relations with Russia because of his past consulting with Ukraine’s ousted President Viktor Yanukovich. Telegraphing she has no intent of improving relations with Russia or Iran, Hillary’s foreign policy lacks the linkage needed to steer the away from the nuclear brink. Russia’s new military alliance with Iran to defend al-Assad checkmates Obama’s failed Syria policy.
Once Russia started air strikes Sept. 30, 2015 against Saudi-U.S.-Turkey-backed rebel forces seeking to topple al-Assad, Obama should have pivoted to align himself with Russia and Iran. When you think Barack 100% backs the Saudi proxy war against al-Assad knowing it’s a losing proposition, it makes you wonder why. Certainly U.S.-Russian relations in the scheme of things are far more important than relations with Saudi Arabia. Saudi’s 54-year-old U.S.-educated Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir stated publicly that the Syrian war won’t end until al-Assad leaves Damascus. With Russia on al-Assad’s side, al-Jubeir and King Salman must face reality that al-Assad isn’t going anywhere. Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have squandered U.S. credibility trying to convince Putin to toss al-Assad under the bus. Flying bombing missions out of Iran tells the whole story.
Isolating the U.S. from Russia and Iran, Obama gambled away U.S. foreign policy backing the Saudis. Reports of Hillary and Bill taking millions from the Saudis explains why Hillary would give 100% backing to the Saudi proxy war against al-Assad. Why Barack decided to let U.S.-Russian relations deteriorate to Cold War lows is anyone’s guess. Leaving office in less than six months, it’s possible Barack depends heavily on Saudi Arabia and Gulf State to fund his ambitious $2 billion presidential library. Whatever the reason, it borders on treason to sell off U.S. foreign policy to the highest cash bidder. Backing the Saudi proxy war is sheer madness for U.S. foreign policy. Neither Obama nor Hillary has explained why the U.S. backs toppling al-Assad when it’s the same position taken by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] and al-Qaeda’s Jahhat al-Nusra Front.
Iran’s mullah government, led by 77-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khanemei, badly out-maneuvered Obama, striking a military alliance with Russia. Given Iran’s July 14, 2015 Nuke Deal with the P5+1, U.S., U.K., France, China, Russia and Germany, Iran’s in stronger position than ever to work on its covert A-bomb. If and when it’s discovered that Iran’s secret military nuclear program continues to work on a bomb, the U.S. has virtually no leverage without Russia and China. With Russia’s new alliance with Iran, the U.S.—and Israel—is checkmated trying to contain Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Hillary’s said nothing but disparaging things about Russia and Iran, echoing her strong ties to Obama’s failed foreign policy. Only by an urgent pivot in relations with Russia, can the U.S. hope to have any future leverage with Iran. Painting his foreign policy into a corner, Obama has far less global leverage today.
Obama can’t have it both ways: Taking the wrong side in the Syrian War and hoping to improve U.S.-Russian relations. While it’s probably too late for Obama, there’s no evidence that Hillary plans to do anything different in Syria. When you consider the fallout of the refugee crisis on the EU—and the U.S.—it’s inconceivable that the State Department continue a failed policy giving a blank check to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States. Saudi’s High Negotiation Commission, seeking only regime change in Damascus, has weakened U.S. national security, pitting the U.S. directly against Russia and Iran. Why Obama expected Russia to only go after ISIS or al-Nusra is anyone’s guess. Saudi-U.S.-Turkey-backed rebel groups have stolen, like ISIS, Syrian territory. No sovereign power, no matter who backs it, can tolerate terror groups seizing territory without a fight.
