Friday, May 23, 2014

Poland's Walesa says the US no longer world leader

Poland's Walesa says the US no longer world leader

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's former president and Nobel Peace laureate, Lech Walesa, said Friday he plans to urge President Barack Obama to take a more active world leadership role when he visits Poland in June.
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Poland’s former president and Solidarity founder, Lech Walesa, takes a sip of tea before talking to The Associated Press in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday, May 23, 2014 on the sidelines of a conference of an organization of engineers and appraisers, SIDiR, that he addressed. Walesa told the AP that the United States under President Obama is not a world leader anymore, at a time when leadership is needed. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's former president and Nobel Peace laureate, Lech Walesa, said Friday he plans to urge President Barack Obama to take a more active world leadership role when he visits Poland in June.
Speaking to The Associated Press, Walesa said "the world is disorganized and the superpower is not taking the lead. I am displeased."
The former Solidarity leader said that when he meets Obama in Warsaw, he wants to tell him that the U.S. should inspire and encourage the world into positive action.
"The point is not in having the States fix problems for us or fight somewhere, no," Walesa said. "The States should organize us, encourage us and offer programs, while we, the world, should do the rest. This kind of leadership is needed."
"I will say: Either you want to be a superpower and guide us, or you should give the superpower to Poland and we will know what to do with it. Amen," said Walesa, who is known for sometimes abrasive comments.
Obama is traveling to Poland next month to mark 25 years since the country emerged from communism.
The two failed to meet on Obama's previous visit to Warsaw in 2011.
Walesa led Poland's peaceful transition to democracy in the 1980s. The June 4, 1989 elections gave Solidarity a share in the power and paved the way for the ouster of communists.

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Poland's Walesa says the US no longer world leader

Although I agree with him about the U.S. not acting like a world leader, I think there is a good reason for that. The primary reason is that we are coming now out of continuous wars since 2001. That is very expensive and basically really harmed the U.S. financially which helped cause the Great Recession. It isn't surprising that Obama would be leery of any confrontation given what we are just coming out of. However, outside of small forays into Georgia and Ukraine Russia is pretty rested from military action other than supplying weapons ongoing to Assad in Syria. Also, China is causing Vietnamese to kill and maim and injure Chinese people in Viet Nam. So, both Russia and China are causing trouble and unless the U.S. does a whole lot more real soon there will be a war as serious as World War II was whether there are nuclear weapons or not.

So, even though the U.S. is not acting like a world leader militarily right now this could change on a dime given the right configuration of events. Then the U.S. might go into a total World War II type of mode with rationing of Gas and everyone working on war weapons for about 10 years or more like during world war II. We just haven't had the right configuration of events for the U.S. to get really mad and get going yet. However, since Russia and China are both nuclear armed countries (like the U.S. and India and Pakistan and North Korea and France, and Germany and England and Israel) that isn't going to happen either unless we want to eliminate all life on earth. 

So, what will the future bring? It will be different than ever before on earth because of nuclear weapons. Either we all will be no more or we will all figure a way forward. The problem of course is whether people like Putin are actually sane or just addicted to playing "Chicken" with the world and with nuclear weapons. 

Nerves of steel might be necessary for the next 10 or 20 years just like they were necessary to survive 1945 until 1991 here on earth for anyone like me, my parents, grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, your parents or grandparents and maybe you.

 

 

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