Politico: President Obama, Eric Cantor talk immigration – sort of
Miami Herald: Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Bill Nelson try to keep U.S. attention on Venezuelan political unrest
Daily Caller: Neil Munro: Obama faces cold audience in Pennsylvania
To think that at least some of this mess in American foreign and domestic policy originated more than a few decades ago. Speaking of immigration, illegal or legal, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s mood couldn’t have been helped much according to the current mood, so to speak, and this assumes that immigrants from other traditional societies remain fairly silent over the next few months. I suppose any remaining activists could safely watch these remnants stall and sputter, reflective of the entanglements from the maelstrom unleashed by President Barack Obama and his advisors. For whatever it’s worth, I might think that any population slowdowns would ultimately make such an initiative meaningless, but refugee flows could turn immigration into an issue of short bursts rather than constant arrivals. I’ll leave it to Senators Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson to explore another recent facet of this burgeoning fiasco, backed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The tidbits of imagery that I’ve caught might have been enough in my case, and the references to visa withdrawals and similar sanctions echo the turmoil over Russia, maybe not coincidentally. Rubio and Nelson favor granting asylum-seekers specialized designations for immigration officials’ purposes, which one might not mind too much. I’m quite certain that various labor unions will need their own contingency plans as refugees flow worldwide from whatever regions they’ve been attempting to escape, swamping the Democrats’ immigration agenda altogether, offering a crack in their coalition. As for the President himself, well, the above anecdote might be one among others in any efforts to estimate the general mood after the past five years, apparently. Obama referred to a “road trip” of sorts across Pennsylvania, but the sequencing might’ve left something to be desired. The rest of Pennsylvania might not have much left as the various possibilities involving, say, shale oil and gas widen throughout North America and this world, as I now recall, whether economic… or geopolitical.:
Jamestown Foundation: Cavid Veliyev: Azerbaijan’s Approach to the Crimean Crisis
Jamestown Foundation: Pavel Felgenhauer: Putin Hovering on the Brink of a Massive Invasion of Ukraine
Time: Simon Shuster: Ukraine’s ‘Jew Register’ Either a Hoax or a Crude Extortion Scheme
Fox News Channel: Raising Specter of Genocide, US Ambassador Power Slams ‘Industrial-Style Slaughter’ in Syria
If I thought and opined the same way that Russian President Vladimir Putin did, then I’d be following a similar track of choices to his, which could say a few things about his mission as he sees it. As nervousness grows along Russia’s borders, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev voiced solidarity with Kiev, a stance echoed at the United Nations, which cited the importance of territorial integrity and global recognition of borders, a stance that Azerbaijan employed in refusing to recognize Kosovo’s independence, back during Bill Clinton’s days in the Oval Office, if I’m not mistaken. Its proximity to Iran and Turkey can’t help tensions there, and as the Eurasianists’ territorial threat twists and turns around the area, those networks already in place look to be accelerating beyond even their control. For Putin’s part, he referred to the area extending from eastern Ukraine to the border with Moldova as “New Russia”, and he and his advisors are echoing calls for the ability to essentially veto Kiev and official recognition of the annexation of Crimea. Call it a project for ethnic exclusivity in Russia’s favor, even if it turns out that certain groups sort to extort or even scare those Jewish communities as much as they could. All this hasn’t even mentioned the national battlefield once known as Syria yet, but perhaps we’ll be able to add Russia itself soon enough, depending on the mobilizations from its most classical historical enemies. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power was following officials who presented photographs depicting “corpses with bones protruding and eyes gouged out”. Between the machinations from the Putinists and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards and the calls from Al-Qaeda and other similar groups, the region could fall beyond recovery, if it hasn’t already. Jen Psaki of the State Department didn’t directly confirm reports of anti-tank missiles for the jihad groups there, but the geopolitical grudge match now taking shape continues. I was among those political junkies who believed that Russia would bide its time during the societal self-destructions worldwide, but perhaps Viktor Yanukovych’s downfall forced its hand. The Sharia supremacists and the Chinese Communists alike could probably salivate at whatever chances they see to dismember Russia in the process. The candidates for 2014 and 2016 will be certain to have a plethora of crises facing them and the rest of the Anglosphere, no matter who ends up winning on either side.
