A world on the brink?

Russian flagship carrier Admiral Kuznetsov

This headline for October 22, 2016 - 'A U.S. Navy warship on Friday passed through waters claimed by China near disputed islands in the South China Sea, the Defense Department said, drawing Chinese condemnation.' Well that sounds troubling...

Then this tidbit, 'A fleet of Russian warships and fighter jets, including the flagship aircraft carrier the Admiral Kuznetsov, has reached the North Sea and is headed for the English Channel, the UK's Ministry of Defense told CNN in a statement.'

Meanwhile VP Biden recently threatened a cyber attack on Russia - 'US-Russian relations are at dangerous low-point as US Vice President Joe Biden threatened Russia with a cyber-attack in a televised interview on Friday, while Russian television warned citizens to prepare bomb shelters and check their gas masks.' It was noted that there was also a massive and highly disruptive cyber attack which snarled Web traffic on the East Coast Friday, shutting down access to some of the Web's most popular sites and frustrating their users...

Let me state something for the record. Even though Obama gained office by essentially bullying his way in. Even though Obama has thoroughly slapped Congress around on issues like immigration and Healthcare... Putin is not a man to be bullied. While Obama has never even fired a Daisy BB gun in his life, Putin has been actively invading countries and is even now moving a large fleet of ships reportedly to lock down Syria amid threats by Obama to establish a no fly zone! How, one wonders, will this all play out.

Here at home, Obama has reduced the military to the status of a joke, while Putin has spent the past decade building his up. (In case no one noticed the aircraft carrier pictured above is not exactly a bucket of bolts)! Obama the dove has also drastically reduced our nuclear missile capability while Putin has been building them like there is no tomorrow... and, now that I think of it, maybe there won't be for some countries.