SPEAKING THE TRUTH – AT 8:49 A.M. ET:   The left, especially in Europe, loved Obama's "reset" with Russia, in part because the left never had much of a problem with the old Soviet Union.  But the reset button is in for servicing as it never seemed to work.  Now an American general speaks the blunt truth.  From, ironically, Britain's Independent, a lefty newspaper: 

The US commander in charge of most of America’s nuclear missiles has warned that too much power is concentrated in the hands of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and drawn parallels between Russia’s recent behaviour and that of Nazi Germany.

Lieutenant General Stephen Wilson, commander of US Global Air Strike Command, said: “I don’t think we’ve ever seen so much power put in one person in Russia, and some of the things happening there are troubling and concerning for everybody.”

He added: “[They’ve] annexed a country, changing international borders, raising rhetoric unlike we’ve heard since the cold war times, and so lots of people are trying to figure out what is the strategic intent of Russia.

“Some of the actions by Russia recently we haven’t seen since the 1930s, when whole countries were annexed and borders were changed by decree

Lt Gen Wilson, who is responsible for US intercontinental ballistic missile and nuclear-capable bomber forces, made the comments at a briefing in London attended by The Independent.

His outspoken remarks come amid rising tensions between the West and Russia. Yesterday, the EU extended economic sanctions against Moscow over its actions in Ukraine, and the US Defence Secretary, Ashton Carter, declared that America’s Nato allies must join it in standing up to Russian aggression.

COMMENT:  And what has Obama done about the rise in Russian aggressiveness?  Almost nothing, and that is unlikely to change.  Obama was brought up in a leftist family, openly admits his early attraction to Marxism, and hung out with an extreme crowd at the University of Chicago.  He has appeased Putin regularly.

And the person who carried out the "reset" with Russia was Hillary Clinton.

June 23, 2015