Blue Star Chronicles

Within hours of Barack Obama’s Presidential acceptance speech, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev threw down a gauntlet. Read about it and see a video below.

Dmitry Medvedev

It hasn’t taken long for the world powers to start positioning themselves to put the new U.S. President to the test. Approximately six hours after Barack Obama finished his acceptance speech given to the throngs gathered at Grant Park in Chicago, Russian President Dmitry Medvedeve made sure he was the first to challenge Obama.

It seems only fitting that it should come from the Russians. After all, the United States and Russia have been each other’s favorite enemies for many, many years now. We got a little distracted after the Berlin Wall came down and there was a truss in the Cold War. Then there’s been the whole Radical Jihadi threat that caught our attention.

While we’ve been keeping an eye on the Jihadis, Russia has been rebuilding her strength. She tested it out this summer by trying to overrun Georgia. That move would have given Russia control of the oil pipelines coming out of Iran and going into Western Europe. The European leaders certainly knew what was at stake, even though the public stayed blissfully ignorant of the danger we were all in. The bloodbath in Georgia continued until George W. Bush sent three U.S. Naval ships to the Caspian sea with ‘humanitarian aid’ for the people of Georgia. We all know that it doesn’t take American war ships to deliver humanitarian aid. It does take American war ships to send a message to Russia though.

Russia pulled back and has been gripping about it every since. Western Europe sighed a sigh of relief and the public never quite realized what happened. And only the leaders of Western Europe, Georgia, Poland and the Ukraine knew enough to thank George W. Bush for saving them.

The Russian President and his Prime Minister and former President, Vladimir Putin, had endorsed the election of Barack Obama. Now that he’s been elected they are laying down the law. In his State of the Nation address on Wednesday, Medvedev make it clear that Moscow would not alter its hard-line rhetoric towards Obama’s administration. He called the U.S. foreign policy selfish and ominously announced that Moscow will set up a new missile base on their border with Poland.

Medvedev has also pledged to electronically jam the U.S. missile shield. In addition, Moscow has tossed plans to stand down three missile regiments. He also says that he will deploy short range missiles in Russia’s Baltic Sea territory. This move … this chess game … puts Russian missiles between two NATO members, Poland and Lithuania.

Of course, they blame all these moves on the United States and claim they are only putting their missiles in strategically critical areas in case the U.S. continues to build a missile defense system in Poland. In case you aren’t aware, the missile defense system in Poland was put into place after Russia invaded Georgia and then threatened the Ukraine and Poland. Western European leaders are fully aware that would give Russia complete control of the oil and gas supplies into Western Europe. They asked for our help and we gave it. Now Russia is trying to make that into a public relations excuse for them to go on the offensive.

And finally, in a move that is worthy of the best of the KGB, Medvedev said that Obama could stop all of this very simply. All he has to do is bow down before them.

“I would like to stress we have no problems with the American people. We don’t have innate anti-Americanism and we hope that our partners, the new US administration, will make a choice in favour of fully-fledged relations with Russia,” Mr Medvedev said.

So now we get to see how Obama responds. Will he give Russia the upper hand or tell them Americans bow before no one and force them to back off of taking power over Western Europe.

I hope Obama has some courage.