Using the turmoil in the Ukraine as an example, Richard Fernandez over at the Belmont Club details what he calls the comprehensive failure of the Obama Administration's foreign policy, as well as the press's herculean attempts to hide it from the American people.

   "All on the back pages, yet taken together one can adventure the thought that a comprehensive failure has overtaken the foreign policy of Barack Obama. The irony is that Obama campaigned on the platform of “smart diplomacy.” But as things have turned out, he was smart only in his own mind.

Under his watch the 70-year-old Pax Americana has fallen apart. Al-Qaeda has flourished. President Benigno Aquino of the Philippines caught the tone of rising concern when he warned, in an interview with the New York Times, that China was doing to Southeast Asia what Nazi Germany did to Central Europe in the late 1930s. “At what point do you say, ‘Enough is enough’? Well, the world has to say it — remember that the Sudetenland was given in an attempt to appease Hitler to prevent World War II.”

But you wouldn’t know it for the panegyrics still being sung by the mainstream media.  To read some papers you would think the world’s biggest problem was gay rights at the Sochi Olympics.

The Sudetenland? Things are not as bad as that yet. But the operative word is “yet.” Someone — perhaps the elders of the Democratic Party — have got to put some competence back in the White House. Someone needs to stop the rot. An administration too inept to roll out a website; too obtuse to do much more than watch a US consulate burned by — dare we say it? — video protesters — such an administration may be overmatched in a contest of brinksmanship with a rival nuclear power.

Barack Obama is in trouble and so are we all. It’s time to stop the Happy Talk and for Republicans and Democrats to face the facts. The emperor has no clothes."

One wonders if the Russians are merely waiting for the end of the Olympics to unleash yet more mischief.  Certainly, if they wanted to invade the Ukraine to reassert their traditional dominance there, there is very little that the US could or, more importantly with this president, would do to stop it.  However, there are multiple international hotspots where our wholly incompetent government could be shown to be embarrassingly impotent by an aggressive Russia.  You only need to think of how easily they outmaneuvered a confused and ignorant Obama in Syria to see what could well be in store for both America and it's allies in what will truly be a post pax Americana world.