"… the mandarins of Beijing aren't idiots, Putin isn't an idiot, Persia's bearded potentates are not idiots… they're looking at America, they see what's happening, they've taken the measure of Obama and the dysfunction he rules over and have concluded that if a guy as misguided and as poorly suited to governing a superpower as him can twice get elected head of the erstwhile most important country in the world and whose depressing reign, adding insult to injury, may be succeeded by someone equally as ill suited for those chief executive duties but who'll be handed the job regardless by an ignorant electorate and sycophantic media simply for having been born a woman who ironically enough rose to prominence by marrying well… I mean, as said, these people ain't idiots, they see this mess and no doubt rightly conclude the world order that has existed since the end of WWII is coming to an end and they plan on positioning themselves well to pick up the pieces… the seemingly unbounded naive idiocy of Obama and Kerry may have been surprised and dumbfounded by how Ukraine went down and the players on the board moved about, but the game was not lost on ol' Vlad, nor China, nor Iran, nor many of America's increasingly disquieted allies..."
