False Missile Gap In 60's Real Ice Breaker Gap Today

While Obama is in Alaska raising alarms over climate change

Just next door Russia under Putin is seeking the Arctic to rearrange

The giant gas station economy is laying claim to hundreds of Arctic square miles

 With intentions toward us and our allies less benign and more hostile

We learned today that Russia has 40 ice breakers so necessary to the Arctic ice traverse

Building 10 more while caught asleep at the helm we have only 2 to disburse

If Obama really believed in climate change that would much of the Arctic ice thaw

What caused him to miss increased sea lanes in the Arctic knowing the Bear was flexing his claws?

When it comes to Russia’s moves for us to be in a position to predict

Obama’s advisers caught flat footed too often,  leaving us unable to Putin’s moves restrict

Putin is no fool and has watched this President make great speeches to evil try to contain

But when it comes to the use of effective force he promptly refrains

No weapons for the Ukraine, no weapons for the Kurds, gnat like strikes in Syria and Iraq

Reducing our military to levels not seen since the eve of WWII leaving  huge preparedness gaps

We should remain calm for our commander in chief announced he will speed up the construction of a new icebreaker two years

So if Putin sits on his claws till 2020 we have nothing to fear

Like the Iran deal Obama is playing the game of national security with loaded dice

In the world stage under Obama we are acting less like men and more and more like mice

© September 1, 2015, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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