Are Putin and China Blackmailing Obama Because of US Debt Needs?

A conservative European website asked a very troubling question last week - is Putin playing the debt card over Syria? Here's the quote used to support this opinion : "They are living beyond their means and shifting a part of the weight of their problems to the world economy. They are living like parasites off the global economy and their monopoly of the dollar. If [in America] there is a systemic malfunction, this will affect everyone. Countries like Russia and China hold a significant part of their reserves in American securities. There should be other reserve currencies." ___Vladimir Putin, 2011. ~~~~~ Dear readers, the answer may turn out to be that very possibly both Russia and China are playing the debt card. This makes a lot more sense since China holds approximately 1.275 trillion dollars of US debt, compared to Russia's approximately 138 billion dollars. So, if Russian president Putin is playing point man in this proposed scenario, it is surely China that is writing the script and calling the shots. We don't know what actually happened on Friday, 30 August 2013. What motivated the sudden bomb-drop of Obama's change of tactic, seemingly only hours away from a military strike on al-Assad? The US President's advisors and the military certainly appeared to be caught totally by surprise. Did Putin let it be known to Obama that China would not be happy continuing to buy the debt of an America on the ground in Syria? It is clear that a US attack would have escalated, leading to US troops on the ground. Sunni allies of America in the region, led by Saudi Arabia, would have supported a US ground war in Syria, not so much looking for a victory there, but more likely because their real goal is not al-Assad but his shiite bosses in Iran. Machiavelli said, "he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force." And Russia, China and Putin would have lost big-time if the US had been forced by the situation on the ground to occupy Syria -- (1). Iran would have been exposed to a US land invasion through northern Iraq, which is under US-friendly Kurdish control; (2). The Kurds also would have welcomed a US ground attack to help expand and create a Kurdistan state, not something Russia would appreciate in its southern border region; (3). A Kurd state would also put American military forces on the border of the former Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia, posing a threat to an already weakening Russian influence in the area; (4). The Russian naval base in Tartus, Syria, would have been lost, denying Russia its only remaining foreign naval base and weakening Russian and Chinese efforts to gain influence to counter the American control of Middle East oil and gas resources. That is the Russia-China-Putin worst-case scenario. But, why would Obama not want to win that power play? Because if China especially, and Russia, refuse to buy American debt, who will? And if America were caught in this choking off of Chinese, and Russian, credit, why wouldn't other countries turn on the US and the Dollar? The doomsday scenario would be upon America and the world. In Sun Tzu's ancient Chinese military treatise, The Art of War, he said : "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.....Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across." If China is trying to do just that - make America's supremacy collapse under overspending supported by Chinese credit that makes America, in effect, a Chinese client state - then every American should be foursquare behind US House Speaker John Boehner, the Republican Party and the tea partiers, who understand that Obama and the Democrat Party are selling America to China. Obama's contention that there is no problem because the annual deficit has been halved is a lie. His $700 billion annual deficit is obscene. And it automatically raises the national debt, which was $1 trillion in 2008 and is $1.67 trillion now,making it necessary to borrow even more operating funds from China. Barack Obama is either stupid or an evil agent sent by God to test America's will to survive. Do not believe him. Do not attack the tea party or the GOP. They are America's last hope. I am telling you the hard, cold truth. We either get our debt under control or we become a Chinese outpost directed by Vladimir Putin. That should not be such a difficult decision. Think long and hard about it and talk to all your friends. This time, it is for real.