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Gerry Maxey’s Copyrighted 19th Century Solution to the 21st Century Ukraine Crisis

During the Middle Ages, King Canute sauntered down to the seashore, sat on a throne, and commanded the waves to stop coming in.  The waves did not stop. According to President Obama and his harem of Sublime Porte courtiers, King Canute's big mistake was not a mistake in geopolitics or in the geostrategic or in violating the Laws of Nature itself, but in his timing. According to  President Obama and his Sublime Porte courtiers, King Canute’s only mistake in not stopping the waves was not living in the 21 st Century. President Obama, unlike failed King Canute, does live in the 21 st Century; in the Century of FACEBOOK, TWITTER, and  Beyonce, therefore fantasies can become policy. As a Leader without any concept of a Faulknerian Past, President Obama believes his Modernity can overcome geopolitical facts, geostrategic facts, the Laws of Nature, Jungian irredentism, the Blood Memory of Boris and Gleb, 1500 years of Russian history and 5,000 years of Human History. The WA