On Wednesday, March 26, Barack Obama gave an impassioned speech at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, condemning Russia’s "assault" on Ukraine and extolling the virtues of the Atlantic Empire. Eleven years since his predecessor’s invasion of Iraq, fifteen years since the U.S-led NATO aggression in Serbia, Mr. Obama tried to lecture Moscow about "the belief among some that bigger nations can bully smaller ones to get their way" and the "recycled maxim that might, somehow, makes right."  His indignation would be a lot more righteous if the government that actually held such a belief, and recycled the said maxim, were not his own.