<<< Can you believe that someone in our White House, actually went to a toy store, bought this plastic "reset button" and gave it to the Macho Men in Russian leadership?
Syria Crisis and Putin’s Return Chill U.S. Ties With Russia By PETER BAKER Published: June 13, 2012/ NYT
. . . . . . . Signs of that
divergence seem increasingly pronounced lately, despite private reassurances
from Mr. Putin that he wants to deepen ties. Michael A. McFaul, a former Russia
adviser to Mr. Obama, has been subjected to an unusual campaign of public
harassment since arriving in Moscow as ambassador. A Russian general threatened
pre-emptive strikes against American missile defense sites in Poland in the
event of a crisis. Mr. Putin has cracked down on demonstrations while blaming
Americans for them, and he skipped the Group of 8 summit meeting hosted by Mr.
Obama last month.
“The reset
failed to change the underlying suspicion and distrust of America shared by a
majority of Russians as well as
Putin himself,” said Masha Lipman, an analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center.
“America is seen as a threat, an agent seeking to undermine Russia, to weaken
it, to do harm to it. Russia always has to be on the alert, on the
defensive" . . . . . .NY Times
Notes: the headline is a little humorous. During
the entire time the other guy has been pretending to be Russia's president,
we all knew that Prime Minister Putin was the real and continuing
political power in Russia. The fantasy of his "return,"
implies that he actually went somewhere, when, in fact,
he has been "there" all along. Our resident Coward
In Chief, did nothing to deal with Putin's disgust for America.
That plastic toy "reset" button, other than being an
absolute embarrassment to our country as the Russian's laughed at us behind our
backs for its presentation, has proven to have been an utter waste of
time.
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