... was Donald Trump who reached an agreement with the Taliban on a full U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Both Obama and Trump also sought, albeit in strikingly different ways, to redirect Washington’s attention to shoring up the home ... ... ideological, and strategic focus of U.S. foreign policy has shifted. China is the main—some say, existential—challenger, and Russia the principal disrupter. Iran, North Korea, and an assortment of radical or extremist groups complete the list of adversaries....
... After some two weeks of these Russian war crimes, the U.S. formally broke off negotiations on October 3rd; the day after, the Guccifer 2.0 APT 28 front released fake documents it claimed proved corruption at the Clinton Foundation.
In the face of Russian mockery of Obama’s diplomatic efforts and his continued non-response to Russia’s cyberwarfare, some of Obama’s “top national security officials” grew furious with him and felt U.S. credibility was being severely damaged, especially ...
New threads in the Team Trump/Team Putin tangled web show Manafort and Page linked to each other as part of a Russian plot to control Ukraine and also show a mutual Russian mafia godfather linking them with each other and Trump, providing even deeper and more fertile ground on which to question Trump’s pro-Russia, Pro-Putin positions and their origins. ...
... and/or racially polarized.
In America, people, locations, and states that are very anti-federal government hardly look at what they deem interference from Washington—in particular from Democrats, and in particular from the African-American-led Obama Administration—differently from how Georgian chauvinists look(ed) at Russian/Soviet efforts to accommodate Abkhaz and other minorities in Georgia; likewise, minorities in America have long looked to the federal government to establish and protect their rights against a white majority that, to varying degrees depending ...
... possible total meltdown of the global financial and economic systems).
Now, America’s first non-white president, Barack Obama, has encountered a level of obstructionism and partisanship from Congress unseen since the Civil War; the elation and hope ... ... governments balk at attempts to coordinate regional refugee and economic policies. In France, a rising far-right party funded by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government may possibly come to control France in the coming years. Poland seems to be ...
In the wake of Turkey’s downing of a Russian military jet that violated its airspace and Russia’s resulting casualties, tensions are certainly on the rise. Despite the fact that these tensions should not be overblown, important questions about Putin’s aims need to be addressed....
... profitable markets of Asia27, where prices are higher than in Europe, that or Europe itself would have to be willing to pay for the worse deal.
For Whose Benefit?
To conclude, Europe is putting a great deal of effort in trying to sever ties with Russia, and by its own admission the Obama administration has spent an equal amount of effort to make sure that its European allies would act this way. On the other hand, it has yet to be proven who will benefit from this divorce, either Europe or the United States, but for now it is clear ...
... still be there, and it will be a matter of time until they are used again either by the government or rebels.
The issue of peaceful solution to the problem that was put on the table by Vladimir Putin is seen by many as his major victory over Barack Obama. Positioning himself as peace proponent and having strong influence over Bashar al-Assad, Russia's president certainly scores high in this stand-off, but what's also important, he saves Obama from imminent failure in Syria, from what chess players would call a zugzwang. Involvement in Syria would mean a huge blow to Obama's ...
