... credibility as diplomatic tool
According to the Guardian, U.S. president Barack Obama “lambasted” Putin. But it was make-believe.... ... world that he could bully Putin.
“You're wrecking Russia to recreate the Soviet empire,” Obama said with Putin ... ... historically, an important propaganda asset of the government of the United States dating back to World War II..
The study reveals ... ... believe CBS, the leaked study claims that all decisions made by Vladimir Putin reflect the need for “extreme control” ...
... China’s substantial oil investments in South Sudan, where there is ISIS-linked activity.
Add to that the 3 million people the United States, NGOs and the UN say are refugees due to the Middle East-ISIS situation.
When money is being spent on weapons ... ... to the American Enterprise Institute and said he hoped that the U.S. leader would call for more defense spending. In Moscow, Russian president Vladimir Putin has been saying that for a long time. Asking the American people to spend more to roll back ISIS, Barack Obama, whose leadership predictives have been tagged as meek for some time, showed the world he knows how to act as if ...
... Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry showed the willingness of presidents Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama to dialogue too. But complications involving anti-Assad Islamists supported by U.S. interests, taking part in the fighting in Syria, and Russian allegations that Chechen and Azeri extremists have been involved with the military... ... ground and air war. For now the sanctions regimes being imposed by major powers-- the United States and its NATO allies, and Russia-- has put food exporters in the crossfire...
... Cold War engagement on both sides.
In February U.S. president Barack Obama named a new undersecretary of state for public diplomacy ... ... contain and counter what Washington and its NATO allies view as Russia reverting to a policy of Soviet-era expansionism.
A replay ... ... “RT” a “propaganda bullhorn.” But the United States has a couple of those too. Kerry, like his boss, ... ... international community not to assign blame to Russian president Vladimir Putin and recommends that more negotiations over the future ...