... media losing credibility as diplomatic tool
According to the Guardian, U.S. president Barack Obama “lambasted” Putin. But it was make-believe. This was not a... ... Obama was preaching to the choir that resides in the fantasy land of conversational social media.
Obama, showing more grey hair and projecting the image of a wizened... ... tried to show the world that he could bully Putin.
“You're wrecking Russia to recreate the Soviet empire,” Obama said with Putin nowhere in sight...
... Gross Domestic Product (GDP), is merely at parity with half a dozen other key industrialized states in India and the rest is social media hype. Gurajat is a state of 62.5 million in a nation of 1.8 billion located on India’s border with Pakistan,... ... with a population of less than 10% the size of India (200 million) has a GDP that is nearly the same (2.24 trillion for 2013). Russia, with a population of around 165 million, generated a GDP for last year of 2.0 trillion. India and BRICS support Russia ...
... U.S. sanctions,” experts at the prestigious Brookings Institution have joined Washington’s effort to disrupt the Russian economy and punish nations who do business with it. Branded as the world’s most influential think tank with an endowment ... ... Foreign Minister Sergey 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 ...
... Kochavi made "miscalculations".
Bandar had sealed his fate last year during his secret visit outside Moscow with Russian president Vladimir Putin. He bragged that Riyadh controlled Chechen extremists in Russia, and that he would unleash them ... ... for the Assad regime in Syria.
Haaretz and Al Monitor reported that as far back as 2011, while Hillary Clinton was president Barack Obama’s secretary of state, Kochavi met with senior White House officials and others to discuss the Syria situation ...
... define the rules of Cold War engagement on both sides.
In February U.S. president Barack Obama named a new undersecretary of state for public diplomacy Richard Stengel... ... Obama’s base and contain and counter what Washington and its NATO allies view as Russia reverting to a policy of Soviet-era expansionism.
A replay of Kennan’s... ... looking are convenient for American “retail politics” and conversational social media but branded public diplomacy initiatives are proving themselves out of...
