... credibility as diplomatic tool
According to the Guardian, U.S. president Barack Obama “lambasted” Putin. But it was make-believe.... ... to the choir that resides in the fantasy land of conversational social media.
Obama, showing more grey hair and projecting the ... ... 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..
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... 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... ... from the state department “blacklist” that prohibited his entry into the United States over the incident involving the alleged massacre of Muslims, and Sikhs... ... 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...
... 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... ... 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... ... 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 ... ... for American “retail politics” and conversational social media but branded public diplomacy initiatives are proving ... ... “RT” a “propaganda bullhorn.” But the United States has a couple of those too. Kerry, like his boss, ...
