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Putin Set To Be Russian President Again

This Is Why The Russian Election Build Up Has Been So Weirdly Sexual …. The country is obviously embracing Singapore model, and Putin is superb manager. Terrible for the West, though, since VP is no sellout. Reply …

Publish Date: 09/24/2011 18:42

http://www.businessinsider.com/putin-set-to-be-russian-president-again-2011-9

What worries Putin more — re-election, or fracking? | The Oil and the …

oilandglory.foreignpolicy.com12/15/11

Vladimir Putin now has something in common with Barack Obama — approval ratings in the fortieth percentile. So he and his machine are figuring out how to give Russians a better picture of who he is, and what he plans in the …

Obama Is Quickly Downgrading America’s Hegemony

Whilst Obama is focusing on making America just like any other country (his words, not mine) and ending its hegemony, Putin continues to focus uncompromisingly on restoring imperial Russia, and they’re both succeeding.

Putin might be ruthless, unforgiving and murderous but he also has a very clear vision of what he wants and has a stunning ability to spot the weaknesses in every one of his foreign counterparts.

Let’s Take At Look At What Putin’s Been Up To

He agreed to get rid of Russia’s old junk nuclear arsenal which he wanted to get rid of anyway, and what he got in exchange was a weakening of America’s conventional capabilities, something which goes by the name of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.

Meanwhile he cut an arms deal worth five billion dollars with Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez who hates the US and this comes on top of a previous four billion dollar deal, and Chavez clearly purchased the arms with the intention of using them to take over Columbia.

One of Putin’s long term goals has been to get the Ukraine back into the Russian fold and he’s now close to having achieved it.

Kazakhstan, which is a keystone Central Asian state and a major energy supplier is now edging closer to Moscow.

Much to the Administrations surprise, Putin supported the overthrow of the US backed government of Kyrgyzstan, meaning that he now has greater control over America’s northern supply route into Afghanistan.

Russia continues both its overt and covert and trade with Tehran whilst leading the White House to believe that it will support meaningful sanctions against Iran; and this is being achieved by using the old but in this case very transparent good cop, bad cop routine, and Putin and Dmitry Medvedev must be chuckling at Washington’s seeming naivety.

Domestically, Putin continues to extend his control over the economy and the media and can’t really be openly criticized because he uses targeted assassinations and arrests rather than cracking down on the masses, which is something that he doesn’t really need to do anyway, because the vast majority of Russian love him.

Last week’s airplane crash which brought about the deaths of Poland’s fiercely anti-Russian president and his key advisers appears to be moving Russia and Poland closer together.

So far, Obama’s response to the above has been to snub Georgia’s president, Mikhail Saakashvili which will enable Putin to renew his aggression against the struggling democracy in Tbilisi, although Obama did find time however for Putin’s Ukrainian puppet, President Viktor Yanukovych.

I can’t say if Putin is a good man or a bad man as that depends on one’s perspective, but it can be said that Putin is probably the most capable living politician and that he is running rings around the present US administration, and sadly they don’t even seem to notice it.

For more on Obama’s failed foreign policies and on how he has alienated every one of America’s previous allies, whilst gaining nothing in return, please read Slapping Friends Around And Kissing Up To Enemies.

Prof. Niall Ferguson on Obama: A colossal failure of American foreign

The result has been a foreign-policy debacle. The president has alienated everybody: not only Mubarak's cronies in the military, but also the youthful crowds in the streets of Cairo. Whoever ultimately wins, Obama loses. …

Publish Date: 09/30/2011 6:43

http://politicalarena.org/2011/09/29/prof-niall-ferguson-on-obama-a-colossal-failure-of-american-foreign-policy/

RealClearPolitics – President's Foreign Policy Failures Increase

President Obama, like most American presidents, is lucky that the public pays little attention to foreign policy and rarely casts its votes on the basis of presidential foreign-policy performance. It required something as dramatic …

Publish Date: 09/28/2011 5:53

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/09/28/presidents_foreign_policy_failures_increase_111498.html

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ObamaCare finally scraped through and seems too have given Obama a little boost back home, but his overseas agenda is looking worse and worse.

Before going into the blunders it needs to be said that although the Obama administration did achieve a missile treaty with Russia, it was far more profitable for Russia than for the U.S. because Russia needed to reduce the costs of its nuclear arsenal, and the arms talks with the U.S. gave it some wanted prestige.

So Who Has Obama Upset So Far?

Canada

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton publicly criticized the Canadians for failing to invite all eight members of the Arctic Council to a recent consultation and the following day, the Canadian Foreign announced that Canada will be ending its Afghan mission next year.

Just one day after the above was written, Clinton again publicly attacked Canada.

This time critiquing it’s approach to abortion.

Israel

Obama behaved as badly as is possible by telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he was going to have dinner and hoped that Netanyahu would have come up with some better ideas by the time he returned.

The E.U.

The administration recently angered the EU by refusing to attend a summit in Madrid and the EU powers are no longer leaping to Washington’s support on Afghanistan.

Britain

The administration angered Britain by seeming to side with Argentina over negotiations about the Falklands Islands and a British parliamentary committee has just pronounced the US-UK special relationship as over.

Afghanistan

Afghanistan’s  President Karzai was angered because his visit was cancelled.

Brazil

Obama upset the Brazilians by rushing over to Copenhagen to try and snatch the 2016 Olympics from Rio and Brazil’s President Lula da Silva has now publicly rejected Secretary Clinton’s public request for support for a sanctions resolution at the U.N.

Turkey

Turkey is angry about the passing of another version of the Armenian genocide resolution through a key House committee and it’s now getting closer to Iran with Russia.

Obama Is Perceived As Weak And Naïve

North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela and Iran have totally rejected the administrations overtures and the administration’s actions have simply given the world the impression that the administration is weak.

It’s possible that the reason that Israel is being given such a hard time right now, is not so much because of its insistence on building homes in east Jerusalem, but because the U.S. needs to gain some badly needed credibility.

April 7, 2010

Just a quick follow up to the above;

via Ganguly: India Is Annoyed With Obama – Newsweek.com.