... 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 leader, 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. Obama also said that president Putin's strategy (regarding Ukraine) is “wrong headed,” suggesting that the U.S. leader thinks there may be something ...
... to link geopolitical issues with football and disrupt FIFA's business model, which they claim remains a cesspool of corruption and bribery.
Petro Poroshenko, the pro-Washington president of Ukraine, is calling for a boycott of the FIFA 2018 Russia World Cup. The move is reminiscent of U.S. President Jimmy Carter's boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, in which he also used food as a political weapon.
FIFA claims it earned an overall gross profit of $2.6 billion on the ...
... of Time magazine.
Since that time, the tenor of U.S. public diplomacy, wittingly, or unwittingly, has taken on a Cold War tone in an effort to energize president 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 Cold War tactics of economic and political isolation and his psychological assessment of Russians as being inherently neurotic and inward looking are convenient for ...
... communities, including those who generally oppose each other, there is a common, unwritten rule that the best security is quiet, silent. You don’t see it, feel it or hear it. This view was confirmed recently by Sergey Ivanov, chief of staff for Russian Federation president Vladimir Putin, responding to questions from the international online media platform “RT.”
France is an example and it is using nuclear diplomacy to increase its global footprint. France derives around 87 percent ...
