Metamorphosis of the outgoing President Barack Obama, which occurred during a visit to Berlin, gathering more reviews. The tone of today’s Obama’s attitude towards Russia absolutely other, than at the beginning of his presidency.
Two years ago at the UN General Assembly in new York, the US President has put Russia in one row with the Ebola virus, which has claimed more than ten thousand of human lives, and banned in Russia as a terrorist organization ISIS.
The Berlin Declaration of the American President will surely go down in history as the most controversial of all, which he ever did. Eight years of open confrontation with Russia, which many are calling a new round of the cold war, and now in the care of Barack Obama is difficult to know.
“As for Russia, my point from the moment I became President, has always been unchanged. Russia – is an important country, it is a military superpower, it has influence in the region and around the world. And for us to find a solution to the greater part of the world’s greatest challenges, we need to work together with Russia. It is in our interest to seek the possibility to cooperate with it,” he said yesterday in Berlin the American leader.
Judging from Obama’s statement, he dreams about the possibility to cooperate with Russia, while Moscow in recent years proudly turned away at the meeting and did not shake hands with America. May assistants simply confused the text because the words of the head of the White house defy logical explanation.
“The US has many challenges. Russia is a regional power that is not because of the power, but because of its weakness poses a threat to some of its closest neighbors,” said Obama in March 2014.
Now five minutes the former US President said that Washington needs a successful Russia, with a strong economy and good neighbors.
Gradually, however, Obama’s rhetoric again becomes recognizable: he insists on the alleged evidence of Russian involvement in cyber attacks against the United States, calls for tougher sanctions against Russia and elected the head of the White house advises to get tougher with Moscow.
“I hope that when the newly elected U.S. President takes office, he will take a constructive approach. He will find areas where our views coincide and we can work together, but it will also confront Russia where their views are at odds with ours,” said Obama.
Under the current American President the views of Washington and Moscow differed in almost every way, including Ukraine, Syria or the expansion of a missile defense system in Europe.
Moreover, two years ago, Obama declared Russia the world’s number one threat worse than terrorists and Ebola.
“In the interests of the military-security complex, whose budget received from the U.S. government, up to one trillion dollars per year. But the objective reason is the huge amount of money would need to take from the taxpayers, does not exist. Therefore, they need an enemy. And the enemy that is easiest to believe, is Russia”, – said the political scientist Paul Craig Roberts.
American leader in the last days of the presidency contradicts itself: says one thing and urged to do more.
“On the negative to ensure the continuity, in my opinion, will not work, because as President Putin with President-elect trump spoke by phone and discussed the state of Affairs in our relations worse. And probably, it is necessary to proceed. And if President Obama wants it continued, I’m sure it’s not in the interests of the American people, not in the interests of solving the problems in the world in General, because of our two countries depends very much”, – said the Minister of foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov.
It is worth noting that immediately after the departure of Obama from Berlin, where the President was visiting, the White house issued a press release stating the decision of the US and the EU to keep sanctions against Russia. While German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters that during the meeting the question of sanctions did not exist.
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