After Russia’s annexation of Crimea in
March this year, President Obama had this to say about President Putin in an
interview on CBS News:
He’s been willing to show a deeply
held grievance about what he considers to be the loss of the Soviet Union. You
would have thought that after a couple of decades that there’d be an awareness
on the part of any Russian leader that the path forward does not revert back to
the kinds of practices that, you know, were so relevant during the Cold War.
In April 2005, on national Russian
television, Vladimir Putin lamented that the dissolution of the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics (USSR) left tens of millions of his fellow countrymen
outside Moscow’s command. The break-up of the Soviet Empire was “the greatest
geopolitical catastrophe of the century”. Clearly, President Putin’s
understanding of “the path forward”, which aims to reconcile the reach of the
Soviet Empire with a born-again Holy Mother Russia, contrasts sharply with six
years of President Obama’s multilateral New World Order.
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