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By placing sanctions on Russia did Obama admit a major foreign policy failure?

Posted by richrobinson 7 years, 4 months ago to Politics
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In 2009 incoming President Barack Obama said that he and his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, would hit the "reset" button with Russia. Obama claimed that the Bush administration had strained Russian relations and he wanted to reach out to Vladimir Putin as a friend and ally. Now, in 2016, President Obama is leveling serious diplomatic sanctions on Russia claiming their cyber attacks affected the recent Presidential election. Is he admitting one of his major foreign policy goals was a miserable failure?


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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Unfortunately, they will regroup and enhance their tools of manipulation. Fortunately for us, all we have to do is to stop listening to them. I wish hillary supporters wore armbands with the "H" on them so at least I knew who they were before they opened their mouths.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The media hates Trump's tweets. I think its great, and I would rather he just tell us what he thinks directly than have it distorted and filtered through the media.
    I think we are entering the age where the internet lets us figure out for ourselves more and more what is really going on. The media tried to trash Trump big time, and it simply didnt work for them. Thats an example of their loss of power today. Same with Brexit. They thought they were masters of manipulation, but no so much as they thought
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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Truth. We see it now in the "fake news" issue being forced on us. It's just the MSM trying to destroy alternate news sources.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hard to argue with that. Obama has stirred up one mess after another. Trump has to figure out how to navigate the race war started here at home by this administration. I and the rest of the world are looking forward to January 20th..
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 7 years, 4 months ago
    Frankly...I think that the left likes war, death, hate, pain, destruction...etc. Deep down this is probably what motivates them to fan these false claims to this point, probably to start a war with Russia. I don't understand them. Mark my words. They see Syria as an avenue to this end. They can fold in some action with Turkey and get that whole hornets nest shaken up. They want to leave this on Trumps lap. If a bunch have to die, all the better to them...
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I have concluded the media isn't our friend. They have degenerated into just sending us whatever will get us to sit thru commercials. It's obvious we need whistleblowers because politicians and powerful businesses and powerful business people try to hide things that we need to know about. Whistleblowers are really heroes. We should bring Snowden and assange back as free men
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  • Posted by H2ungar123 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Re: Clinton's comment re: Obama after he won the
    '08 election....."A few years ago he would have been
    serving us coffee".....
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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No. I was actually trying to think of one but I can't. The successes he brags about are failures in my mind.
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  • Posted by BradA 7 years, 4 months ago
    One? One?
    OK, let's turn this around.
    Can anyone point to just ONE of Obama's foreign policy successes?
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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Excellent points. The media hasn't mentioned it but regardless of how we saw the e-mails it was a window into the thinking of the DNC and Hillarys campaign manager. Funny how quick they are to point out that these e-mails were obtained by Russian hackers but somehow Hillarys private server was completely secure.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 4 months ago
    On the subject of hacking- isnt it the responsibility of the person who wants to keep others from seeing what they write or do to make the information SECURE?? There will always be hackers, and when the information flows freely around a network, there will always be people who try to uncover it.

    Specifically in the case of the DNC mail leaks, I applaud the hackers for letting us see exactly what these politicians tried to hide from us. They deserve to have people know what they did. Wikileaks, Snowden, Manning, and even Russia didnt DO anything but tell us what was going on. Whats wrong with that??

    If the NSA is to perform a service, it should be making our communications secure, not spying on us.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I like your quote Fivedollargold. Obama had done nothing to indicate that he was prepared to be POTUS and yet he beat Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Hope we make it thru the next three weeks.
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  • Posted by fivedollargold 7 years, 4 months ago
    "Obama is an amateur." --Bill Clinton
    "Obama's next autobiography will set the gold standard for narcissistic whinefests."--Lyman Perl
    "Dr. Lawrence Peter was generally right in that people rise to their level of incompetence. However, Obama's career demonstrates that in politics one level of incompetence can serve as a stepping stone to another."--Fivedollargold
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm sure Putin was really impressed by all of Little Barry's bows to Muslim leaders that were not bows because a WH press secretary said so and the Chicken-In-Chief's red line in the sand episode.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Twenty days left. Hopefully Obamas temper tantrum ends before he causes a more serious international incident.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think Obama under estimated Putins resolve with respect to the Ukraine. I think he also over estimates the influence of the UN.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    He probably thought that by rubbing shoulders with Putin would make him look tougher. Putin wasn't interested in helping Obama at all.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 7 years, 4 months ago
    When the legally elected President of Ukraine, Yanukovych, was removed in a coup that was well financed and organized, it upset the deal being negotiated between Russia and Ukraine for closer economic ties. The Russians discovered that our CIA had assisted Ukrainian nationalists in orchestrating the coup, which knocked the legs out from under the "reset." Obama admitted we were assisting the "regime change": http://www.globalresearch.ca/washingt... . I guess you could call the overthrow of a neighboring government a "failure."
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  • Posted by wiggys 7 years, 4 months ago
    when ever 0 opens his mouth he speaks of failure, HIS!!!
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    IMO, Little Barry him wanted to kiss up to Putin in a really bad way, but Putin views the little him as a repulsive weakling.
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