Obama and Putin

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Clarissa

March 2, 2014

Obama is holding lengthy phone conversations with Putin, explaining to the Russian president that his invasion of Ukraine violates international law.

These conversations are a royal waste of time. Putin couldn’t care less about international law. To him, Russia us exceptional, it is the new future world leader that exists on a different plane from tiresome international accords and laws.

Obama’s international advisors are not very educated because he routinely addresses Putin in terms that are not likely to work.

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7 responses to “Obama and Putin”

el

March 2, 2014

Russians could say, not incorrectly, that USA has violated international law itself when desiring to attack Middle East countries.

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1. Clarissa
  
  March 2, 2014
  
  And that’s exactly what they are saying. Which is why I believe this is a ridiculous line of argument for Obama to make.
  
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2. Kyle
  
  March 3, 2014
  
  That is very debatable. And the U.S., unlike Russia, did not just invade Iraq all by itself, it first went to the U.N. and got a lot of other countries lined up in support. It also did not turn Iraq into a permanent colony and never took a drop of the oil from Iraq.
  
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el

March 2, 2014

May be, they were also discussing “a Coasean deal”, from your Link Post. A conversation that lasted 1.5 hours had to include more than “you are bad guys, stop now.”

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musteryou

March 2, 2014

Australia is getting this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsarbeitsdienst

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thevenerablecorvex

March 2, 2014

” To him, Russia is exceptional, it is the new future world leader that exists on a different plane from tiresome international accords and laws.”

Sounds shockingly similar to American exceptionalism.

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1. Clarissa
  
  March 2, 2014
  
  That’s the thing, any nation needs to consider itself exceptional in order to exist. But when this (very silly) belief is supplemented with a nuclear arsenal an enormous territory and huge resources. . . that’s when things become scary.
  
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