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| Obama campaign gets long sought endorsements |
| 2011-05-01 |
| The U.S. president’s announcement, made in an e-mail to supporters Monday, sent many in Moscow praising the achievements of a “reset” in relations that has become a hallmark of both Obama’s and Dmitry Medvedev’s presidencies. “I will be very happy to see a second Obama term because this will mean a maximum in policy continuity regarding Russia,” Mikhail Fedotov, head of Medvedev’s human right’s council, said by telephone Tuesday. His comments were echoed by Alexei Malashenko, an analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center, who said a second Obama term would be the best possible outcome for Moscow because there was no more capable or promising leader in current U.S. politics. “He is the first U.S. president completely free of Cold War thinking,” Malashenko explained. Konstantin Kosachyov, chairman of the State Duma’s International Affairs Committee, also has enthusiastically embraced Obama as Moscow’s obvious choice. “Obama’s global agenda is much better and more productive than what was proposed by his predecessors,” Kosachyov, who is also a leading member of United Russia, said in comments published on the party’s web site Monday. But Kosachyov made it clear that what he liked about Obama’s stance on Russia might seem a weakness to others. Previous administrations, he said, defined U.S. national interests as meaning world dominance, while Obama accepts the concept of a multipolar world as being compatible with its national interests. Fellow United Russia Deputy Sergei Markov put it more bluntly. “We should support Obama because “he softened support for anti-Russian regimes in our neighborhood, like that of [Georgian President Mikheil] Saakashvili,” he said by telephone.” |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #2 Might have been one reason Patton wanted to march on to Moscow. Just imagine he had |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2011-05-01 21:59 |
| #1 The infamous courtship of a patrician and a revolutionist Roosevelt and Stalin Robert Nisbet Then, in August 1944, the Soviets cruelly widened their attack. Germans were still in 206 Summer/Fall1986 occupation of Warsaw but preparing to retreat from the city. Moscow Radio for days secretly called upon the Polish Home Guard in Warsaw to revolt on a certain day, promising that the already-advancing Soviet army would move in immediately to engage the Germans. Instead, after the Polish uprising in Warsaw began, the incoming Soviet troops suddenly stopped at a river a few miles from Warsaw and watched the spectacle over several days of Nazi massacre of the rebelling Home Guard. This ugly display of Soviet barbarism took place, it must be realized, three months after the Normandy landing, after Paris had been freed, and after there was only the slightest threat to Russia from the German armies. The world was shocked, and when the British and Americans asked Stalin for permission to use Soviet air fields if any of their own planes were crippled and forced to land in their mission of dropping supplies for the Warsaw Poles, the answer was a sharp no. The reactions by Churchill and Roosevelt were individually characteristic. Churchill, on August 25, sent Roosevelt a draft telegram to Stalin for Roosevelt’s concurrence, one begging for a relenting of the Soviet decision in order that the British and Americans, on their own responsibility alone, might help. Roosevelt, on the very next day, replied stiffly: “In consideration of Stalin’s present attitude in regard to relief of the Polish underground.. . I do not consider it advantageous to the long-range, general war prospect for me to join with you in the proposed message.”35 It was about this time that Churchill wrote Roosevelt to say that Chaim Web mann (head of the World Zionist Organization) had asked that the Jews be allowed to organize a brigade of their own, with their own commanders, uniform, flag, et cetera, to join in the war against the Germans. Churchill was all for it, and he was obviously eager to have Roosevelt join him. But the President’s reply was a model of brevity and coldness: “I perceive no objection toyour organizing a Jewish brigade as suggested.”% End of message. Klik hier |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-05-01 21:18 |