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Bush Brother Calls Putin “Bully”, Warns Of “Consequences” For Russia If Elected
zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden on 06/10/2015 18:30
On Monday we highlighted what looks to be the new campaign strategy for Republican presidential hopefuls: blame the “Putin boogeyman.”
Note that this goes beyond the usual Russophobic rhetoric that plays well with the hopelessly naive American public. In 2009, Hillary Clinton famously presented Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov with a big red “reset” button which the two pressed together in a priceless (for its sheer absurdity) photo op in Geneva. The media spectacle was meant to mark a new era for US-Russian relations.
Like many other promises made in the early days of the Obama presidency, the Russian relations reset has not gone according to plan.
In fact, one annexation, one bloody proxy war, innumerable thinly-veiled nuclear threats, and six years later, and the only thing that’s been “reset” in US-Russian relations is the Cold War.
Now, with tensions running high on the heels of escalating violence in Ukraine, calls for stepped up economic sanctions on Moscow, and a shifting US strategy that will reportedly involve measures to “contain” the Russian threat, the likely Republican frontrunner is trying his hand at casting Putin as the embodiment of Democrats’ failed foreign policy. Jeb Bush, who is traveling in Europe ahead of announcing his candidacy, notes that when it comes to Putin, the unassuming subtlety that typically characterizes Bush family foreign policy should be discarded. Reuters has more:
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Source: http://silveristhenew.com/2015/06/10/bush-brother-calls-putin-bully-warns-of-consequences-for-russia-if-elected-2/
