The "Putin Is Isolated" Meme Officially Dies As Japan Calls For Closer Ties With Russia
One of the great ironies of the Obama administration’s foreign policy record is the extent to which Washington started 2009 with designs on normalizing frosty relations with Russia and started 2015 with the worst US-Russo dynamic since the Cold War.
To be sure, not all of that was Washington’s fault - but most of it was.
Of course the international community probably should have curbed its enthusiasm early on, given that the entire effort got off to a rather inauspicious start when then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented Sergei Lavrov with a big red button that was supposed to say “reset” (a nod to the “resetting” of relations between Washington and Moscow) but which actually said “overcharged” in Russian.
("overcharged")
Six years, one annexed Crimea, a raft of economic sanctions, and one Ukrainian civil war later, and we’re back to Soviet-era politics.
Part and parcel of Washington’s PR and foreign policy strategy over the last three or so years has been to perpetuate the idea that Vladimir Putin is “isolated” on the world stage. This, along with subtle reminders in the media and on the silver screen that America needs to preserve a healthy bit of Russophobia if it is to be safe, has worked domestically, but not internationally.
Russia has strengthened ties with China, kicked off the BRICs bank, cemented an alliance with Iran (another “isolated” state), and worked to de-dollarize everything from oil markets to cross-border financial transactions.
Moscow’s dramatic entry into the Syrian conflict and Russia's common sense approach to ending the years-long affair has resonated with the likes of France and everyone else who understands that the way to fight terror is to kill the terrorists, not arm them.
Indeed, The Kremlin’s successful attempt to wake the world up to the fact that Washington and its regional allies are actually exacerbating the war in Syria by arming rebel groups with questionable motives has gone a long way towards forcing the international community to rethink who the “good” superpower really is.
Now, in what may be the best evidence yet that the “Putin is isolated” meme is officially dead, none other than US ally Japan is ready to “bring Putin in from the cold.”
“Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is pressing for President Vladimir Putin to be brought in from the cold, saying Russian help is crucial to tackling multiple crises in the Middle East,” FT writes, adding that “Mr Abe said he was willing to go to Moscow as this year’s chair of the Group of Seven advanced economies, or to invite the Russian president to Tokyo.” Here’s more:
Pointing to tension between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the war in Syria, and the threat of radical Islamism, Mr Abe said: “We need the constructive engagement of Russia.”
The former G8 excluded Russia following its annexation of Crimea and military support for separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine. But while Japan has joined in sweeping economic sanctions, Mr Abe made clear he wants to work with Mr Putin.
“As chair of the G7, I need to seek solutions regarding the stability of the region as well as the whole world,” he said, noting Japan’s ongoing territorial dispute with Russia over the Kuril Islands. “I believe appropriate dialogue with Russia, appropriate dialogue with president Putin is very important.”
As the only Asian nation in the club of rich democracies, Japan prizes its G7 membership, and Mr Abe is determined to make the most of the Ise-Shima summit he will host in May.
This is the kind of talk that will get you blacklisted in Washington and we wonder how long it will be before Abe gets a courtesy call from the Obama to remind Tokyo of the grave "threat" Putin poses to global peace and security.
Or maybe The White House will take a step back and ponder whether decades of foreign policy blunders combined with a misplaced (and highly off-putting) sense of exceptionalism have now left America as the "isolated" superpower.
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"We isolated some folks..."
LOL and the Pentagon mocked Putin for re-fortifying the Kuriles. I guess Japan has realized what a POS ally we have become.
This is one long Ass Chees game Putin is playing.
Re: Russia Isolated: Only a Neocon/Neoliberal humanitarian bomber would believe such an utterly stupid narrative. The MSM whore media dutifully repeats the lie, but I doubt that even the idiots at CNN believe their own BS. One look at a world map, where Russia occupies 1/7th of the worlds landmass, and shares borders with more countries than any other nation on earth, proves how cretinous the Obamanation administration really is. Not to mention 'insignificant' details such as Russia has one of the worlds most advanced military's (the only country in the world that could turn the USSA into glass) produces more oil than the Saudi's, and is the number one supplier of Natural Gas to the EU.
If Obama spent less time playing 'Italian' Golf with Reggie love (putter in the hole, balls outside) our foreign policy might be a tiny bit less dysfunctional. Then again, Obama decides nothing. He is a bankster minion, parroting his teleprompter like a good house boy.
I hope you know the difference between Saudis and Saudi's and it was the autocorrect on you tablet or phone that did that.
We're pretty well versed on the difference between the oligarchs and the people.
We know who is referenced without nit-picking.
It must be hard for Japan to align with China on this issue, but it only make sense to have a balance of world power. US "exceptionalism" must cease.
I guess Japan wants some of that Sakhalin island money...
Interesting info. Japan has a bit of a obsession with the Apocalypse in their pop culture (never mind some of their OTHER pop culture obsessions).
This is actually because the Japanese have, from their perspective, already HAD the Apocalype, the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki! Crazy stuff. The next time you wonder "Where do these people come up with this stuff?" Well, now you know.
We tried to isolate some folks.
Anybody know the #1 passport of our dual-citizen government policymakers? Buehler?
Remember... threat without the H is treat.
There goes Azia...
Nurnburg trials for War Crinimals. What a novel concept. I like the Dr Evil wardrobe.
Joo World Order installation has encountered problems. Do you want to troubleshoot? Yes?
No
I prefer Clippy as the ultimate do-gooder:
"It looks like you're planning world domination. Would you like help?"
Yeah right. Remember when Obozo was voted in by the free shit army and they wanted Obozo to go after Bush & Cheney for war crimes? LMFAO - that idea died before the cocksucker took office.
Make sure there's room (and rope) for hundreds of Presstitute traitors.
The idea of exceptionalism implies that they are exempt from the rules that apply to other people.
How awkward of you to bring that up now. That is a revelation for the generation of revisionist historians after the next. The next will finally understand that the evidence for 9/11 FF was valid, Jesus all those people weren't crazy after all, it was another example of groupthink and King's clothes like they said all those years, poor deluded fools.
The one after that revisioniost history frees everyone of guilt, allows them to think their civilizaton genuinely the best ever, and so exceptional, can be like us, wondering wtf? Can't you guys see what is in front of your face?
Ours is the generation where we have the psychiatrists writing books explaining all of the crazies, some of the Fox 'news' segments are so over-the-top simple it makes you wonder who their audience is, or perhaps how they got where they must be, anyone still watching, and various other intellectual prostitutes providing the intellectual foundation for another reign of propaganda. Wow, right in front of everyone, and none appear to see.
So awkward of you to notice.
Clearly, they are not all in this group, just as they were not all followers of either Jesus or the Pharisees. But the Central Bankers aka Neoliberals/Neoconservatives, certainly seem to be worshipping the Golden Calf. They even put a huge bronze bull on Wall Street.
I keep going back to Moses and God rescuing them from Pharoah, whereupon, instead of humbly reflecting, they created a Golden Calf. I imagine this was their thinking "let's get even with Pharoah by becoming richer than him", when maybe they should have been thinking, "let's humbly return to our Promised Land and try to think about what we did wrong to get sent to be enslaved by Pharoah in the first place." I guess they were some very left-brained people.
Well... self-love, self-will, and self-justification constitute "sin". "Sin" is "missing the target". The target is the Kingdom of Heaven, and the Kingdom of Heaven is within, and the archer who would hit that target must practice humility. The Golden Calf, or the Wall Street bull, is the symbol of financial empire, or control of others, a Kingdom without, not within, and the archers aiming at that target seem to practice vanity. No man can practice both humility and vanity. No archer can aim at both the Kingdom within and the Kingdom without. No man can serve two masters.
There is an unwritten agreement that no administration goes after the previous one. They all do things that they should not do. Without the security of knowing that their illegal activities will be left in the past they would actually have to follow the law. What's a psychopath to do?
Too funny on multiple levels. LMFAO
Friggen awesome Banzai!
Chairperson Obola...
*I HAD A DRONE*
So did Clinton and Bush.
Bushes, Clntons, Obola, Paul Ryan, McCain = is there any difference? All puppets for Soros, Adelson, Zuckerberg, Red Sheild, CFR et al.
Please don't elevate Zuckerburglar to some master status.
He is only an errand boy.
If only the "Hague" gave a shit!
The US Congress adopted a law that specifies that the Hague can be invaded in case an American is brought there to stand trial. We talk about a city in a country (the Netherlands) that is one of the US oldest and most loyal allies. A country that spent billions in nowadays money to help the young US Republic in its fight against the Brits.
Lets hope they give Obama the same treatment the tribe assigned torturers gave to the German leadership.
https://www.darkmoon.me/2015/torture-and-testicle-crushing-at-nuremberg/
The more Japan has to pay for commodities, the longer they can keep the farce of inflation alive. With such a dramatic drop in rub/usd, and oil priced in $usd it makes sense for Japan to buy Russian oil.
Smoke and mirrors, to keep Abe and Kuroda in power.
Damn vassal state getting out of line. Drop another nuke on those fuckers and show them who is boss. Better yet have GE build them another reactor.
LOL - that's fucked up man...
GE = Genocide Enterprise
GE = Giant Error
Your country, USA, is toast! Everyone now want Russia as an ally. See what happens when you let joos run the show?
Bye buy America!
We'll be okay once we get rid of these treaonous globalist bastards-and I'm not just referring to the Joos. We will pay the price first - the price to pay for getting rid of thes demons is worth it -We have no choice-they are leading us to calamity and destruction.
...leading? Uh, we've arrived in case you've been in a coma for a decade or two...
DallasSavy is not too savy. The point that he misses as he did not study history is that joos are like cockroaches. He thinks that removal of a few banksters will solve the problem. HA!
It looks like we humans just might get something good from the cockroaches (the 6 legged kind):
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/09/10/cockroaches-have-su...
they found cockroaches in the most radiation contaminated areas of chernobyl.
A web site theorized that Japan was hit with undersea nukes to cause the tsunami because they were going to reprocess Iranian nuke fuel. Who got the security gig at Fukishima just before the event? Same people who ran security at US airports and the World Trade Center before 9/11.
I think with sound money and a sane foreign policy geared toward trade and good will with others, the USA could be great again.
Yes. Problem is that psychopaths do not think like that.
Let us remember that Vlad is a zionist-controlled puppet. His role is to play the role of the evil villain in world affairs.
We peddled fiction to some folks...
Yeah but can you really take example on tentacle porn lovers?
Looks like everything's going according to plan...