Posted on 02/20/2014 2:31:19 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Obama: Ukraine, Syria are not pieces on ‘some Cold-War chessboard’
By Olivier Knox, Yahoo News 7 hours ago Yahoo News
President Barack Obama denied late Wednesday that Russian-US tensions over Syria and Ukraine were playing out on “some Cold-War chessboard” even as he acknowledged deep divisions between Moscow and Washington.
Obama, speaking at a joint press conference after a North American leaders’ summit, also flatly denied that the United States had played a role in stirring up the people against their government, saying that the uprisings “arose organically from within those countries.”
“I do think it is worth noting that you have, in this situation, one country that has clearly been a client state of Russia, another whose government is currently being supported by Russia,” he said.
But “our approach in the United States is not to see these as some Cold-War chessboard in which we're in competition with Russia,” the president continued.
“Our goal is to make sure that the people of Ukraine are able to make decisions for themselves about their future, that the people of Syria are able to make the decisions without having bombs going off and killing women and children, or chemical weapons, or towns being starved because a despot wants to cling to power,” he said.
“Mr. Putin has a different view on many of those issues, and I don't think that there's any secret on that,” he said, referring to Russia’s president.
Russian-U.S. tensions have spiked partly as a consequence of both conflicts.
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Excellent.
Or Putin playing Chess and Harvard Educated Obama playing Checkers.
He told them yesterday that if the situation continues, there would be consequences. I'll bet they're worried now.
I take issue with those accusing obama of playing checkers.
To play checkers well you have to think about it. This ia an activity way above obama’s capabilities.
obama plays tiddly-winks (and poorly at that)
Wow! Such powerful metaphor. A regular Chattie Cathie.
Hey Barack!
Not when YOU are on the side fighting to destroy America!
Obama has no clue about War and the politics of War. His advisors are just as stupid.
How naïve can he really be. Here the opponent is a cold war chess player, and he came, I guess, with checkers...or candy crusher.
They are chess pieces and Obama barely knows checkers.
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