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It got almost no notice, but at yesterday’s Senate hearing on Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry made a stunning revelation: President Obama is backtracking on his decision not to meet with President Vladimir Putin during the president’s visit to Russia.
Recall: Obama cancelled his summit with Putin because of Russia’s decision to provide asylum to fugitive NSA leaker Edward Snowden. An incensed White House said that Obama would neither travel to Moscow for a meeting with Putin, nor would have a bilateral meeting with Putin at the G20 Summit in St. Petersburg.
On August 7, the New York Times reported:
President Obama on Wednesday canceled next month’s Moscow summit meeting, ending for now his signature effort to transform Russian-American relations and potentially dooming his aspirations for further nuclear arms cuts before leaving office….
So i wonder how this meeting will go, what do you think?
Originally posted by Sharingan
reply to post by earthling42
So i wonder how this meeting will go, what do you think?
I think it would be really cool if Putin bonked Obama right in the nose.
He will have ample opportunity to hear firsthand from President Putin
, and I’m confident they’ll have a discussion about it.
In the meantime, Presidents Obama and Hollande are likely to continue lobbying other world leaders at the summit to accept their alleged evidence that Assad's regime was behind the deadly attack on the eastern Ghouta suburbs, which the White House says killed more than 1,400 people.
G-20 host President Putin, however, is a staunch ally of President Assad's regime, and he'll be wielding his own evidence to convince the other heads of state in St. Petersburg that the U.S. and French governments are rushing into military action without solid proof of who was behind the chemical attack.
I think, Putin, being the somewhat 'manly-man' he presents himself as actually makes Obama uncomfortable ... off kilter .... not on 'his game', per se. too 'intimidating' for Barack's seemingly more 'mild-mannered' approach/ 'feigned-diplomatic' nature. an absolute personality clash, imho. (?)
Originally posted by earthling42
So i wonder how this meeting will go, what do you think?