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Demeter

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5. Frenemies Forever: Why Putin And Obama Can't Get Along

Thu Sep 12, 2013, 09:11 PM

Sep 2013

(IT'S BECAUSE ONE IS A BRILLIANT MAN AND A POLITICAL GENIUS AT POWER AND SURVIVAL, AND THE OTHER THINKS HE IS, BECAUSE EVERYBODY TOLD HIM HE WAS, UNTIL LATELY...)

http://www.npr.org/2013/09/12/221774010/frenemies-forever-why-putin-and-obama-cant-get-along?ft=1&f=1001

Leaders who respect each other and have a good relationship don't mock each other.

Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin do not have a good relationship.

Just as Russia and the U.S. are attempting to work out a delicate deal to rid Syria of chemical weapons, the Russian president published an OP-ED in The New York Times thumbing his nose at President Obama.

Reactions to the affront have been strong.

AND IT GOES DOWNHILL FROM THERE...

The op-ed "is an 'I told you so,' basically," Rutland says. "He's probably tired of giving the U.S. the same lesson and decided to lay it out in words of one syllable."

TANSY AND I AND ALL OF YOU KNOW ALL ABOUT THAT PROBLEM....THE STAMP, PLEASE!

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