PRESIDENT PUTIN hardened his position on Syria, while taking aim at Mitt Romney’s claim that Russia is “without question our No. 1 geopolitical foe.” It’s then that he weighed in on the 2012 election in America.
Putin took aim at Obama’s Republican rival Mitt Romney, calling his criticism of Russia “mistaken” campaign rhetoric and suggesting a Romney presidency would widen the rift over the anti-missile shield the United States is deploying in Europe. [Reuters]
Russia’s suspicions that the shield is aimed to weaken it would only deepen if Romney were elected and pushed ahead with it because the Republican “considers us enemy No.1″, Putin said.
Romney once called Russia “without question our No. 1 geopolitical foe”, and has promised “less flexibility and more backbone” in policy on Russia if he wins the Nov. 6 election.
“As for Mr. Romney’s position, we understand that it is in part…campaign rhetoric, but I think it is, of course, without a doubt mistaken,” Putin said.
“Because to conduct oneself like that in the international arena is the same as using the instruments of nationalism and segregation in the domestic politics of your own country.”
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Romney is so 1950s. Is this what we really want? There are other ways of taking on the problems but I guess Romney has only tunnel vision. So let’s start up another “Cold War.”
I’m glad someone in the comments labeled Romney’s rhetoric “another ‘Cold War.’”
Only those who lived it evidently can recognize it.
On foreign policy, Romney’s as dangerous as George W. Bush, maybe moreso, because he never had George H.W. Bush to watch, who at least had an Arabist whispering in his ear, by the name of James Baker.
Taylor – I lived through the entire “Cold War” from its inception. I remember all too well. Sometimes I want to forget but then if I didn’tteach my children and grandchildren about the Cold War they would learn nothing about the past. And as the old saying goes “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana said this in the early 1900s, I believe. from Life of Reason: Vol. 1: Reason and Common Sense.
Another reason for me to vote for Romney. Nothing like having someone who wants to take Russia back to the old ways plugging for Obama. Too freaking scary.
I still want to know what Obama whispered in Medvedev’s ear.