Over In The Playground
The Beeb reports that Zero is mad at Putin and isn’t going to talk to him at recess: Obama cancels Putin meeting over Snowden asylum.
The Russians see things differently: Russia “disappointed” bilateral talks with US cancelled
Russian foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov said on Wednesday Russia was not to blame over the Snowden affair.
“This decision is clearly linked to the situation with former agent of US special services [Edward] Snowden, which hasn’t been created by us,” he said during a phone conference with the press.
“For many years, the Americans have avoided signing an extradition agreement,” Mr Ushakov said, “And they have invariably responded negatively to our requests for extradition of people who committed crimes on the territory of Russia, pointing at the absence of such agreement.”
“Do onto others as you would have them do onto you.” Alternately, “What goes around, comes around.”
“What we have here is failure to communicate.” Zero is one of the worst negotiators I have ever seen which leads me to believe he doesn’t even understand the basic concepts involved. This process was escalated to the top way too quickly, and Zero was making demands before he even discovered what the Russians might want. Zero made it impossible for Putin to turn over Snowden without looking like he was caving in to US demands.
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Well, I’m sure someone mentioned to Zero that Putin would undoubtedly diss him and make him look bad if they held this conference, so … (shrug). Somebody needs to sit him down and teach him poker. Just sayin’.
If Putin’s picture appears for ‘macho’, it seems like Zero’s will show up for ‘petulant’.
If we had ‘Cold War’ thinking going on, there would be Tu-95 incursions over Alaska, and Russian missile subs popping up off the coast. People seem to have forgotten what the Cold War was really all about. “Duck and Cover” was not very amusing when I was in grade school.