{"id":14326,"date":"2016-10-13T16:01:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T20:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=14326"},"modified":"2016-10-13T16:01:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T20:01:09","slug":"obamas-wrong-the-new-cold-wars-only-just-begun-the-daily-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/13\/obamas-wrong-the-new-cold-wars-only-just-begun-the-daily-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s Wrong: The New Cold War&#8217;s Only Just Begun | The Daily Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/10\/11\/barack-obama-s-wrong-the-new-cold-war-s-only-just-begun.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepatientinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/49205415-cached.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael Weiss writes: &#8220;From propaganda to missile deployments, Russian leader Vladimir Putin is testing Obama\u2019s resolve\u2014while claiming to be America\u2019s victim&#8221;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Putin has demanded, as the price for restoring at least the first frozen accord, that Washington end all sanctions against Russian officials; pay reparations for any losses sustained from those sanctions as well as retaliatory ones imposed by Russia against U.S. entities; cancel the Magnitsky Act, a landmark human rights law passed in 2012 aimed at penalizing corrupt and murderous Russian officials; reduce NATO personnel forces to levels they were as of 2000; and essentially rewrite the original radioactive disposal deal so America bears the brunt of the responsibility for it.<\/p>\n<p>In response to what was, even by Putin\u2019s standards, a risible attempt at extortion, the Russian opposition\u2019s Leonid Volkov wrote on Facebook: \u201cHe should have asked for Alaska back, eternal youth, Elon Musk and a ticket to Disneyland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.what a turn for Obama, who has spent the last eight years insisting that the \u201cCold War is over\u201d only to spend the eve of his departure witnessing its renascence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The response should be to talk softly and continue polishing that big stick.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/10\/11\/barack-obama-s-wrong-the-new-cold-war-s-only-just-begun.html\">Barack Obama\u2019s Wrong: The New Cold War&#8217;s Only Just Begun &#8211; The Daily Beast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Weiss writes: &#8220;From propaganda to missile deployments, Russian leader Vladimir Putin is testing Obama\u2019s resolve\u2014while claiming to be America\u2019s victim&#8221;&#8230;.. Putin has demanded, as the price for restoring at least the first frozen accord, that Washington end all sanctions against Russian officials; pay reparations for any losses sustained from those sanctions as well as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/13\/obamas-wrong-the-new-cold-wars-only-just-begun-the-daily-beast\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Obama\u2019s Wrong: The New Cold War&#8217;s Only Just Begun | The Daily Beast&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia-former-ussr","category-the-big-picture","category-us-canada-countries-regions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Obama\u2019s Wrong: The New Cold War&#039;s Only Just Begun | The Daily Beast - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obama\u2019s Wrong: The New Cold War&#039;s Only Just Begun | The Daily Beast - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Michael Weiss writes: &#8220;From propaganda to missile deployments, Russian leader Vladimir Putin is testing Obama\u2019s resolve\u2014while claiming to be America\u2019s victim&#8221;&#8230;.. 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