In Last Farewell, Russia Slams Obama Whose “Dumb” Actions “Claimed Tens Of Thousands Of Lives”

zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / Jan 20, 2017

In a scathing Facebook post, Russia’s former president and current Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev (who less than five years ago was assured by Obama that “he would have more flexibility”) gave his final assessment of US-Russia relations during the Obama administration, and lashed out at the outgoing US president, accusing him of destroying relations “between the United States and Russia, which are at their lowest point in decades” and predicting that “this is its key foreign policy mistake which will be remembered by history.”

Medvedev was relentless, saying “US-Russia relations completely fell apart by the end of the second term of the Obama administration,” which has shown itself to be “short-sighted on such an important and complex issue as relations with Russia.”

Despite some initial achievements in US-Russian relations, when “our countries signed a nuclear weapons reduction treaty, and Russia and the United States played a leading role in resolving the controversy surrounding the Iranian nuclear program” which gave “hope” to Russia that the two countries could establish good relations, that did not happen, for one reason: “the most important thing was to remember that Russia is not a banana republic (even though equal dialogue is a must with all members of the international community).”

Obama’s mistake? Belittling a foe which saw itself a more equal with every passing day, “a country with defensive capabilities equal to the United States,” and a permanent seat at the UN Security Council (UNSC) deserved a different approach. “It is important to remember that Russia-US relations, without exaggeration, determine the fate of major international initiatives.”

Why did Obama fail to grasp that foreign policy is a two-way street? Simple: according to Medvedev, “there is only one explanation for such actions: the interests of the United States. An explanation which is entirely defensible in America itself, though much less so in other countries.” But, he added accusing Obama not just of callousness, but outright stupidity, “the real issue lies elsewhere– the failure to understand one’s own true interests.”

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