Obama To Make Russia-US Relations Even Worse At G-20 Meeting.

If the relations between the US and Russia could get any worse, Obama announcement that he is going to push gay rights at the G-20 meeting this week will not make them better.  One would think that this is not the time to make demands of the former Soviet Union when we will need them to help solve the Syrian and Iranian issues which are far more important than an internal social topic.

However, that does not seem to be the way that our President thinks. He seems to want to have the world ostracize us while he goes around the world pushing his own agenda.  This will only mean trouble in the future.

We see it developing on Syria. Neither the British, Arab League or Germany, to name three, are going to support any actions in Syria which leaves us out there by ourselves. As far as we have heard there is only one country willing to support us and that is...France.  (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57600962/syria-strike-partners-around-the-world-few-and-far-between-for-obama/)  However, knowing the French, it will not be long before they also pull back.

In the world today with its many problems, gay rights is not a top drawer issue. It is ironic that Obama plans to make it one with Putin while not discussing it at all with Arab or Muslim countries where being gay is a death sentence. Seems that would be a better starting point than throwing sand in the eye of an already uncooperative partner.

Many have asked if Obama is plain stupid, politically ignorant or a fool. We think it is just the opposite. He knows what he is doing and every step has been choreographed to reduce the stature of the US around the world and to economically devastate the country. He is well on his way.

What will the US look like in another three years? Hard to answer but the trend is such that it will take many years to rebuild what Obama has already destroyed. 

We have seen the gutting of our military, the cratering of the best health system in the world, an economy that refuses to rebound, scandals abounding every other day, our world stature reduced to a point where all but one country will support us in Syria and the list goes on.  Where will it go?  Who knows.  However, we know that it will make our country weaker.

This is the Obama plan. A world with the US as a minor player at best, a third world economy, fourth rate health care, a destroyed business environment with the highest taxes in the world and the largest government employee base. This is what is coming in the next three years.

Obama's push on Russia is not about Russia, it is about pushing them further away from us. To make them more important and to reduce our importance. If our President, in times of stress, emphasizes a minor (in the scope of the world) topic, it minimizes our value to the world. It is all part of the plan.

Conservative Tom

Obama Plans Gay Rights Push in Russia

Tuesday, 03 Sep 2013 08:57 AM

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With tensions between the United States and Russia already strained to the breaking point, President Barack Obama is preparing to press Russian President Vladimir Putin even more by meeting with Russian gay rights groups and human rights activists during this week's trip to St. Petersburg for the G-20 summit.

According to BuzzFeed, rights groups, including Coming Out, a St. Petersburg-based LGBT group, have been invited to meet with Obama on Thursday.

Human rights activists Lev Ponomarev and Lyudmila Alexeyeva, and legal aid non-governmental organization director Pavel Chikov have also been invited.

BuzzFeed also reported that the LGBT Network was also invited to the meeting at the St. Petersburg Crowne Plaza Hotel, along with Golos, a Russian election monitoring group that had received U.S. aid but was forced to disband earlier this summer under a new Russian "foreign agents" law.

The meetings are scheduled during a trip that has already been billed as highly controversial, given the two nations' opposite positions on Syria and Putin's recent decision to allow former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden to remain in Russia for at least a year, despite U.S. efforts to take him into custody for leaking top secret information on NSA data collection programs.

Obama and Putin had been scheduled to hold a one-on-one meeting during the G-20 summit, but Obama canceled that meeting after Snowden was granted temporary asylum in Russia.

The meeting with the human rights groups is not the first time President Obama has met with Russian opposition activists. He last met with non-governmental organizations representing various groups in 2009. But Thursday's meeting comes as the Russian government is cracking down on human rights groups, which it has accused of being in the pay of the U.S. government, BuzzFeed reports.

It also comes in the wake of Russia passing a new anti-LGBT law, which prohibits the promotion or display of "untraditional sexual relations."

When Obama was asked about the law during an appearance last month on the NBC's "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno, he replied that he has "no patience for countries that try to treat gays or lesbians or transgender persons in ways that intimidate them or are harmful to them."



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Like Most Things--Obama Gets Putin Summit Decision Wrong

Canceling the Putin summit was a mistake

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By LEON ARON | 8/7/13 12:38 PM EDT Updated: 8/7/13 2:53 PM EDT

So the rumors are true: The White House is canceling a summit with Vladimir Putin on the margins of the upcoming G-20 heads of state meeting slated for September.

This is a mistake.

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Of the three options available to him, President Barack Obama chose the middle one. And while seemingly a step in the right direction, it gets him the least bang for his buck.

One option was not to attend the G-20 session. The message would have been stark and unmistakable: Russia hosting the group’s summit after a year and a half of a relentless and merciless assault on civil society and nonviolent political opposition following Putin’s election in March 2012 is unacceptable to the world’s leading industrial democracy.

On the opposite end of the tactical spectrum was the option of having a summit with Putin in order to underscore the differences, starting with the body language — remember Obama’s first meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu? — and ending up with a press conference at which Obama could have hinted at the substance of his so-called frank talk with Putin and criticized Russia’s human rights record in front of the world. And don’t underestimate the effect of an American president finally telling the Russian autocrat face to face what he thinks of his crackdown.

Both of these options would have served an immediate political, rather than purely symbolic, purpose. As it is for most authoritarians in the Third World or in emerging markets, Putin’s anti-Americanism is often less about policy issues — he has all but begged the United States not to leave Afghanistan — than it is about boosting his domestic popularity, which is steadily sagging under the weight of economic slowdown, rising prices for staples and utilities, widespread dissatisfaction with housing availability, steadily deteriorating health care and education and, of course, the ubiquitous, near-paralyzing corruption.

Yet Putin’s game is not that simple. No matter what the Kremlin’s propaganda blares about before the meeting, hosting a meeting attended by a U.S. president is a key domestic and foreign legitimizing device. It says to the Russian people: No matter what we do domestically, the regime is still respected enough by the only country that matters to us. The state-owned television channels where most Russians get their news are not going to delve into diplomatic intricacies. Here’s Obama attending the G-20 meeting, and here’s its host, Putin, smiling — and getting smiled at in return. All’s fine then.

Thus the White House’s generally correct message — Russian domestic behavior is now not without costs for U.S.-Russian relations — is likely to be wasted on the Russian people and the world audience alike. Better not go to Russia at all or go and let the Russians and world hear from Obama, rather than Jay Carney, what America thinks, denying Putin the political boost he so avidly seeks.

Leon Aron is director of Russian studies at the American Enterprise Institute and author of the forthcoming “Roads to the Temple: Truth, Memory, Ideas, and Ideals in the Making of the Russian Revolution, 1987-1991.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/canceling-the-putin-summit-was-a-mistake-95297.html#ixzz2bJzNzazO