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A senior Democratic senator said on Sunday that the U.S.-Russia relationship had become "poisonous" and urged President Barack Obama to consider moving next month's Group of 20 summit away from the Russian city of St. Petersburg.
Charles Schumer, the U.S. Senate's third ranking Democrat and a close Obama ally, accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of trying to antagonize the United States by granting American fugitive Edward Snowden asylum for one year.
"President Putin is behaving like a schoolyard bully," Schumer said on the CBS television talk show "Face the Nation." "In my experience, I've learned unless you stand up to that bully, they ask for more and more and more."
He said Obama should cancel plans to meet Putin in Moscow for a bilateral summit next month that was expected take place during the U.S. president's trip to Russia for the G20 gathering.
Schumer said he also would call on Obama to "urge our allies, if it were possible," to try to move the G20 summit from St. Petersburg to another country.
http://news.yahoo.com/senior-u-senator-says-putin-acting-schoolyard-bully-165049662.html
malaise
(268,930 posts)The world's greatest bully is his own country.
atreides1
(16,072 posts)How many criminals, murderers, spies and other less then savory characters has the US given sanctuary and asylum to!
And I'm not referring to the former Bush administration...
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)Big mouths all around.
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William769
(55,145 posts)But not for the reason you list. And shame on Senator Schumer not not listing all the reasons he is a 'schoolyard bully'.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)Duh.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Catherina
(35,568 posts)"urging our allies", like we urged our allies to bring down the Bolivian President's plane right?