July 4 Message From Putin To Obama: Let's Have Better Ties

[Purveyor]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday in a July Fourth message to President Barack Obama that he hopes ties between the two countries will get back on track.

Relations between Moscow and Washington hit a post-Cold War low in 2014, when Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula and threw its weight behind separatists in eastern Ukraine. The Kremlin, however, has recently sought rapprochement with the United States.

In the Independence Day message released by the Kremlin, Putin recalled the history of Russia-U.S. ties, saying that at one time the two countries were able to solve "the most difficult international problems to the benefit of both our nations and all humankind." Putin expressed hope that this experience will help the two countries get back to working together.

Elsewhere in Moscow, a youth wing of the ruling United Russia party staged an impromptu exhibit on a central square to condemn U.S. military involvement in other countries. The Young Guard activists put up easels with the portraits and quotes of former world leaders that the activists claim were toppled by the United States, like Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych or Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi.

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[Socal31]

1. This needs to happen for the sake of humanity.

There are enough grievances and wants by both sides that negotiating a stand-down from the current WW3 trajectory is possible.

[forest444]

2. Well said.

Just don't let a NATO troll hear you.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. 2 possibilities

These overtures may be due to Obama leaving office after this year, although it's pretty much too little too late to not burn a bridge for his successor -OR- more likely due to this - Europe and US continue anti-Russian sanctions which apparently became official this past Friday July 1st.

[DemMomma4Sanders]

14. Sanctions are a form of warfare, that said Russia has yet to attack any

Nation that did not ask for its help.

Hell Crimea voted overwhelmingly to unify with Russia while svoboda called for the genocide of all Russian speaking Ukranians.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. And this "empire-building" from all sides

in search of resources from someone else's home over the past millennia, continues. It's the same old same old (just like Ethiopia and Eritrea and other places).

[DemMomma4Sanders]

17. So true. Libya, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Venezuela, Afghanistan..........

The west is beggining to look, Russia included, like a collective Hitler.

Absolutely no thought or consideration to the populations that inhabit the lands corporations must decimate to control resource sales.

[madokie]

4. I'm all for any gestures for peace no matter where they come from or who makes them

[Odin2005]

5. Then Putin needs to quit trying to conquer his neighbors...

...And repudiate all his Neo-Reactionary "Eurasianist" advisors.

[Lucky Luciano]

6. Which one do people like best?

http://www.bergdorfgoodman.com/brioni-silk-tie-th.html

http://www.bergdorfgoodman.com/Brioni-Textured-Dot-Print-Silk-Tie/prod115790260/p.prod?

[left-of-center2012]

10. Maybe Putin is promoting Trump ties?

[Ace Rothstein]

12. Trump responded saying he has the best ties.

[wordpix]

18. the best Mexico and China can make for him

[MohRokTah]

7. Fuck Putin.

Russia, get rid of that asshole or fuck better ties.

[politicaljunkie41910]

8. Obama isn't stupid. The former head of the KGB has proven that he can't be trusted.

Good thing Obama is secure in his person, and isn't fooled by insincere attempts at flattery like Trump is.

[Adrahil]

9. I'm all for that...

Hlow 'bout you stop invadinng your neighbors, Vlad, and homor your agreements to respect their territprial integrity?

[trof]

11. Yeah, we can buy them from Trump.

[Yupster]

13. Smart move by Putin

Ask for better ties as Obama is leaving office.

Costs nothing, changes nothing and he gets good press.

[uhnope]

16. re-reset button? sounds like a lame stunt for domestic consumption

He smashed the reset button and now whines about better ties?

Free the Crimea & get out of Ukraine all together. Stop bombing hospitals & refugee camps in Syria. Stop funding fascist parties in Europe.