Obama’s Fairy Tales

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The president – of a country that systematically and continuously disrespects the right of nations to chart their own path, and a country that subordinates and punishes anyone who won’t submit to the American world view – is talking nonsense, and he believes that everyone will swallow it.

Obama’s Fairy Tales
Haló noviny, Czech Republic
By Monika Hoření
Translated By Andrew Souter
2 August 2014
Edited by Helaine Schweitzer

The other day I heard a statement by U.S. President Barack Obama, in which he alleged that the sanctions, which the U.S. government and its lackeys in Europe and elsewhere – including, of course, the Czech Republic – are devising with growing aggression and stubbornness, do not constitute a new Cold War. Instead, they are “a very specific issue related to Russia’s unwillingness to recognize that Ukraine can chart its own path,” he said. I heard Obama say this during a radio broadcast.

You might be inclined to laugh at this until your sides split, but although I occasionally contribute to this paper’s comics section, this statement by Mr. Obama really doesn’t belong there. The president – of a country that systematically and continuously disrespects the right of nations to chart their own path, and a country that subordinates and punishes anyone who won’t submit to the American world view – is talking nonsense, and he believes that everyone will swallow it.

Does the American administration respect the path that the Cubans chose for themselves? Cuba’s freedom is a clear example of something that Uncle Sam’s own policy won’t allow, as the decades-long embargo against Cuba demonstrates. And do America’s hawks respect the right of Latin American people to choose their own path toward development? What hurdles were placed in Hugo Chávez’s way, and how many national coups – think of Chile – did the United States actually organize – not only in this region – to stop a path from being charted according to popular will?

Similarly, in the case of Ukraine, the U.S. failed to respect the free choice Ukrainians made during their elections. When the existing president fell out of favor, the U.S. government invested $5 million in an effort to manipulate a regime change in Ukraine.

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