McConnell: Obama’s legacy will not be successful with Iran, and the war with Russia – RIA Novosti

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MOSCOW, July 16 – RIA Novosti. It’s likely that a key legacy of Obama will not improve relations with Iran even if Iran and perform fully all its commitments and the deepening cold, potentially even a hot war with Russia, writes the editor of the American edition of The American Conservative, Scott McConnell.

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” In Washington, everyone knows that Obama and his entourage paid to Iran in ten times more attention than in Russia, probably assuming that geopolitical logic will not allow relations with Moscow to get out of control. But they are waiting for a surprise – a bitter irony of this situation is that reaching peace with Iran, the United States may be in a state of war with Russia “, – the analyst believes.

According to experts, Ukrainian politics in Washington turned into an embarrassment – the de facto The United States supports the neo-Nazis and Chechen Islamists fighting at the Russian border, while the obedient media and malleable political class constantly sounding the alarm over the “Russian aggression”. In 2012, Obama himself, together with the whole country laughed at the words of then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney is a “Russian threat”, no one took it seriously. But now it seems as if making some really important steps in domestic policy, Obama has lost foreign policy agenda “hawks” and lobbyists aggressive military-industrial complex.

The explanation may be more complex: it is possible that America needs Russia as an enemy, in order to more clearly aware of their own existence, says editor TAC. In the mid-1980s the Soviet intellectual Georgi Arbatov predicted that the Soviet Union would deprive Washington of the enemy – with the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Americans did not know what to do next. One of the heroes of the famous American writer John Updike even wondered “if there is no Cold War, why be an American.” The well-known American sociologist and political scientist Samuel Huntington back in 1997 stated date and to this day the hypothesis that the Americans need an external enemy in order to overcome the internal decay.

“While Obama and John Kerry’s thoughts were somewhere far, the system of national security of the United States will inevitably move toward confrontation with Russia over the territory, which has no strategic importance for the United States, and this movement were very controversial moral base “- says Scott McConnell.