Once again, the Russian newspaper Gazeta, which is partly owned by Mikhail Gorbachev, says what few other Russian media outlets will: that Russia today is little match for the power of the United States.
This cold-eyed assessment by Gazeta, published Tuesday morning, says in part:
“Russian-American relations, even without the anti-American hysteria that was consciously cultivated by the Russian government throughout the 2000s – is one of unequal powers not especially interested in one another. Although on the eve of his visit, Barack Obama was politically correctly in promising to build a relationship with Russia an equal footing in terms of influence on global processes, America doesn’t recognize Russia as an equal. For the United States, it is far more important to build a relationship with China, since it is a country that has far more economic and political potential and hence a claim on the role of global superpower. Russia exceeds China in terms of its foreign policy ambitions, but its actual capacity to influence the global agenda is greatly exaggerated by the Russian government. … Russia should be aware that in the prevailing world order, it doesn’t have the objective capacity to be an equal partner of the United States – and the United States is hardly able or willing to establish it as such in the future.”
EDITORIAL
Translated By Yekaterina Blinova
July 7, 2009
Russia – Gazeta – Original Article (Russian)
The nearly three days that the most popular political leader in the world has been spending in Moscow are practically a continuous theater of facial expressions and gestures – a game of political symbols. The program includes meetings with the president of Russia and the opposition – parliamentary as well as non-parliamentary (but brought together, in order to dilute, so to say, Nemtsov with Zyuganov [two leaders on the extreme left and right]) But traditionally, all U.S. presidents meet with the government and opposition in the course of such visits. Although it must be said that George Bush didn’t do so while in Russia, which pleased his “friend” Vladimir to no end.
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