<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><head><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><o:OfficeDocumentSettings><o:AllowPNG/><o:PixelsPerInch>96</o:PixelsPerInch></o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490115898669_5768" size="5">JEFFREY TAYLER: Well,
the real starting point would be the relationship between the U.S.
President and President Putin, which had started off as a very good
relationship, if you remember. Especially after September the 11th, when
Putin was the first one to go on air, and express condolences and
express his offer of full support to the United States, in whatever
needed to do, after the attacks. </font><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490115898669_5769"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490115898669_5770"></div><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490115898669_5944" size="5"><b> But especially with
President Obama. President Obama showed an astonishing lack of civility;
in the way he expressed himself about Putin</b>. He expressly called Putin,
said he looks like a bored school boy sitting in the back of a
classroom, who leads a regional country that doesn't produce anything
anybody would want, and so on. </font><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490115898669_5771"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490115898669_5772"></div><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490115898669_5872" size="5">And the relationship was
clearly very hostile, and Russians took that very personally. It was a
deliberate dissing of their leader, and Russians tend to have a default
position in favor always of a strong leader. Their leader being kicked
around, or being perceived as being insulted on the world stage by
Obama, went down very poorly here. </font><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490115898669_5773"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490115898669_5774"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490115898669_6024"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490115898669_5951" size="5"> But the hostility in
the relationship really does go back into specific actions that started
with the Clinton administration expanding NATO, before Putin became
president. But, you could also point to the 2011 intervention in Libya,
in which the United States promised to Russia that it wasn't after
regime change, that it was just going to going to establish a no-fly
zone over Libya. And Gaddafi ended up brutally murdered.</font> </div><div><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490115898669_5953" dir="ltr"><a class="enhancr2_4cd5794c-669d-bf79-9941-807fedef61a9" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490115898669_5980" href="http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=18686">Russia vs. USA: Who is the Threat, Who is the Aggressor? 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