There are those that see Putin as an adversary of Obama. But if both work for and wish the decline of the U.S., are they not working for the same goal? Flexibility…
Via Breitbart:
This week’s historic $400 billion agreement for Russia to provide China with a guaranteed 30-year supply of safe, reliable, affordably priced Russian natural gas comes as the most dramatic illustration yet of just how rapidly the geopolitical landscape of the world is settling into the new post-American era.
While President Obama was lauding hashtag campaigns to free kidnap victims in Nigeria and opining on the fate of an NBA franchise owner, Russia was busy concluding a historic deal that instantly replaces the European Union–its number one market, its number one strategic commodity–with China. It thereby eliminated what remained of Europe’s already-diminishing leverage against Russian aggression, not just in Ukraine, but in Eastern Europe in general. While the two sides have been unwilling to make public many of the terms of the long-sought arrangement, the outlines alone appear sufficiently ominous to Western analysts.