{"id":9949,"date":"2015-07-11T07:37:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T12:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9949"},"modified":"2015-07-11T07:37:10","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T12:37:10","slug":"obamas-deadly-cold-war-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9949","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s Deadly Cold War Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/07\/10\/obamas-deadly-cold-war-legacy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Obama\u2019s Deadly Cold War Legacy<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"entry-meta\"><em><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong>\u00a0President Obama is endangering his legacy by letting neoconservatives still set his foreign policy, including the creation of a new and costly Cold War with Russia that could have been easily avoided and that now risks spinning off into a nuclear showdown, writes Robert Parry.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><span id=\"more-15457\"><\/span>Whatever positive legacy that President Barack Obama might point to \u2013 the first African-American president, the Affordable Care Act, the changed social attitudes on gay rights, etc. \u2013 his ultimate legacy may be defined more by his reckless stewardship guiding the United States into a wholly unnecessary new Cold War.<\/p>\n<p>The costs of this Cold War II will be vast, emptying out what\u2019s left of the U.S. Treasury in a new arms race against Russia, assuming that the new East-West showdown doesn\u2019t precipitate a nuclear war that could end all life on the planet. Already, the United States military has altered its national security policies to treat Russia as the principal foreign threat.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/obama-poroshenko.jpg?55ac53\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12164\" src=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/obama-poroshenko-300x200.jpg?55ac53\" alt=\"President Barack Obama and President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine talk after statements to the press following their bilateral meeting at the Warsaw Marriott Hotel in Warsaw, Poland, June 4, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to talk about a nation that could pose an existential threat to the United States, I\u2019d have to point to Russia,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/10\/us\/general-joseph-dunford-joint-chiefs-confirmation-hearing.html?_r=0\"><u>said<\/u><\/a>\u00a0General Joseph F. Dunford Jr., at Senate hearings on his nomination to be the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. \u201cAnd if you look at their [the Russians\u2019] behavior, it\u2019s nothing short of alarming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dunford also recommended shipping U.S. weapons to the post-coup regime in Ukraine so it can better prosecute its war against ethnic Russian rebels in the east who have resisted the overthrow of elected President Viktor Yanukovych and have been deemed \u201cterrorists\u201d by the U.S.-backed government in Kiev.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama\u2019s Deadly Cold War Legacy Exclusive:\u00a0President Obama is endangering his legacy by letting neoconservatives still set his foreign policy, including the creation of a new and costly Cold War with Russia that could have been easily avoided and that now risks spinning off into a nuclear showdown, writes Robert Parry. 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