Far from being a meeting of the world's most powerful leaders, the G20 summit in St Petersburg is taking on the appearance of a juvenile parlour game in which you have to guess which leaders are not talking to each other.
Topping the list is Barack Obama, who is in a huff with Russian President Vladimir Putin for granting political asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Despite the urgency of the crisis over Syria, where the Russians and Americans badly need to patch up their differences over how to deal with the Assad regime, Mr Obama has cancelled his scheduled bilateral talks with Mr Putin to show his displeasure over the Snowden case.
The touchy Mr Obama has also cancelled a meeting with our own David Cameron after the Prime Minister last week failed to win parliamentary approval for Britain to join in whatever military action the Americans are planning against Syria after the Assad regime was accused of using chemical weapons against its own citizens.
Instead the U.S. president is entertaining French President Francois Hollande, who suddenly finds himself in the unexpected position of being elevated from his former status as the leader of a country of cheese-eating surrender monkeys to Washington's closest-ever buddy. Full story...
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Topping the list is Barack Obama, who is in a huff with Russian President Vladimir Putin for granting political asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Despite the urgency of the crisis over Syria, where the Russians and Americans badly need to patch up their differences over how to deal with the Assad regime, Mr Obama has cancelled his scheduled bilateral talks with Mr Putin to show his displeasure over the Snowden case.
The touchy Mr Obama has also cancelled a meeting with our own David Cameron after the Prime Minister last week failed to win parliamentary approval for Britain to join in whatever military action the Americans are planning against Syria after the Assad regime was accused of using chemical weapons against its own citizens.
Instead the U.S. president is entertaining French President Francois Hollande, who suddenly finds himself in the unexpected position of being elevated from his former status as the leader of a country of cheese-eating surrender monkeys to Washington's closest-ever buddy. Full story...
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