L’interview de Joe Biden au Wall Street Journal<\/em> du 25 juillet a provoqu\u00e9 quelques vagues du c\u00f4t\u00e9 de Moscou, comme nous le conte le New York Times<\/em> du 26 juillet 2009<\/a>. Cela est notammen venu d’une question faussement candide du principal conseiller de politique ext\u00e9rieure du pr\u00e9sident Medvedev, adress\u00e9e sans doute au pr\u00e9sident Barack Hussein Obama, question pos\u00e9e en r\u00e9ponse \u00e0 une premi\u00e8re question, sur sa r\u00e9action apr\u00e8s l’interview de Biden: Mais, en fait, qui dirige la politique \u00e9trang\u00e8re des Etats-Unis, le pr\u00e9sident ou l’un ou l’autre membre respectable de son \u00e9quipe?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThe Kremlin immediately responded to the<\/em> [Biden’s] comments, made in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, with a demand for a clarification of the administration’s intentions toward Russia, saying essentially that it was receiving a mixed message so soon after President Obama had visited Moscow for the summit meeting.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbCalling the criticism perplexing in light of the diplomatic overtures initiated by the United States and described as pressing the reset button, the chief foreign policy adviser to President Dmitri A. Medvedev told the Interfax news agency, The question is: who is shaping the U.S. foreign policy, the president or respectable members of his team?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe adviser, Sergei Prikhodko, said the atmosphere between the countries had improved since Mr. Obama’s visit early this month. If some members of Obama’s team and government do not like this atmosphere, why don’t they say so? Interfax reported him as saying. If they disagree with the course of their president, we just need to know this.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLa r\u00e9action de la Maison-Blanche n’a pas (encore?) pris une allure formelle, mais a tout de m\u00eame consist\u00e9 en un commentaire du porte-parole, sous forme d’une d\u00e9claration alambiqu\u00e9e. L’essentiel de l’interview de Biden \u00e9tait de dire: la Russie est faible, profitons-en avec habilet\u00e9, mais, de toutes les fa\u00e7ons, elle c\u00e9dera; le commentaire du porte-parole est le suivant:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThe White House did not back away from the vice president’s remarks on Saturday, but attempted to smooth over the frayed relations with Russia. The president and vice president believe Russia will work with us not out of weakness but out of national interest, Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, said in a statement on Saturday night.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe president said in Moscow that the United States seeks a strong, peaceful and prosperous Russia one that will be an even more effective partner in meeting common challenges, including reducing nuclear arsenals, securing vulnerable nuclear materials, contending with nuclear programs in North Korea and Iran, defeating violent extremism and advancing global security and economic growth, Mr. Gibbs said.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tDurant la campagne \u00e9lectorale, Biden avait pr\u00e9dit que le nouveau et jeune pr\u00e9sident des USA, Barack Obama, serait soumis, dans les premiers mois de son mandat, \u00e0 l’une ou l’autre \u00e9preuve en mati\u00e8re de politique ext\u00e9rieure. D’une certaine fa\u00e7on, on le mettrait \u00e0 l’\u00e9preuve, on l’\u00e9prouverait, on tenterait de profiter de son inexp\u00e9rience suppos\u00e9e. On pensa aussit\u00f4t \u00e0 des r\u00e9f\u00e9rences ext\u00e9rieures (Kennedy devant Kroychtchev en avril 1961). Peut-\u00eatre s’est-on tromp\u00e9, peut-\u00eatre Biden songeait-il \u00e0 lui-m\u00eame; peut-\u00eatre Biden est-il lui-m\u00eame l’\u00e9preuve de politique ext\u00e9rieure qui est impos\u00e9e \u00e0 Barak Obama. (L’interview ne serait d’ailleurs pas la premi\u00e8re \u00e9preuve impos\u00e9e par Biden \u00e0 Obama, puisqu’il y a eu r\u00e9cemment l’affaire du feu vert<\/a> donn\u00e9 \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl pour attaquer<\/a> l’Iran.) <\/p>\n<\/p>\n