30 juillet 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00ab…That hefty slice of the international community, the silent majority, also would have a few things to know from Obama. To begin with, how can he arrogate to himself the prerogative to interpret international law whichever way it suits him at any given point? How does he explain the US’ aggression against Iraq and Libya resulting in the destruction of these countries or, its blatant interference in Syria? Who is really responsible for triggering the turmoil in Ukraine late last year?<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAlas, Obama doesn’t realise he is scoring a self-goal and undercutting the credibility of US policies and that it is having a strange effect.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbTake, for instance, the alluring rhetoric by Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday, here, hoping to set the right tone for his impending visit to Delhi two days later. But it fell flat on the Indian ears. In fact, the foreign ministry spokesman in Delhi made it a point on Wednesday to confirm that the Indian minister is expected to take up with Kerry the stunning disclosures by the ex-CIA employee Edward Snowden regarding the NSA’s snooping activities in India. He said, You are also aware that there is considerable disquiet in India about the authorizations provided to the American agencies in terms of contravening the privacy of individuals, entities and the Government of India. So, obviously if there is considerable disquiet, these issues are likely to figure without me getting into a detailed elaboration of what.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe Indian newspapers have generally portrayed Kerry’s mission as one of crass Philistine instincts aimed at selling more weapons to India and at seeing how to remove the impediments for export of American nuclear reactors to the Indian market. Kerry has been made to look like a sweaty salesman in an Arthur Miller play. Why do such things happen? India was a country that fell over heels in love with Obama’s predecessor George W. Bush. But somehow, somewhere, an impression has formed in the Indian consciousness which is now difficult to erase that Obama is a cynic and a self-centred opportunist who is singularly devoid of any rooted convictions, and therefore he’s highly susceptible to flip-flops.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThis is where the latest twist to his Russia policies will hurt US interests. Suffice to say, India won’t even touch with a barge pole the US’ rebalance strategy in Asia.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbObama doesn’t get the point that the world is not interested in isolating Russia or in wrecking the Russian economy at a juncture when the world economy is in dire need of growth centres, especially outside the Western world. So, if Europe wants only Russian gas and will ban Russian oil, that’s fine with the fast-growing economies such as India or China or Vietnam. If Europe doesn’t want to purchase Russian weapons anymore, that’s also fine with India, Iraq, Egypt, Venezuela, Brazil, etc which will still have arms deals with Russia. Most certainly, BRICS and Shanghai Cooperation Organization are not going to wither away.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWhat Obama overlooks is that the instruments of the Cold War era have outlived their utility. It’s plain arrogance on his part to delude himself that he’s something of a magical Pied Piper and the rest of the world simply follows him. Why should the world fight America’s war to salvage the pristine status of the US dollar so as to preserve America’s global hegemony despite being a power inexorably in decline?<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe BRICS bank, which is destined to rival the World Bank and the IMF signifying the end of western dominance of the global financial and economic order, to quote, here, a prominent Indian strategic pundit who heads the National Security Council Advisory Board is an immutable fact of life already. India, Brazil and China are not going to be frightened by the West’s restrictions on Russian banks.<\/em>\u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 31 juillet 2014 \u00e0 14H42<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
La fureur anti-BHO de MK Bhadrakumar Nous poursuivons notre suivi des commentaires de l’excellent MK Bhadrakumar, l’ancien et exp\u00e9riment\u00e9 diplomate indien, pass\u00e9 effectivement commentateur des relations internationales. On sait que Bhadrakumar cultive (cultivait ?), \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 de ses excellentes analyses sur les pays hors du bloc BAO, une certaine fascination pour les USA, comme grand… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[5474,11035,3106,2645,3378,855,6208,6776,5646,15958],"class_list":["post-75435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breves-de-crise","tag-bhadrakumar","tag-brics","tag-froide","tag-guerre","tag-inde","tag-kerry","tag-obama","tag-romney","tag-sanctions","tag-ukjraine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}