Monday, June 08, 2015

Republican Election Strategy: Blame The Putin "Boogeyman"

Back in 2009, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a US-Russia diplomatic “reset” switch. The gift — a yellow box with a big red button — said “reset” in English on the bottom and “peregruzka” on top. The problem: “peregruzka” doesn’t mean “reset” in Russian, it means “overcharged.” “Opechatka” is Russian for “typo”, Clinton’s adviser later wrote in an e-mail to reporters.

One annexation, one bloody proxy war, innumerable thinly-veiled nuclear threats, and six years later, and the only thing that’s been “reset” in US-Russian relations is the Cold War .... http://www.zerohedge.com