How Obama Is Driving Russia and China Together

The National Interest

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June 24, 2014

How Obama Is Driving Russia and China Together

American bluff and bombast toward Moscow has stoked Russian nationalism, convinced Putin we're weak, and fostered a dangerous realignment.

By Dimitri K. Simes
Dimitri K. Simes is president of the Center for the National Interest and publisher of The National Interest.

PRESIDENT BARACK Obama likes to say that America and the world have progressed beyond the unpleasantness of the nineteenth century and, for that matter, much of the rest of human history. He could not be more wrong. And as a result, he is well on the way to repeating some of history's most dangerous mistakes.