"Russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbours, not out of strength but out of weakness," Obama said after a nuclear security summit in the Netherlands.
"We (the US) have considerable influence on our neighbours. We generally don't need to invade them in order to have a strong cooperative relationship with them," he said. He added that Russia is not the number one US national security threat and that he is more concerned about the possibility of a nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan.
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Ukraine: Obama says Russia 'acting out of weakness' ...
ReplyDeleteUS President Barack Obama has said Russia is acting "not out of strength, but out of weakness" in Ukraine.
He also warned of the possibility of further sanctions against Russia if it encroached further into Ukraine.
Speaking in The Hague, Mr Obama said he was encouraged by the willingness of EU countries to consider sanctions that could possibly hurt them as well............http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26738347
25/3/14