Foreign journalists on the outcomes of the 70th session of the UN General Assembly write about the superiority of the Russian leader over President Barack Obama.
Speeches of Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama from the rostrum of the UN General Assembly were doomed to comparison. Although Obama spoke for much longer than Putin, the effect of his speech in the Western press assessed is ambiguous, and unflattering reviews were too noticeable.
“Putin took Obama’s thunder and lightning on the world stage”, says American journalist Stephen Collinson CNN.
According to him, the Russian President turns the world away from the path of global dominance of the United States and seeks to wrest from the hands of Washington’s control over the actions of the international coalition in Syria. Actually, Obama’s speech was more like a justification for the actions of the Pentagon, in the end, Putin just pushed the U.S. President to back by his performance at the UN, says Collinson.
Quotes from the speech of Vladimir Putin to the journalists seemed so bright that are often cited and not retold in their own words.
“Do you realize what you’ve done?” Putin asked the world leaders, speaking about the situation in North Africa and the Middle East. And everyone knew whom this question was addressed to.
“Surprise, surprise, Russia is once again a world power!” says the expert of Fox News Jonathan Adelman.
“The meeting between Obama and Putin is shocking, demonstrating how rapidly grew the power of Russia over the past few years,” said the expert. According to Eidelman, this is all the more surprising since Russia after the collapse of the USSR left in Eastern Europe a huge part of its population, a large share of production and market, and now has problems because of falling oil demand.
Let Obama and Merkel are pretty practiced in mock of Russian President, “Putin has once again put Western leaders to pillory,” says Adelman. “But European countries have ceased to be great powers, which were before the Second World War”.
Ill-concealed delight by the actions of the Russian leader was, however, generously sprinkled with accusations of attempts rather to expand his influence than to provide assistance to other countries.
In addition to the successful actions of Russia, there are several reasons why Obama received such bad reviews “from his.” It is his low rating inside the country and steadily approaching the status of “lame duck”. In the U.S., the public is increasingly keen on pre-election race, where the candidates-Republicans relentlessly criticized Obama, who belongs to the Democratic Party. The criticism is especially sharp in the direction of his foreign policy, and many people find these reproaches just.
