Obama Deflecting Criticism Calls Russia a Regional Power
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President Barack Obama brushed aside his critics who say he’s been weak in foreign affairs and dismissed Vladimir Putin’s Russia as merely a regional threat as he set the stage for the next moves in the confrontation over Ukraine.
Seeking to assure U.S. allies in Europe as well as voters at home, Obama told a gathering of world leaders in The Hague yesterday that an international coalition is moving to isolate a nation that no longer rates as a superpower.