Obama evading risk of war with Russia
US President Barack Obama’s anti-Moscow calls on G7 are to avoid the risks of war with Russia, says a senior analyst Foreign Policy in Focus.
During a Tuesday phone interview with Press TV, Ian Williams made the remarks while commenting on the US president’s call on the industrial countries to stand up against “Russian aggression” in Ukraine.
“In the great tradition of Western politicians, he wants to be seen to be doing something,” Williams said, undermining Obama’s Monday remarks at the summit in the Bavarian Alps, Germany.
“Asking the G7 is equivalent of referring it to a committee almost,” said the analyst, calling Obama's move an attempt to “satisfy his hawkish critics” in both the Democratic and Republican parties.
“But on the other hand he is not necessarily tying himself to venturistic and belligerent proposals, which risk serious war with Russia.”
The conflict between Russia and the West erupted after Ukraine’s Black Sea peninsula of Crimea voted for reunification with Russia in March last year.
Many have been killed, injured, and displaced after Kiev started crackdown on pro-Russia protesters in the east in April 2014.
The West blames the Kremlin for masterminding the Ukrainian unrest and backing the pro-Russia forces in country’s eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, a charge denied by Moscow.
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