Posted on 04/20/2015 10:23:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Russian president stunned Barack Obama when he proposed Steven Seagal as an intermediary between Washington and Moscow. Max Seddon and Rosie Gray tell the extraordinary story of the faded action star’s dalliances with the Kremlin.
Vladimir Putin knew his relationship with the United States was nearing breaking point when he met Barack Obama in Lough Erne, a picturesque lakeside golf resort in Northern Ireland, on the sidelines of the G-8 summit in June 2013.
The Russian and U.S. presidents had never gotten along. Putin spent their first meeting on the porch of his residence in Novo-Ogarevo, outside Moscow, in 2009 berating Obama for two decades of Washington’s perceived slights against Russia as they drank tea from a samovar. Obama could barely get a word in for two hours. They didn’t meet for years afterward.
Then, after Putin’s presidential place-warmer Dmitry Medvedev made way for him to rule again in 2012, their conversations grew even colder. The Lough Erne meeting was their worst yet. Putin rebuffed Obama’s attempts to make him drop his support for Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and said he would continue arms supplies to the regime, despite a death toll already in the tens of thousands.
Suddenly, Putin proposed a bold new idea: make Steven Seagal an honorary consul of Russia in California and Arizona, and thus a potential intermediary between the White House and the Kremlin.
Seagal, the martial artist turned washed-up action hero, was just the man to pull U.S.–Russia relations back from the brink, Putin said...
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Hmm.
Think about new world order (see my posting history).
Check out Segal’s 1991 film debut:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Above_the_Law_%28film%29
Under Putin, Obama politics has become a carefully stage-managed TV show where spectacle takes the place of substance.
May be a trait of both but surely fits Zer0.
Why not? he couldn’t do worse than Hillary’s reset button.
Right you are! Steven's ride along and promotion to deputy by Jefferson Parish makes him more qualified. LOL, Thanks, Light Brigade
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