ERIC ZUESSE—That statement, coming from him, MEANS that, indeed, the 80-year-long Cold War between the U.S. empire and Russia, is now at an end. This is what Barack Obama, the most skillful liar ever to have occupied the U.S. White House, had — in 2012, just before his re-election — privately PROMISED the Russian Government that he would do if re-elected, even while he was already secretly committed to ramping-up U.S.-empire hostility toward and against Russia (by means of the economic sanctions against Russia, which he started in 2012 and increased after his 2014 coup grabbed control over Ukraine and turned it against Russia). Thus began the climax of the 1945-begun Cold War, which has now ended.
The Riyadh meeting between U.S. and Russia was a success.
Is optimism warranted at this point? Can the West be trusted? Tigers don't change their stripes overnight.
