Obama Flashback: ‘The Reset Button Has Worked’

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Jonah Goldberg:

From ThinkProgress in 2009:

A year ago, there was a rising fear that the US and Russia were on the verge of a new Cold War. Today the relationship seems to have gone 180. The US and Russia are now on the verge of signing a new nuclear disarmament agreement and look increasingly in sync on Iran. Yesterday, Obama met directly with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific summit in Singapore where both leaders said negotiations on a new START agreement were close to completion. Medvedev also expressed his displeasure with Iran, giving another indication that Russia may back Obama should the Iranians reject the nuclear deal on the table. Following the meeting and Medvedev pronouncements, Obama concluded that “the reset button has worked.

The turnaround in US-Russian relations is a huge foreign policy accomplishment for President. In the final years of the Bush administration US-Russian relations deteriorated to the point where many in the Bush administration were advocating an outwardly confrontational approach.

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While Obama/Kerry and Hillary before him were calling it a ”reset button,” the Arabs and Rusians were calling it what it really was: a hudna.
Hudna is an Arabic term meaning ”agreeing to a temporary pause in hostilities so WE can re-arm.”

Reportedly, “reset” was misspelled. Apparently, it was some Russian word meaning “do whatever you like, we are afraid to play our part of a Super Power. You take over.”

If the purpose of Obama’s “Reset Button” was to shove us back into the “Cold War” and set up the world for a completely flipped outcome, then it is “working.”