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This is really due to the increasing tension between the two super powers. Russia has been on the loose, and Obama has done little to challenge them to try and

This is really due to the increasing tension between the two super powers. Russia has been on the loose, and Obama has done little to challenge them to try and reign them in. I would suspect this is why they get blamed for everything - regardless of the evidence. It's very "cold war era" feeling to me when both sides would blame each other for the smallest thing. Lots of increasing geopolitical drama and it probably won't end anytime soon.

akhilcacharya 10y ago
> Obama has done little to challenge them to try and reign them in. Our sanctions regime crashed their economy (or at minimum, exacerbated their long running problems). It's difficult to say "little to challenge them".
- saynsedit 10y ago
  I wasn't aware their economy had crashed. Could you provide a source?
  - ethanbond 10y ago
    http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=RUB&to=USD&view=5Y http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=RUB&to=USD&view=5Y First the illegal annexation of Crimea was "complicated," and now the Russian economy isn't in a freefall? Where are you getting your news?
    - saynsedit 10y ago
      That's not evidence of a Russian-specific crash. All markets across the globe had a correction in January 2016. According to your chart, Russia has apparently bounced back, just like the rest of the world. This is the DJIA: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI?p=%5EDJI https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI?p=%5EDJI Do you have a more specific source?
      - dntrkv 10y ago
        I think his chart is using the wrong date range. Here is a better one: https://encrypted.google.com/finance/chart?espv=2&q=CURRENCY:RUBUSD&tkr=1&p=5Y&chst=vkc&chs=269x94&chsc=2&ei=BlvEV_XTBYGUjwPvpqHQBQ https://encrypted.google.com/finance/chart?espv=2&q=CURRENCY...
        saynsedit 10y ago
        Thanks!
mark_l_watson 10y ago
As a US taxpayer, this saber rattling towards Russia makes me unhappy. Russia has 3 foreign military bases. We have something like 600? We have announced plans to spend a trillion dollars on more nuclear weapons, and we are placing a few of them near Russia's borders - as far as I know they are not placing weapons along our borders! Who profits from this? So obvious that I won't even name the usual suspects.
- linkregister 10y ago
  > We have announced plans to spend a trillion dollars on more nuclear weapons The U.S. spends a trillion dollars on nuclear weapons per 20 years. [1] I agree that disarmament is a credible and the optimum mechanism for reducing risk of the use of nuclear weapons in war and in testing. I think that using hyperbole discredits earnest efforts to this aim. The broadside against secret profiteers ("the usual suspects"?) compounds this. [1] http://www.icanw.org/the-facts/catastrophic-harm/a-diversion-of-public-resources/ http://www.icanw.org/the-facts/catastrophic-harm/a-diversion...

akhilcacharya 10y ago

> Obama has done little to challenge them to try and reign them in. Our sanctions regime crashed their economy (or at minimum, exacerbated their long running problems). It's difficult to say "little to challenge them".

saynsedit 10y ago
I wasn't aware their economy had crashed. Could you provide a source?
- ethanbond 10y ago
  http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=RUB&to=USD&view=5Y http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=RUB&to=USD&view=5Y First the illegal annexation of Crimea was "complicated," and now the Russian economy isn't in a freefall? Where are you getting your news?
  - saynsedit 10y ago
    That's not evidence of a Russian-specific crash. All markets across the globe had a correction in January 2016. According to your chart, Russia has apparently bounced back, just like the rest of the world. This is the DJIA: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI?p=%5EDJI https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI?p=%5EDJI Do you have a more specific source?
    - dntrkv 10y ago
      I think his chart is using the wrong date range. Here is a better one: https://encrypted.google.com/finance/chart?espv=2&q=CURRENCY:RUBUSD&tkr=1&p=5Y&chst=vkc&chs=269x94&chsc=2&ei=BlvEV_XTBYGUjwPvpqHQBQ https://encrypted.google.com/finance/chart?espv=2&q=CURRENCY...
      - saynsedit 10y ago
        Thanks!

mark_l_watson 10y ago

As a US taxpayer, this saber rattling towards Russia makes me unhappy. Russia has 3 foreign military bases. We have something like 600? We have announced plans to spend a trillion dollars on more nuclear weapons, and we are placing a few of them near Russia's borders - as far as I know they are not placing weapons along our borders! Who profits from this? So obvious that I won't even name the usual suspects.

linkregister 10y ago
> We have announced plans to spend a trillion dollars on more nuclear weapons The U.S. spends a trillion dollars on nuclear weapons per 20 years. [1] I agree that disarmament is a credible and the optimum mechanism for reducing risk of the use of nuclear weapons in war and in testing. I think that using hyperbole discredits earnest efforts to this aim. The broadside against secret profiteers ("the usual suspects"?) compounds this. [1] http://www.icanw.org/the-facts/catastrophic-harm/a-diversion-of-public-resources/ http://www.icanw.org/the-facts/catastrophic-harm/a-diversion...