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WWII showed importance of cooperation - Obama
Published: 08 May, 2010, 21:31
Edited: 13 May, 2010, 20:55
TAGS: Anniversary, Military, Russia, Politics, History, USA
The Soviet Union and the US fought together against Nazism. Decades of Cold War were to follow, but US President Barack Obama told political commentator Sergey Brilev that the Soviet role should not be underestimated.
“The May, 9th commemoration in Russia is so important because it reminds us of the extraordinary sacrifices that the then-Soviet Union made and the strength of the alliance between the US and the Russian people. Our current ambassador in Moscow, Ambassador Beyrle, his father briefly fought with the Soviet Army, he was part of US operations there, was captured, escaped to the Soviet Union and ended up fighting with the Soviet Army”, US President Obama told Sergey Brilev.
These days, Mr Obama sees terrorism as the common enemy for Russia and the USA.
“It is a signal whether these activities [terror attacks] are happening in Moscow or they are happening in New York, that countries have to work together to make sure that these terrorists are apprehended, that their networks are destroyed and that their sources of financing dry up”, says President Obama.
Another key issue for cooperation between the countries is nuclear security. Mr Brilev asked Mr Obama about the recently signed START treaty.
“The very fact that Russia and the US signed this treaty means that it eased so much better mutual understanding between Moscow and Washington. And, given the circumstances, it’s worth using this opportunity to go further… trying to convert this mutual understanding into something of substance into such particular areas as European security”, Brilev told RT.
On Sunday, as Russian soldiers march through Red Square in the Victory Day parade, they will be joined by American troops – something which would have been unimaginable just a few years ago.
War Witness: tribute to the victory in the Second World War.
According to Russian Presidential press attaché Natalya Timakova, it is also a symbolic step forward in what has been a year of bridge-building between east and west.
“The two powers with the largest nuclear arsenals have set an example for everybody of how they can quickly find common ground. After Russia and the US signed a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, both Presidents Obama and Medvedev show they are interested in setting a new agenda for our relations, and to continue their co-operation,” she said.
“Among the priority issues, which were backed by the US, is developing business ties and economic modernisation. Just recently, President Obama invited President Medvedev to visit Silicon Valley in the US to see how a knowledge-based economy works there. It is another opportunity for us to continue resetting our relations,” Timakova added.
08.05.2010, 19:20
US and Russia can work together as it was in WWII – US veteran“We were called by our commander who received an important communique announcing the first victory over German Army. He said, ‘The tide has turned,’” recalls John Kapstein, a US veteran, who was then in North Africa. |
10.05.2010, 07:39
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Red Star, Fact: The "slave" labor which you mentioned was the "white" Eastern Europeans who built the USA. Fact: The Civil War was fought due to "State's Rights". Fact: 96.7% of ALL immigration in the last 7 years have come from Africa, South, Central, and Latin America. I would say the "majority" of these immigrants were "light" browned skin, as you say. Ask yourself why? Fact: It is better to be Black in America than it is White!
Sierra Nevada I do not hate the U.S. Hate is toxic disease and I do not wish to get this disease. Please not: my comment was a response to David’s comment. I wanted to respond to his reference to the U.S Civil War. Now, I wanted to show him and the readers of this forum that the U.S Civil War was over the ownership of black slaves and that the U.S was not a friend of eastern Europeans such as the Slavs. Please, see the 1924 the U.S Immigration Restriction Act also known as the John-Reed Act of 1924 [see also the National Origin Act clause of this Act]. The National Origin immigration restriction was predicated on eugenics ideas advanced by Madison Grant and others [see his book The Passing of the Great Race]. The National Origin Act was directed at curtailing immigrant from eastern and southern Europeans as ‘inferior’ to northern Europeans. The National Origin Restriction Clause was used to exclude or delimit immigration of ‘inferior eastern European blood’ because it was thought eastern blood would threaten the “purity” of the Anglo Saxon “superior blood” of the settler class. These are historical facts. Hitler’s two driving ideologies against the Slavs were that of racial superiority of North Europeans over the Slavs and that of Manifest Destiny of the Germans to conquer the Slavs and eradicate them and take away their lands as living spaces for future expansion of Germans. Both ideas were borrowed from Anglo Saxon expansionist and eugenics imperatives. P/S. The U.S economy was built on slave labour. Ironic aspect of this is that today even anti-immigration feelings are running high in the U.S, brown skinned immigrant are being lured with promise of citizenship to fight U.S imperialistic wars.
Just about every time I read another tirade against American blacks in one of the many forums online, I am shocked at the virulence among some Americans toward some of their fellow citizens. This time, my remarks are directed at Sierra Nevada and Joe American, both of whom display nearly universal ignorance of historical events. What "states rights" beyond slavery caused the American Civil War? And the assertion that the USSR "helped" to defeat Nazi Germany is condescending and inaccurate. Without the Red Army, Germany would surely have won the war. Germany was in full retreat after Stalingrad, and pursued by the Red Army all the way back to Berlin. With so much information at hand, it is apparent that some Americans are the most ignorant people on the planet.