Thread by @TheLastRefuge2

1) On March 6th 2009 then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton famously used a prop, "a reset button", to announce a new approach toward relationships between the United States and Russia.   Clinton presented the button to her counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

2) In an attempt to break the ice with Lavrov, Clinton handed him a makeshift "reset" button wrapped in a ribbon at the start of their meeting. Laughing, she told the foreign minister that "we want to reset our relationship" and "we will do it together."

Lavrov promised to keep the button on his desk, but pointed out that the Russian word written on it, "peregruzka," meant "overload" -- not "reset."

rferl.org/a/After_Meetin…

3) At the time many people warned the Obama Administration was taking a very naïve position if they collectively thought the Russians would in any way align with U.S. interests.

The reasoning for the caution was simple.

For two decades the general Russian political class had felt "the West" in a general sense, and the U.S. in particular, had been dancing in the end zone about the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Regardless of whether or not the Obama administration wanted to admit there was a resentment in place, it factually existed.

Then something funny happened... The U.S Embassy "cable leak" scandal.

theguardian.com/world/2010/nov…

4) Within the Cables, and directly following Clinton's visit to Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, the Clinton cables showed the USA position.

Russia and its intelligence agencies are using mafia bosses to carry out criminal operations, with one cable reporting that the relationship is so close that the country has become a "virtual mafia state".

The extraordinarily close relationship between Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, and Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, which is causing intense US suspicion. Cables detail allegations of "lavish gifts", lucrative energy contracts and the use by Berlusconi of a "shadowy" Russian-speaking Italiango-between.

Yes, this was the background of the Russia-reset from Hillary Clinton. Duplicity thy name was... eh?

5) After a six-month stint in 2009 of global travel, a generally touchy feely apology tour, with reset buttons and photo-ops, the rest of the 09', 10' year was spent by Hillary Clinton travelling back to the same countries she previously visited and apologizing for the embarrassment within the wiki-leaks cables scandal.

Clinton spent almost all of 2010 going from country to country telling leaders she was sorry for making fun of them behind the scenes - and trying to reassure them the now outed private positions were wrong, and the more appropriate public positions were correct.

Understandably the Russians and everyone else just blew her off. Hillary made Obama foreign policy look stupid. Obama was not pleased.

That's the background for Obama soon thereafter not wanting to follow Clinton into the Libya fiasco.

6) Now keep in mind, this was followed by a completely botched disconnect with Egypt policy where Hillary was requesting regime change and Obama was publicly supporting President Mubarak.

Eventually they both decided to support the Muslim Brotherhood, and Mohammed Morsi, who instituted a devastating process of Sharia Compliant governance, disbanded the courts and judges and opened the jails.

Enter Egyptian General Fattah al-Sisi. Who took control of the situation and reinstituted stability in Egypt. Who did al-Sisi turn to for help?

Vladimir Putin.

Yes, Hillary Clinton destroyed Egyptian peace. al-Sisi restored Egypt peace, and Vladimir Putin stood to protect al-Sisi from the U.S. just in case.

7) So, Putin's reference when Kerry/Obama were stirring up trouble in Ukraine, was the visible result in Libya.

Only now, that "trouble" wasn't over there, it was right next door.

The rest is history.