Those troublesome 1980s have reared their head again in a diplomatic storm in a teacup over Gibraltar.
“The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back.” So said Barack Obama to Mitt Romney during the 2012 race for the US presidency when Romney suggested that Russia was America’s “number-one geopolitical foe”. Like many of Obama’s putdowns, such as his memorable roasting of Donald Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, it was delivered deftly but sounds more hollow with the passage of time. Today, after Russia’s incursion into Crimea, intervention in Syria, sabre-rattling across Nato’s …read more
Source: New Statesman
