Complex Contemporary Affairs Implore the inept to Stand Down

Step Aside or Sit Quietly, Listen, and Learn

U.S. leadership and followers are dangerously inept, obliviously inattentive

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hile U.S. officials and their followers distract themselves with sex talk and brutes and brutettes play at positions far above their competence, intellect, ethics, and moral sensibility, world leaders and other internationals scratch their heads at the spectacle. The image is a United States that plays the fool—a violent and dangerous fool nuclear-armed to the hilt.  Seeing the dangerously delusional insistent on the game of global domination, one learned, caring veteran diplomat issues a warning.

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ikhail Bogdanov is a veteran and learned diplomat by experience and training.

Russian diplomat Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov has served in numerous diplomatic positions: Soviet ambassador to South Yemen (1974-1977), to Lebanon (1977-1980), to Syria (1983-1989; 1991-1994), to Israel (1997-2002), and to Egypt and concurrently Representative to the Arab League (2005-2011). In the years 2002-2005, Bogdanov was also director of the Middle East and North African Ministry of Foreign Affairs Department. Since June 2011, he has held the position of Deputy Foreign Minister; since January 2012, Special Presidential Representative for the Middle East, and since October 2014, Special Presidential Representative for the Middle East and Africa.

Mikhail Bogdanov is recipient of “The Order of Friendship” and “The Order of Honour.” The former, extending from the Soviet era (amended by presidential decrees through the current era), is “a state decoration of the Russian Federation” that rewards “foreign nationals whose work, deeds and efforts have been aimed at the betterment of relations with the Russian Federation and its people.” The latter is a presidential decreed state order of the Russian Federation recognizing “high achievements in government, economic, scientific, socio-cultural, public, sport and charitable activities.” Bogdanov’s academic studies include an earned degree from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO).

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he diplomat’s warning

“It looks like Washington has unequivocally opted for the language of ultimatums even in relations with its closest partners.”

The United States’ drive for world domination undermines the fundamental principles of settling conflicts in the Middle East.

“The vicious practice of intervention in the internal affairs, the use of force and wide use of unilateral economic restrictions— all of this breeds mutual distrust, worsens the risk of spontaneous conflicts and undermines the fundamental principles of Middle East settlement.”

The list of world problems is long with “no signs” of “getting shorter.” Several major conflicts remain unsettled in the Middle East— Civil wars in Syria and Yemen, terrorist groups staging regular terrorist attacks in Iraq, a new spiral of tensions in the Palestinian-Israeli settlement, and the US withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (the Iran Nuclear Deal).

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all to talking diplomacy from the Senior Russian Diplomat

“We call on the United States to remember diplomatic culture and start following the universal rules of conduct on the international stage, enshrined in the United Nations Charter.”

“We, in turn, will continue consistent efforts to increase healthy trends in global affairs.”

While taking our interests into account, “We are always open for honest dialogue and mutually beneficial cooperation with everyone (who is) willing to cooperate and does not seek to make bilateral relations hostage to the short-term political situation.”

Sources

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bogdanov_(diplomat)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Friendship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Honour_(Russia)

TASS “Moscow calls on Washington to hark back to diplomatic culture, Russian Special Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and Africa, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said, addressing the Dialogue of Civilizations Public Forum. RODOS /Greece/, October 5, 2018 http://tass.com/politics/1024616

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