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  Kerry visits Russia, will meet with Putin

  It will be Kerry's first meeting with Putin in two years.

  By Ed Adamczyk   |   May 12, 2015 at 10:20 AM

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  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on May 12, 2015 in Sochi, Russia. Kerry traveled to Russia Tuesday with plans to discuss Ukraine, Yemen, Iraq and Syria with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
  
  SOCHI , Russia, May 12 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Russia Tuesday with plans to discuss Ukraine, Yemen, Iraq and Syria with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kerry met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the city of Sochi, and will talk with Putin later in the day. Kerry will be the most senior U.S. official to deal with Putin face-to-face since Kerry's meeting with him in Moscow two years ago at the beginning of the Ukraine conflict.
  "The trip is part of our ongoing effort to maintain direct lines of communication with senior Russian officials and to ensure U.S. views are clearly conveyed," a State Dept. statement said.
  The agenda for the meeting is expected to be wide-ranging but will not include current Western economic sanctions against Russia.
  "Bilateral relations first, and only then all the hot spots," said Dmitry Peskov, Putin's spokesman.
  Kerry and Lavrov began their meeting by laying a ceremonial wreath at a local World War II memorial.
  On Monday the Russian Foreign Ministry released a statement critical of the United States for attempting to isolate Russia. It blamed the White House for the Ukraine crisis, suggested the U.S. "political climate" was responsible for the coldness of relations between Russia and the United States and said NATO forces were moving too closely to Russia in scheduling military exercise near Russia's western border.
  Kerry will later travel to Antalya, Turkey, for a NATO foreign ministers' meeting Wednesday.
  
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Kerry visits Russia, will meet with Putin

Russia is playing this as a capitulation by the U.S., especially because of Kerry laying a wreath a the tomb of the unknown Russian Soldier and all that in memory of World War II.

I think the advantage Putin has is he is running a dictatorship which is run a little like a Mafia whereas the U.S. is very indecisive about it's role in the world at present. Most of this indecisiveness is Congress because it is still a "Do nothing Congress". So, in some ways we are a people without a decisive government. So, even though we are much more wealthy in every way than Russia right now, they are much more decisive and we don't presently have the will to be decisive for a variety of reasons (mostly financial).

My thought is this: "Will it take another Pearl Harbor to wake up the U.S.?"

 

And if we are not more decisive will we survive as a nation? And Will the free world survive if America isn't more decisive in making decisions and backing up what we say with military might?

I don't know the answer to either of these questions. Hopefully we all will at some point in the near or far future.

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