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==Obama regime==
==Obama regime==
{{See also|Obama war crimes}}
{{See also|Obama war crimes}}
===Russia Reset===
:{{Main article|Uranium One bribery scandal}}
President [[Barack Obama]] and Secretary of State [[Hillary Clinton]] cozied up to Putin, charging the Bush administration was intent on reigniting the [[Cold War]]. Michael McFaul was the architect of the Obama/Clinton “Russian Reset”, that eventually led McFaul to becoming the Ambassador to Russia.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/world/europe/29envoy.html</ref> However once the Rosatom-Uranium One deal was completed and the [[Clinton Foundation]] pocketed millions of dollars from Putin cronies in donations and speaking fees, relations began to sour as the Obama administration could no longer ignore geopolitical realities. Putin had protested the Obama administration's illegal drone strikes, and the administration placed sanctions on Russian leaders ostensibly in retaliation for the Crimean referendum.<ref name="youtu.be">https://youtu.be/I-9aD45qxbE</ref>
===Ambassador to Russia===
Michael McFaul immediately caused quite a bit of controversy while in Russia as he indulged with various anti-Putin operatives. McFaul, the U.S. ambassador in Moscow from 2012-2014, was accused by Russian state television of seeking to orchestrate the overthrow of President [[Vladimir Putin]] after hosting opposition activists and [[Kremlin]] critics at the embassy in his second day on the job.<ref>http://www.politico.eu/article/tim-barrow-invisible-ambassador-russia-eu-diplomacy-brexit/</ref><ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/29/michael-mcfaul-twitter-attack-russia</ref>
On the heels of the 2011 [[WikiLeaks]] [[State Department]] Cables release, McFaul was kicked out of Russia:
{{quotebox|''(C) On January 14, National Security Council Senior Director for Russia Michael McFaul met with Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov of the Solidarity Movement, Grigoriy Bovt of the political party Right Cause, and Vladimir Ryzhkov, former head of the now defunct Russia’s Republican Party and professor at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics. All four leaders view Barack Obama as a highly pragmatic president focused on external cooperation with Russia, but supposedly not willing to pressure the Russian government for greater political freedom. President Medvedev is not seen as a viable alternative to Prime Minister Putin, who they believe will likely retake the Presidency in 2012. This, according to them, will ensure that a corrupt and unresponsive government continues to run Russia. They agreed that the aim of the political opposition over the next two years should be to prevent the return of Putin to the presidency. According to them, however, given Putin’s control over society only an emergency situation could bring about his fall from grace.
''[…] McFaul opined that “de-Putinization” must come from within Russia, from a focus on civil education to broaden demands within society for increased freedom. Though the President may not be as vocal about his support for civil society within Russia as opposition members in Russia might prefer, McFaul made clear to this group, all of whom he has known throughout his career, that the President fully supports democratic reform in Russia. All agreed that dramatic change in the Russian political landscape would not take place in the near future.
''5. [[National Security Council]] Senior Director for Russia Michael McFaul has cleared on this cable.''<ref>https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/10MOSCOW305_a.html</ref> }}
It should also be noted that Ambassador McFaul’s friend, [[Natalia Veselnitskaya]], was initially denied an entry visa into the United States in 2016 and appealed her situation to the U.S. District Court of New York. She was granted a parole letter allowing her to enter the United States on behalf of a client.
==See also==
==See also==