[[File:Targeted sanctions.jpg|right|250px|thumb|''Targetted Sanctions'', from a Moscow art exhibition.]]
In Obama's New Cold War, the parties swapped ideologies. Now the West was fighting for [[multiculturalism]], forced [[collectivization]] and [[socialism]], and the Russia was standing up for the right of self-determination of peoples and in defense of [[Christian]] values.
Obama criticized president of [[Russia]], [[Vladimir Putin]] for carrying out a referendum for basewd on the right of self determination by the people of [[Crimea]].<ref>[http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-calls-rethinking-crimea-vote Obama calls for a 'rethinking' on Crimea vote]. [[Cybercast News Service]]</ref>
President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton initially cozied up to Putin, charging the Bush administration was intent on re-igniting the [[Cold War]]. 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 administrations illegal drone strikes, and the administration placed sanctions on Russian leaders ostensibly in retaliation for the Crimean referendum.<ref name="youtu.be"/>