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If I were the president I wouldn't go [to Moscow]. There's nothing but downside here. Obama doesn't like aimless diplomatic chitchat. One, he's not going to go to a meeting just to be humiliated; and two, he doesn't want the same dynamic as in Northern Ireland where the two of them clearly didn't have much to talk about. July 19, 2013, Fiona Hill, Wall Street Journal
If I were the president I wouldn't go [to Moscow]. There's nothing but downside here. Obama doesn't like aimless diplomatic chitchat. One, he's not going to go to a meeting just to be humiliated; and two, he doesn't want the same dynamic as in Northern Ireland where the two of them clearly didn't have much to talk about.
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