Obama wants Putin to kowtow to US hegemony

The United States is toughening sanctions against Russia in a bid to remove the main stumbling block to its world hegemony, an analyst writes for Press TV.  

“What Washington wants is for Russian President Vladimir] Putin to capitulate and prostrate himself in front of American global hegemony,” Finian Cunningham wrote in a column for the Press TV website.
The political commentator was reacting to the decision by the United States and its European allies to tighten sanctions against Russia for its alleged role in destabilization of Ukraine.

“The latest sanctions attacking Russia are like a gun being pointed at Putin’s head. It is an immensely provocative and outrageous act of Western aggression that has no possible justification,” he said, adding, “But it reveals the reckless extent to which Washington is willing to go in order to preserve its precarious empire.”

Cunningham said the US sanctions against Russia have “nothing to do with alleged Russian destabilization of Ukraine” or the July 17 downing of Malaysian passenger aircraft over Donetsk.
“The airliner was most likely blown out of the sky by the Western-backed Kiev regime, with Washington’s collusion, for the obvious geopolitical gain of cornering Russia with the latest sanctions,” he wrote.
Cunningham said the US assault on Russia’s economy “is tantamount to an act of war.”
On July 29, the United States and the European Union slapped a new series of sanctions on certain sectors of the Russian economy over the crisis in Ukraine.
The Russian Foreign Ministry warned that the fresh wave of Western sanctions against Moscow could lead to higher energy prices for Europe.

SEE: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/07/31/373512/us-wants-putin-to-prostrate-himself/