Obama pursues potato diplomacy

-DR. ABDUL RUFF COLACHAL 

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USA and Russia, former ideological foes ,  have harmed the world by their confrontationally cooperative operations globally, now for decades. And trend still has survived even after the Cold war era. USA and Russia have advanced their global interests by involving themselves in select beneficial conflicts.

Americans, very shrewd in triclomatic features and maneuvers, have extended the dinner diplomacy worldwide with additional but unusual variety stuff - potato diplomacy  - and have successfully tried it on the Russians in France, claiming legitimacy for all their bold crimes, as the only super power of globe, against humanity. .  

Since both these powers  are UNSC veto members, they could  very easily manipulate things in their favor.

The US-Russia fiasco keeps the world political scene interesting, notwithstanding the horrible impact it on humanity destructions and human  loses. After months of tension between the United States and Russia over issues ranging from Edward Snowden's intelligence leaks to the latest Syrian conflict in order to stay as top level powers to decide the fate of global nations, including those seeking freedom from colonialism and imperialism, US Secretary of State John Kerry sought to bridge the diplomatic gap on January 13 by giving his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov an unusual gift of potatoes.

Kerry, who was in Paris with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to hammer out details of a peace conference on Syria scheduled for January 22, surprised his counterpart by opening up a box and presenting him with two large Idaho potatoes.

Kerry joked to journalists about his gift to Lavrov: "Well, he told me he's not going to make vodka. He's going to eat them." Lavrov replied that in Poland, they make vodka from potatoes. “I know this. But that's in Poland. We used to do this in the Soviet Union. Now we try to do it from wheat."

Potato is meant for a joke as well as diplomacy tool. After all, Americans do not do anything just for joke, especially with Russian.

Kerry then revisited the matter, saying he wanted to clarify. "There's no hidden meaning. There's no metaphor. There's no symbolic anything," he said. "We were having a good conversation in the course of the Christmas break over the subject of Idaho, which was where I was at the time, and he recalled the Idaho potatoes as being something that he knew of, so I thought I would surprise him and bring him some good Idaho potatoes."

Lavrov, speaking in polished English, suggested the potatoes may have symbolic use as the Syria negotiations approach. "The specific potato which John handed to me has the shape which makes it possible to insert potato in the carrot-and-stick expression. So it could be used differently," he said.

The Russian delegation reciprocated with a pink fur hat not for Kerry but for State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki.

USA and Russia are expected to find solutions to Iran and Syria. How will potato-fun exchange help with deals on Iran and Syria remains to be seen.

Can Russia really outsmart US triclomacy?