Headlines: A strategy of spectacle | The Economist: "When Russia started its bombing campaign in September, Barack Obama warned that Syria was “not some superpower chessboard contest, and anybody who frames it in that way isn’t paying very close attention to what’s been happening on the chessboard.” But if Mr Obama did not see it that way, Mr Putin did; and though what would come about on the chessboard mattered to him, the simple fact of playing mattered more." | Obama’s Cuba visit is latest step towards ‘new alliance of the Americas’ | World news | The Guardian
A strategy of spectacle | The Economist : "When Russia started its bombing campaign in September, Barack Obama warned that Syria was “not some superpower chessboard contest, and anybody who frames it in that way isn’t paying very close attention to what’s been happening on the chessboard.” But if Mr Obama did not see it that way, Mr Putin did; and though what would come about on the chessboard mattered to him, the simple fact of playing mattered more." Obama’s Cuba visit is latest step towards ‘new alliance of the Americas’ | World news | The Guardian Yes, he tried: what will Barack Obama's legacy be? | US news | The Guardian Apple vs. the F.B.I.: How the Case Could Play Out - The New York Times 3.19.16 Sa Putin Leaves All Options on the Table In Syria A hollow superpower | The Economist Putin’s Syrian Surprise, A Hollow Su