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“One of the fundamental mistakes of the Obama administration’s foreign policy was that it always tried to explain to others what was good for them—not what was good for America. That was perceived by the non-democratic world as chronic weakness; it was perceived by the democratic world as a lack of policy. A superpower can’t engage with the rest of the world by playing the role of the Jewish mother.”

(Israeli journalist Nahum Barnea speaking on US President Obama’s foreign policy, 04/12/2016)