#TheEndIsNigh #WarLooms

Based on reporting by Breitbart Jerusalem and the Associated Press 

Russia’s ambassador to the UN said that tensions with the United States are probably the worst since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when Moscow and Washington took opposing sides in the conflict.

According to ambassador Vitaly Churkin, the current situation is not only reminiscent of cold War relations between the Soviet Union and the US more than 40 years ago, but much worse - with a glimmer of some hope...

“The general situation I think is pretty bad at this point, probably the worst … since 1973,” he said.

Nonetheless, “even though we have serious frictions, differences like Syria, we continue to work on other issues … and sometimes quite well.”

So the good news is that wasn’t the case generally during the Cold War...

For those fo you who do not know, when Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack against Israel on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar in 1973, the region was thrown into turmoil. 

According to historians, the threat of war between the Soviet Union, which backed the Arabs, and the United States, Israel’s closest ally, was the highest since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.

Accoriding to Churkin  there are “a string of things” that have brought US-Russian relations to their current low point.

“It’s kind of a fundamental lack of respect and lack of in-depth discussions” on political issues, 

Churkin pointed to the US and NATO deciding to build their security “at the expense of Russia” by accepting many East European nations formerly in the Soviet bloc as NATO members, and the United States pullout from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2001.

Most important, he said, was the conflict that erupted in eastern Ukraine in April 2014, weeks after a former Moscow-friendly Ukrainian president was chased from power by massive protests. Churkin called it “a coup” supported by the United States. Soon after, Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, which has led to Western sanctions against Moscow.

Ties between Washington and Moscow have deteriorated further in the past month after the collapse of a ceasefire in Syria and intensified bombing on Aleppo by Syrian and Russian aircraft, and American accusations that Russia is meddling in the US presidential elections next month - more on that in a minute.

Obviously, Chrukin said Russia would like to normalize relations with the United States.

“If the change of administration is going to help, that’s fine,” he said. But even if President Barack Obama stayed for another term, which he is barred from doing, “we would be pushed to trying to get back to normal in our relations.

You can see Churkin and US envoy Power duke it out here.

Interestingly, some have pointed out that that Hillary and Obama benefit from this whole fiasco, however, I am not sure why... Any thoughts?