In the presidential history of the United States of America it has always been good practice to consider the period from the November elections to the inauguration of the new President, as a period of interregnum. A kind of vacatio legis where the outgoing strong man avoids making important decisions, aimed at complicating the path of the next White House tenant.
It is an unwritten tradition dictated above all by common sense. Even when the passage of deliveries does not involve a change of political color (in the last 50 years it happened only between Reagan and Bush father), the start of work for the new President is always difficult, if only for the necessary running-in period to the new team to get familiar with the new superpowers. Making things even more difficult would be a fall in style and an irresponsible act towards national stability and security.
Barak Obama, also known in the democratic field as one of the worst presidents of all time in foreign policy, has broken this tradition, making it more bitter a departure of the scene already in itself far from triumphant.
Like all presidents with double mandates, Obama has never lost in electoral comparisons: however, he is doing so in terms of behavior and, even more serious, in terms of content. A few days after his farewell to the White House he carries out an openly hostile act at the diplomatic level, expelling 35 Russian officials with the very serious accusation of carrying out acts of espionage, disguised as a diplomat.
The show of strength, yet another of a mandate not consistent with the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to him in advance, officially serves to warn the American people, Congress and new presidential staff about the threats deriving from Russian interference in American domestic politics. In essence, Obama openly accuses Moscow of having played a non-secondary role in Trump's victory on November 8 and some of his entourage even defines the new President as a man of the Kremlin.
In reality, many read in Obama's move a direct blow to Trump who, already in the electoral campaign, had made public the intention to change course in relations with Moscow, inaugurating a period of potential collaboration.
The new dose of poison thrown into bilateral relations is added to the heavy legacies left by Obama (and previous administrations ...) and in all likelihood increases the slope of the path that the tycoon neworque will face in the first weeks of office.
For now the Kremlin responds with sarcasm, sending greetings and refraining from immediate retaliation. Like love, the war is done in two (at least): the new Cold War, so much desired by Clinton's neighbors, probably therefore will not be there, at least to the extent that Trump will keep faith with the electoral programs.
Obama, with a little more style and irony, could have avoided raising dust. If it were true that Moscow has put its nose on the American elections, it could have simply cooked Trump and the pro-Russian in their own soup, letting the fruits of so much discussed sowing arrive. The hysterical act of expulsion of Russian diplomats, on the other hand, does not have a particular practical significance because it will probably not be followed up. In essence, it does not help anyone: neither US security, nor global security, nor the prestige and memory of a mediocre presidential term.
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