Soft power vs hard power

Submitted by sara (United States), Mar 5, 2014 at 00:04

As Stephen Hayes so eloquently put it today when referring to Obama's laughable insults to Putin about his being weak (or better, Kerry thinking that Putin might be scolded into submission if he said that invading crimea was not very G8 like behavior...)

"soft power only works when there is hard power to back it up"

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