Saturday 23 October 2021
Human history outlook
Barack Obama sees world at “turning point”
Almost five years after his last term as US President, Barack Obama is never tired of expressing his view of developments in the world. Often it is about the status quo of politics. Now he explains at a performance where he sees the world in terms of human history.
Former US President Barack Obama sees the United States and the world at a “turning point”. On the one hand, there is a current with a “policy of meanness and division and conflict,” said the Democrat in Richmond during a campaign appearance before the gubernatorial election in the US state of Virginia. “But the good news is that there is another way we can pull together and solve big problems.” This is a decision “which I believe will determine not only the next few years, but also the next decades of human history”.
Obama said it was about determining what kind of democracy the next generation would inherit. He warned against a “return to the chaos that has caused so much damage”. The ex-president is likely to allude to the term of office of his successor Donald Trump, who ruled the White House from 2017 to January this year. In Virginia, Obama’s fellow party member Terry McAuliffe and Trump-backed Republican Glenn Youngkin are running for governor. The election is on November 2nd. It is considered an early mood test for the nationwide congressional elections well in a year.
Obama praised Merkel as a moral compass
Who Barack Obama regards as a positive force in world affairs, he only recently underpinned in a video message that was shown to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s departure at what will probably be her last EU summit. In it he paid tribute to Merkel for her “relentless” moral compass and many years of good cooperation. “So many people, girls and boys, men and women, have had a role model to look up to in difficult times,” Obama said in the video that was circulated on Twitter. He also emphasized that it shows character that she would probably rather work at the EU summit than be the focus of attention at this one.