U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry said that Russia can join the TPP if it wants.
US-RUSSIA CROSSTALK: Russia-U.S. mutual investments have a future
→
Fast-forward to 2014 Ukraine, and the characters changed but the script didn't: "You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th-century fashion by invading another country on [a] completely trumped-up pretext," Secretary of State John F. Kerry said about Russia in Crimea, without a hint of Balkans irony.
CROSSTALK: Year of the Rat foresight, please
→