The Russian ‘Reset’ Charade
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 26th, 2010 4:32 am by HL
The Russian ‘Reset’ Charade
Cathy Young, RealClearPolitics
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's arrival in Washington, DC for a meeting with President Obama is the latest step in the much-vaunted “reset” in frayed United States-Russian relations. But in fact, the Medvedev visit highlights just what a charade the “reset” is: an empty political spectacle that is at best useless and at worst harmful, distracting the U.S. leadership from the search for effective solutions to international issues and helping prop up a corrupt, authoritarian, and ultimately unfriendly regime in the Kremlin.In a way, the sham nature of the…
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