The incoming Trump Administration faces rockier relations with Moscow than any new U.S. President since Ronald Reagan in 1981. As Thomas Graham and Matthew Rojansky have aptly noted, America’s Russia policy has failed. This failure runs deeper than Russian challenges to U.S. interests in Ukraine or Syria, and responsibility does not lie at the feet of any single administration. One could argue, if one were so inclined, that the Obama reset did not so much fail as simply run its course.What has collapsed beyond repair is the dream of a post-Soviet transformation of Russia into a democratic, market-oriented polity that …read more
Source: The American Interest
