This article is the third of three essays on U.S.-Russian relations in the transition to a new U.S. administration. The second is here.The new Trump Administration can be expected to conduct a thorough review of the country’s foreign and security policies. It would do well to avoid the temptation (one to which the incoming Obama Administration largely succumbed) of imagining that the nation’s foreign-policy problems are the fault of its predecessor’s incompetence, and that a defter touch would ameliorate or resolve a host of problems. Competence matters, of course, but a sober analysis would begin by recognizing the degree to …read more
Source: The American Interest
