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Is it reset or repeat?
This past week's rhetorical exchanges between Russia and the Republic of Georgia is a definite reminder that the complex political, historical and geographic issues at play in the Russo-Georgia War of August 2008 still plague both nations and affect Russia's relations throughout Europe.
Likewise, the "reset" of U.S.-Russian relations, touted by the Obama administration as a demonstrable change from Bush administration diplomacy, is, well, quite unsettled.
Take the U.S.-Russia "reset" first. The alleged "reset" of bilateral relations began last March with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's disastrous photo op, involving a large...
Russo-Georgia One Year On: From Reset to Repeat?
The US-sided with Albanians over Kosovo and bombed Serbia who never was a threat to the US--the Serbs southern brothers, it pushed NATO (an anti-Soviet relic from the Cold War)into the old Soviet Union almost as far as Hitler had gone and now some in the US want to push it even deeper, the US pulls from the ABM with plans...