............."the consummate diplomat that he is, Obama virtually signalled from Seoul the US-Russia reset is ‘on’, no matter the change of guard in the Kremlin.
Why did he signal that? For one thing, Obama counts on Moscow not to queer the pitch on a range of issues that hold the potential to disrupt international security (and his re-election bid in November) — Iran, Syria, Afghanistan.
Washington played it rough during Putin’s bid in the March 4 election. But the Russians are large-hearted people. Moscow will now patiently wait for Obama’s second term in the Oval Office. After all, Obama held out a ‘presidential assurance’ on the one issue that matters to Russia’s foreign and security policies most in the coming decades — its nuclear parity with the US (what Moscow calls ’strategic balance)."read more
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