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Priebe and Frederick discuss the implications of the findings in their new report, Future U.S. Peacetime Policy Toward Russia: Exploring the Benefits and Costs of a Less-Hardline Approach.
Using four historical case studies, the authors found that limited less-hardline approaches can lead to durable but narrow gains. However, issues left unaddressed by these approaches may still undermine the relationship over the long term.
Utah Sen. Mitt Romney made a thinly veiled reference to a moment from a 2012 presidential debate in a statement condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine and the foreign policies of two previous presidents.
Russia imposed the Minsk “agreements” on Ukraine in 2014 and 2015 through military force. Ukraine’s government and civil society regard the terms of those documents as inimical to the national interests. They spent these seven years resisting, evading, and asking to change those terms. Throughout this time, Russia has repeatedly said in frustration that only Ukraine’s Western “curators” (patrons), first …
And there was the obviously failed attempt at a russia reset. were there ample opportunities to take a hard line on russia so that president putin wouldn't be looking at what he deems to be a weak president? >> the response, what he could have done is respond to the cyber attacks when the intelligence community in october came out with a consensus statement saying they knew it was russia and they knew it was ordered at the highest levels of russia, which means vladimir putin. and the decision then, as a lot of the reporting has shown, they kind of dithered, they didn't know what to do or how t...