When Barack Obama entered the White House, one of his top priorities was to “reset” the relationship between the US and Russia. The idea was that our relations with Russia had been too strained under George W. Bush, what with tensions over NATO expansion, missile defense, and human rights (stop me if any of this sounds familiar).
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Of course not. I seek to reset relations with Russia because I believe that Americans and Russians have many common interests, interests that our governments recently have not pursued as actively as we could have. For instance, I believe that Americans and Russians both would benefit from fewer nuclear weapons in the world, greater control over nuclear materials around the world, a defeat of extremist elements in Afghanistan and Pakistan, an Iran that produces nuclear energy but not nuclear weapons, and a North…
