For its part, Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s campaign faulted the administration for treating the Kremlin with kid gloves when Russia was, according to Romney, the United States’ ‘number one geopolitical foe’ because it ‘fights every cause for the world’s worst actors’. Four years later, in 2012, the Barack Obama re-election campaign showcased the accomplishments of the reset policy. Bush administration of endangering US security by needlessly antagonising Vladimir Putin’s Russia and raising the level of tension between the two countries, especially during and after the Russo-Georgia war.
Since the Soviet collapse, Russia has been an issue in every US presidential election campaign. The new administration will work to maintain the post-reset status quo over the next four years.
The US–Russian relationship is a limited partnership where cooperation and competition co-exist. Editor’s note: This article was originally published by Survival: Global Politics and Strategy.
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