Foreign Policy: Russia announces it will withdraw from a post-Cold War deal to dismantle nuclear and chemical weapons when it expires next year. Is this what President Obama meant by a “reset” in U.S.-Russian relations?
The so-called Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program, which had been renewed twice by the U.S. and Russia, was a major post-Cold War success.
It led to the deactivation of more than 7,650 strategic warheads from the old Soviet Union, and seemed to put the former USSR onto a far more peaceful path. It helped seal President Reagan’s hard-won U.S. victory in the Cold War against its former foe.
But after four years of Obama’s weak stewardship of our nation’s national security, the Russians are saying “nyet” to renewing the deal in 2013. It’s easy to see why.
Everywhere they look, they see U.S. weakness and a failure to respond to overt provocations by others.
They see world affairs as the U.S. retreats from previous strong alliances, such as those with Britain and Israel, and ignores or downplays others, including our ties with Japan.
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Maybe just before the election Russia & Iran will both decide to come back to the table for talks. Where’s my Obama phone????
They will not come back to the table until we have a new administration and a show of strength. We are not keeping our word thus have lost credibility. As long we are catering to muslim, and have one in office which puts us on the verge of having our freedom gone from government control and entitlement programs we have nothing to offer. We protect the weaker countries mostly by a show of strength which is being a deminished by obama so we will be easily taken over. Jhad training on our soil for pete’s sake. Just who are they going to attack? Infidels beware vow to allah or die, that’s the muslim way.
RUSSIA, APPARENTLY HAS LOST CONFIDENCE IN OVOMIT………..FEARS HE WILL LOSE THE ELECTION,THEY AREN’T WAITING AROUND FOR THIS FIRST CLASS @$$HOLE CLOWN DICTATORER
Obama and Clinton are both indescribably incompetent. Never in the past 75 years has America been so weakened as it has with these two morons at the helm. They must not skate on Libyagate.