is it possible to repaire US Russian relations?
Question by upyr1: is it possible to repaire US Russian relations?
After bombing the serbs to end the Balkans war- supporting every politician in the neighboring nations who have taken anti Russian stances even when they have worse human rights than Russia (Tajikistan for example) and with Georgia we’ve never really questioned Skashvili’s human rights record or elections- which are actually quite questionable- Skashvili won by the election by over 90% and his biggest rival mysteriously died. Putin won- by 70% and he’s had opponents run against him twice- (meaning they didn’t mysteriously die) then we sided with Georgia when they started a war with Russia instead of being publicly neutral blaming both sides for not settling it peacefully (according to German hearings the Georgian military was entering South Ossetia 10:30PM Russian reinforcements didn’t start entering until 11:30Pm and the Russians didn’t start firing missiles at Georgia proper until 7:00AM, and even on yahoo news the reports showed the Georgians entering Ossetia before the Russians entered Georgia meaning- Russia’s invasion was a COUNTER offensive)
Sided with Ukraine during their fight with Russia over gas-prices the Russians simply wanted to charge Ukraine the same prices they charge EU- Russia had been selling Ukraine gas cheaper then they charged their own people- Yevtushenko refused to sign a new contract and take some steps to maintain ties with Russia for cheap gas prices. about 44% of Ukraine supported Yanukovych who was backed by Kuchma. Is there any way we can reverse he blow US Russian relations have taken to find away to encourage democracy by working with the current political reality in Russia like visiting oppositi and firing up a new version of radio free Europe to get our point of veiw across and rebuild a partnership to fight terrorists nuclear proliferation and the risk.
Obama is not the person to do it- the Dems broke things via Kosovo and Obama talks about Russia as a threat not partner,
Best answer:
Answer by Carl J
Yes, I think so, but John McCain is not the person to do so. Obama, maybe? One problem is that we’ve let things between us get pretty bad under Bush.
Give your answer to this question below!