{"id":5051,"date":"2014-03-19T21:47:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T21:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=5051"},"modified":"2014-03-19T21:47:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T21:47:49","slug":"u-s-russia-relations-in-freezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5051","title":{"rendered":"U.S.-Russia relations in freezer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not call it Cold War 2.0, at least not yet.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times reports that the Ukraine crisis involving the Russian takeover of Crimea signals a deepening freezing of relations between the world lone superpower and one of its rivals for international supremacy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"If Not a Cold War, a Return to a Chilly Rivalry\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2014%2F03%2F19%2Fworld%2Feurope%2Fif-not-a-new-cold-war-a-distinct-chill-in-the-air.html#?secret=xoQcKFc0zm\" data-secret=\"xoQcKFc0zm\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The United States won the first Cold War partly because the then-Soviet Union bankrupted itself by trying to out-muscle its American rivals. It didn&#8217;t have the resources to keep up. The United States won. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Russia emerged a damaged, highly corrupt nation.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s happening now in Ukraine isn&#8217;t the first such land grab that the Russians have completed. They did the same thing in Georgia in 2008. Ukraine&#8217;s unrest made Moscow nervous for the ethnic Russians in Crimea, which voted to secede from Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Where do U.S.-Russia relations go from here? Into the tank, according to the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>The Times&#8217;s Peter Baker reports: &#8220;The decision by President Vladimir V. Putin to snatch Crimea away from Ukraine, celebrated in a defiant treaty-signing ceremony in the Kremlin on Tuesday, threatens to usher in a new, more dangerous era. If it is not the renewed Cold War that some fear, it seems likely to involve a sustained period of confrontation and alienation that will be hard to overcome. The next reset, if there ever is one, for the moment appears far off and far-fetched.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Against this backdrop we have critics of President Obama pushing him to do more than he&#8217;s done. Obama&#8217;s response has been to rely heavily on international allies to join in condemning the Russians&#8217; efforts to undermine Ukraine&#8217;s sovereignty. Russia, of course, is having none of it.<\/p>\n<p>What does the United States do? What <em>can<\/em> the lone superpower do? The hard reality is that our hands are tied, except to deny Russia involvement in high-level economic summits, such as the G-7 meeting about to occur next week in The Netherlands. It should be the G-8, but Russian strongman Vladimir Putin won&#8217;t be there.<\/p>\n<p>The rivalry between the United States and Russia has just gotten a good bit frostier.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s not call it Cold War 2.0, at least not yet. The New York Times reports that the Ukraine crisis involving the Russian takeover of Crimea signals a deepening freezing of relations between the world lone superpower and one of its rivals for international supremacy. 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