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Obama or Romney? The Russian View
Dmitri Trenin openDemocracy, October 17, 2012http://www.carnegie.ru/
inShaRussia may not figure much in American elections, but President Putin
finds Mitt Romney’s description of that country as ‘geopolitical foe
number one’ useful in his management of domestic politics. He could
probably work with either candidate, but what sort of relationship with
Russia might either of them pursu
On the face of it, the contrast could not be starker. On the one hand
there is a President who, right from the beginning of his term, moved
to ‘reset’
US-Russian relations, which had reached a dangerous point under his
predecessor. On the other hand there is a challenger who, during the
campaign, famously proclaimed Russia to be the US’s ‘geopolitical foe
number one’. Given this, it is hardly surprising that official Moscow
would prefer Barack Obama to win in November. However, things are not as
simple and clear-cut as they might seem.True, Barack Obama has been, generally, a predictable partner to the Kremlin. His foreign policy focus has been far away from the area of Moscow’s prime geopolitical interest, the post-Soviet space.
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