Obama and Putin at a G8 summit meeting in Northern Ireland. (Alexie Nikolsky/Ria Novosti/Krem)
Why The U.S.-Russia ‘Reset’ Is Falling Apart: Not Enough Incentive To Hold It Together -- Max Fisher, Washington Post
The White House’s decision to cancel a planned one-on-one meeting between President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin, apparently over NSA leaker Edward Snowden receiving temporary asylum in Moscow, seems like a new nadir to the ever-troubled U.S.-Russia relationship. It would seem to be yet another setback for the Obama administration’s once-vaunted “reset” of relations with Russia.
But there’s another way to read this: as an indication not that the reset failed on its own merits so much as that it’s being abandoned because neither country seems to feel it’s quite worth the trouble. The big problem may not be that Moscow and Washington disagree – although they certainly do – but that they just don’t care enough about those disagreements to go through the trouble of fixing them.
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My Comment: I completely concur with Max Fisher's analysis .... I could not have said it any better.
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