The Nation (Thailand)
18 March 2015
- RSIS
- Media Mentions
- America’s Russia Policy is Dangerously Misguided
America’s Russia Policy is Dangerously Misguided
Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its backing of secessionist rebels in Eastern Ukraine have set the Kremlin on a collision course with the West. The United States and its European allies have angrily retaliated by imposing economic sanctions against Moscow and deploying additional Nato troops to Eastern Europe.
The Obama Administration has also signalled that its next step may be to send arms to the Kiev government. In turn, the Putin regime has even further raised the region’s temperature by flying Russian nuclear bombers into the airspace of the United Kingdom and other Nato states. From Washington’s vantage point, this frightening escalation of tensions between the world’s two most formidable nuclear powers is deeply misguided.
…Evan N. Resnick is an assistant professor and coordinator of the United States Programme at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University.
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