Andrew Michta
Key Points and Summary – For over three decades since the Cold War, the United States has lacked a coherent strategy for Russia, lurching from one failed “reset” to another.
-This stands in stark contrast to the clear, successful Cold War doctrine of containment.
-Successive administrations have failed to grasp Russia’s true nature and objectives, allowing Moscow to rearm and pursue its imperial ambitions.
How to Deal with Russia – Hard Power: Washington must abandon its preoccupation with resets and normative language and urgently articulate a new grand strategy grounded in hard-power deterrence to counter a resilient and expansionist Russia in Europe and beyond.
The 30-Year Failure of U.S.-Russia Policy
Much ink has been spilled since the Anchorage meeting between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin—the American President has been both praised for his effort to end the carnage in Ukraine and criticized for giving the Russian leader the red-carpet treatment while failing to achieve his declared goal of compelling Putin to commit to an armistice.
And while such commentary is likely to continue for some time, one aspect of the Anchorage summit has yet to register in the public domain, namely that it underscored yet again that the United States still lacks a Russia strategy that would extend beyond efforts to reset the relationship and improve bilateral relations, while accounting fully for the nature of Russian power and its objectives.
Reset on Russia Strategy
Simply put, it has been over three decades since the Cold War ended, and the community of Washington experts, for the most part, still does not grasp what drives Russian policy and continues to be manipulated by Moscow’s propaganda and its information operations. And so, we continue to talk about another reset, while we should be talking about deterrence.
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