Kommersant: Insufferable Strategies
The State Department in Washington has revealed its “strategic plan” for foreign policy in 2007-2012. A significant portion of the document is dedicated to America’s long-term diplomatic goals in the post-Soviet space, particularly with regard to Russia. For the first time since the Cold War, the US is openly saying that its top priority is to counter Russia’s “negative behavior” in numerous areas, from weapons sales to unreliable regimes to pressure from Moscow on the former Soviet republics, whose future the US links with so-called “color revolutions.” The new report promises to be yet another source of tensions between Moscow and Washington.
