Biden: Time To Repair Relations With Russia
Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday that the U.S. should repair its relation with Russia. He made the remarks during a gathering of world leaders in Munich, Germany.
Biden said both countries had to cooperate to fight Al Qaeda, the Taliban and other extremist. Washington’s reached out hand, however, doesn’t mean it will surrender on other issues to Moscow; Biden made clear the two continue to disagree on important subjects such as Georgia and Russia’s policy towards Eastern European in general.
Biden’s words are more proof that President Barack Obama favors a different approach to foreign policy than George W. Bush did. With Bush, diplomacy played less an important role than it did under Bill Clinton. Obama seems to have learned from Clinton’s mistakes and problems; his approach will likely be mixture of Bush’s foreign policy (George H.W.) and Clinton’s; both had their strengths and weaknesses.
Although improving one’s relation with others is almost always wise, Obama, Biden and Hillary Clinton have to be careful not to let Vladimir Putin use diplomacy in order to stall, to deceive and to prevent the U.S. from defending its interests against future Russian aggression and imperialism.
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