Obama's dangerous tactic

Behind the agreement between the US and Russia lies Russia's will to regain its status as an equal partner, writes the left-liberal daily La Repubblica: "[The agreement] is the US's sole possibility to defuse the ill-will of the regime that took office in 2000. Nationalist through and through, it still suffers from the Cold War defeat and from being treated as a secondary, even subordinate negotiating partner during the eight years of George W. Bush's presidency. For now Barack Obama has certainly made concessions to the regime, but he also seems ... to back the less ideological and more realistic [political] wing. Even opponents of the regime in Moscow doubt the correctness of this separation tactic. They fear that American intervention could further consolidate the twin leadership of Putin and Medvedev."

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