MOSCOW — If Hillary Rodham Clinton was hoping to win Russian support for efforts to use a threat of sanctions to pressure Iran to come clean about its nuclear ambitions, her first trip to Moscow as secretary of state got off to a rocky start Tuesday.
(St. Petersburg Times)
Maybe we need another
"reset" button. Unless it really was an "overcharge" button all along, and the Russians are overcharging us despite Secretary of State Clinton's assurance that would not happen.
Lavrov's announcement (pulling the rug out from under a serious sanctions regime--ed.) came despite President Barack Obama's recent decision to scrap plans for a ballistic missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, a system the Kremlin had strenuously opposed. While both sides denied that the decision about the missile defense sites was linked to a deal with Russia about Iran, observers had suspected otherwise.
So what did we get in return for ticking off our allies in Eastern Europe? Anything at all?
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