With no common political values or worldview, relations between the U.S. and Russia will struggle to improve in the wake of the Ukraine crisis.
After President Obama entered office in 2009, his administration launched a ‘reset’ of relations with Russia, with the aim of forming stable and cooperative relationship. Ruth Deyermond writes that the collapse in relations between the two countries following the Russian annexation of Crimea, and Russian military involvement in the Eastern Ukrainian conflict, is precisely what the reset was designed […]