Expanding U.S.-Russia Competition - 0 views
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IT APPEARS TO STRATFOR THAT THE RELATIONSHIP between Moscow and Washington is — despite public successes of the START negotiations — becoming increasingly complex.
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That the American president is choosing to meet with the Central and Eastern European leadership en masse in the same venue that is supposed to be dedicated to the pomp and circumstance of the signing of the new START treaty will not please Moscow. This is particularly true since Russia had originally planned for the signing of the treaty to be a minor stop on Medvedev’s own tour of the region, and because the event was designed to highlight Russia’s status as a superpower worthy of the United States’ undivided attention.
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The point is not that Poland and its neighbors expect to see the Wehrmacht on the horizon any time soon, but rather that they remember how a “normal” Germany repeatedly sold out Central and Eastern Europe’s security for its own national interests.
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Russia has long dabbled in Latin America as a way to make the United States nervous — particularly during the Cold War.
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the most important kind of help that Venezuela could receive from Russia at this point is something (anything) to assist with Venezuela’s dire electricity situation.
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Russia appreciates the opportunity to meddle in the Western Hemisphere just as the United States is using the opportunity in Central and Eastern Europe to exert influence in Russia’s near abroad.