Per Bob's earlier post on the growing divide in Russia policy circles over what the Obama Administration can expect from today's Kremlin, here Russian political analyst Andrei Piontkovsky (survivor of an extremism trial) answers some of the arguments put forth in recent publications. Unfortunately the sound was lost on some other parts of the interview.
Andrei Piontkovsky and Realism
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So.... Putin needs the US to be his enemy. Now his efforts to support US operations in Afghanistan after 9-11 make total sense. As do Russian offers to provide us an alternative to the increasingly threatened LOCs through Pakistan to our troops in Afghanistan. NOT.
Which, by the war, is a much more cooperative gesture than ANYTHING the US has done for Russia in the past 20 years.
Oh, and we're not out of Manas airbase yet, and really, the Kyrgyz government had plenty of reasons of their own to turn up the pressure on us there.
On the other hand, the Hudson Institute might lose some budget if US-Russian relations got better...