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NEWS | ENTERPRISE-RECORD+MERCURY-REGISTER FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 2017

DIPLOMACY

Russia reset? Trump tries where predecessors failed

By Matthew Lee
“The Trump adminis- adds to Moscow’s overrid- clear powers cannot have
The Associated Press
tration came in with a set ing suspicion that Washing- this kind of relationship.”
of problems and a level ton is willing to use force For Trump, it’s a dra-
WASHINGTON >> It’s a famil- of disagreement that are to promote regime change, matic reversal from his re-
iar refrain: A new American more difficult to just put regardless of who is in the peated campaign pledges
president seeks improved aside in the way the Bush White House. to forge a new U.S.-Rus-
relations with Russia. And and Obama administra- America’s anger is no less sian relationship. Likewise,
like his predecessors, Don- tions had been able to do,” palpable. It sees Russia at- Obama’s first secretary of
ald Trump is running into said Stephen Sestanovich, tempting to undermine state, Hillary Clinton, offi-
a thicket of obstacles, new a Council on Foreign Rela- NATO and European Union cially offered Russia a sym-
and old, to even maintain- tions expert who was U.S. unity, supporting violent bolic “reset” button. After
ing a functioning relation- ambassador-at-large for separatist insurgencies in his first meeting with Pu-
ship with Moscow. the former Soviet Union Georgia and Ukraine, and tin, Bush said he “looked
For Trump, the griev- from 1997 to 2001. “The ob- propping up a leader in Syr- the man in the eye” and
ances inherited from Pres- ALEXEI DRUZHININ — SPUTNIK, KREMLIN POOL stacles in the way of a reset ian President Bashar Assad “found him very straight-
idents George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council now are more serious than who is responsible for a civil forward and trustworthy,”
Barack Obama have been meeting in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, you had at the outset of any war that has killed hun- getting a “sense of his soul.”
compounded by Russian- Russia, on Thursday. other administration since dreds of thousands of peo- While Bush and Putin
backed Syria’s chemical the end of the Cold War.” ple. The accusation that the shared sentiments about
weapons attacks, retalia- his top diplomat departed ting along with Russia at The list of complaints is Kremlin tampered with the cracking down on terror-
tory U.S. missile strikes, Moscow empty-handed af- all.” The sudden U-turn long, particularly on the U.S. democratic process ism, they soon clashed. Pu-
election meddling allega- ter discussions with Putin underscored long-stand- Russian side. They range only buttresses those who tin chafed over Bush’s sup-
tions and Ukraine’s un- and other Russian officials. ing difficulties that have from NATO’s expansion see Russia as America’s port for popular revolutions
solved crisis. At the center “At the right time everyone plagued the two nations’ and European missile de- greatest geopolitical foe. against pro-Moscow leaders
of each problem is an en- will come to their senses & attempts at greater under- fense systems to a fear the As Secretary of State Rex on Russia’s borders, and
ergized and uncompromis- there will be lasting peace!” standing since the days of U.S. is promoting opposi- Tillerson said after emerg- strongly opposed America’s
ing force: Russian President Trump’s optimistic prog- their World War II alliance. tion to pro-Russian lead- ing from a nearly two-hour 2003 Iraq invasion. Bush
Vladimir Putin. nosis followed his declara- The Cold War may be over, ers and even Putin himself. meeting with Putin, “there became troubled by Putin’s
“Things will work out tion Wednesday that U.S.- but from Eastern Europe to Trump’s order last week is a low level of trust be- increased authoritarian-
fine between the U.S.A. and Russia relations “may be at the Middle East, Washing- to fire 59 Tomahawk mis- tween our two countries.” ism and assertiveness, cul-
Russia,” Trump neverthe- an all-time low,” and that ton and Moscow don’t see siles at a Syrian govern- He added ominously, “The minating in Russia’s 2008
less tweeted Thursday, as “right now we’re not get- the world the same way. ment-controlled air base world’s two foremost nu- war with Georgia.

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