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While politicians worldwide were congratulating President-elect Barack Obama on his win last week, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev demonstrated that his country intends to be just as aggressive with the new administration as it was with the last. In his state-of-the-nation address last Wednesday, only 12 hours after Obama’s election, Medvedev criticized United States foreign policy and announced Russian plans to place missiles in the Baltic region. We urge Obama to break from the Bush administration’s legacy by withdrawing the proposed American missile shield in Eastern Europe, while maintaining the commitment...
...this moment of transition and of heightening geopolitical struggle, it is hardly the time for soft diplomacy. Obama, like the European Union, should join Secretary Gates in calling Medvedev on a preposterous bluff...
...last name comes from the defunct state of Prussia. Its old capital, Konigsberg—renamed Kaliningrad by the Russians—seldom makes the news for much of anything. That changed, at least temporarily, when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced the day after Barack Obama’s election to the White House that Russia would place missiles in Kaliningrad in response to a Bush administration project, a planned missile shield in Poland...
...Medvedev has placed Obama in a difficult position before he has even taken office, but our President-elect now has a crucial opportunity to emerge strong. Though the shield was a brainchild of the Bush administration, it should not be thrown out with the bathwater. The Russians, meanwhile, need to be called out on their ridiculous gambit. Medvedev cannot realistically be prepared to attack Europe, with Russia’s recent economic slide and much of its revenue coming from oil sales to the very countries it now claims it will threaten. Obama will have many chances to improve...
...comes to resurgent Russia, a more united U.S.-EU front would definitely help. America’s most formidable rival has been flexing its muscle lately, first in Georgia and perhaps soon in Ukraine. The Russian economy may stand on shaky foundations, but the government of President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has developed a taste for the international spotlight. Despite the Russian president’s tough stance on the U.S. in his state-of-the-country address the morning after Obama’s election, the Kremlin described the first Obama-Medvedev talk on Saturday...