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I think the US would prefer a strong but US-friendly Russia to counter other actors in the area. Strong does not mean expansionist. Trying to set-up regimes i
by mc32 5y ago
I think the US would prefer a strong but US-friendly Russia to counter other actors in the area. Strong does not mean expansionist.
Trying to set-up regimes is mostly miss --we have quite a bit of experience in that area including Ukraine with the Orange revolution, KSA... and obviously many other places as well. Russia/the SU have an equal amount of experience but have had better results --served better (Cuba, Belarus, Kazakhstan, etc.)
- mytailorisrich 5y agoI don't think strong and US-friendly is a realistic combination. Russian and American geo-political interests are not aligned, and a strong Russia would push for its own interests and power as they are doing now (though they may have overplayed their hand).
- mc32 5y agoThere is always a chance. Yeltsin was that --albeit he was the wrong buy to have there --an alcoholic who didn't care about any consequence to his country. But someone like Medvedev, who had a business focus, could have had potential to create some allyship --such as had existed prior to the WWs --with other European nations as well as the US.