It is fashionable in Russia to disparage our fundamental shift in foreign policy that followed the terrorist attacks on the US last year. According to this view, Russia sold its loyalty to the US-led anti-terror coalition too cheaply. In exchange for more bilateral and multilateral financing, Russia now faces growing US military bases on its southern flank in Central Asia and the Caucasus, while NATO is poised to expand right up to our Western border.
It is fashionable in Russia to disparage our fundamental shift in foreign policy that followed the terrorist attacks on the US last year. According to this view, Russia sold its loyalty to the US-led anti-terror coalition too cheaply. In exchange for more bilateral and multilateral financing, Russia now faces growing US military bases on its southern flank in Central Asia and the Caucasus, while NATO is poised to expand right up to our Western border.