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Now that Barack Obama will soon begin his second term, it is not clear whether we are in for a revamped version of the “reset” policy or for a more robust attitude from the White House. Most experts in Washington talk about the US the administration’s growing frustration with Moscow’s intransigence on Syria, its hardening stance on Iran and its unchanging hostility to America’s plans for ballistic missile defense deployment in Europe. “Maybe the “party line” won’t change but the rhetoric most probably will”, my friends repeatedly assured me. I am not so certain.