No sooner had U.S. President Barack Obama left Moscow than numerous experts, swelling with ambition and guided by instinctual aggressiveness, began wailing that the summit did not produce the much-anticipated “reset” of U.S.-Russian relations, and that the new Cold War continues as before. But is that really the case? What were these impatient experts expecting from the top-level talks? That Obama would officially recognize the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and exclude Poland and the Czech Republic from NATO because of their desire to participate in a missile defense program?
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