The foolishness of U.S. Russia policy

... many of those who shape our Russia policy must have seen these articles. (or, maybe they don't read). How can the sustained foolishness of US Russia policy be explained? Maybe the late Director of the (Russian) Institute of the USA and Canada, Georgi Arbatov hit the nail on the head in an interview he gave in the late 1980s. At a time when Americans were still very skeptical that Gorbachev was for real, Arbatov said in an interview: "We are going to do a terrible thing to you. We are ...