When Will Trump Realize That We've Been in a New Cold War for Years Now?

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[b][u]OBAMA[/u][/b] did, in a Moscow department store on clearance.

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[i]Washington Post[/i]:
From ‘reset’ to ‘pause’: The real story behind Hillary Clinton’s feud with Vladimir Putin
11/3/16

[quote]Obama’s surprise choice as secretary of state was tasked with managing the administration’s “Russian reset” policy, which sought to take advantage of the leadership changes in Washington and Moscow to inaugurate a new era of cooperation. The new White House believed Russia’s new president, Dmitry Medvedev, — a St. Petersburg politician 13 years younger than Putin and lacking his predecessor’s experience in the Soviet bureaucracy — might be more open to a real partnership.

Former State Department and White House officials who attended early strategy meetings said that Clinton ultimately agreed with the approach. But she remained broadly skeptical that the relationship with Russia would ever extend beyond specific issues where Moscow saw an advantage in cooperation.

“[b][big]The reset was the president’s idea — it was something he wanted to do[/big][/b],” said Philip Gordon, the assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs during Clinton’s tenure. “But there was this logic that we were in a terrible place with Russia and we should give it a shot to see if we could get some concrete things done, in our own interest.”

Another senior U.S. official present during the discussions attributed Clinton’s reluctance to lingering suspicions about Putin. The former KGB operative who served as president in the early 2000s had accepted the prime minister’s job under Medvedev, but many Kremlin watchers believed that Putin was still Russia’s de facto leader and that Obama’s attempts to woo Medvedev misunderstood the real power structure in the Kremlin. These observers watched Putin’s hardening view toward the United States with increasing concern.[/quote]