Category: External Article – ‘Responsible Statecraft’
Title: Calling Putin “a killer” is not exactly diplomatic finesse
Author: Anatol Lieven
The Biden administration has created an completely unnecessary confrontation with Russia at a time when reasonable working relations with Moscow are extremely important for achieving two immediate and key administration goals: rejoining the nuclear agreement with Iran, and a peace settlement in Afghanistan facilitating U.S. military withdrawal from that country and an end to America’s longest war.