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Financial Times: Russia Has Lost All Sense of Proportion over Missile Defense

June 4, 2007 :: Financial Times :: Analysis

An editorial in The Financial Times criticizes Russian President Vladimir Putin for his bellicose rhetoric concerning the U.S. plan to house components of a limited missile defense system in Eastern Europe.  In response, President Putin has threatened to withdraw from two major arms control treaties, ushering in a new freeze in U.S.-Russian relations.  The Financial Times concludes:

 

The US could take more steps to defuse the dispute, not least discussing whether it could cap the number of interceptors at the Polish site. But the main responsibility rests with Mr Putin. Everything he has done so far this year has been to make missile defence a zero sum game from which only one side can emerge the winner. That is not the approach of a statesman. It is time for Mr Putin to overcome his country's resentment of the west and demonstrate that his Russia is a partner, not an old, aggrieved foe.

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