Paul Sanders, executive director of the Nixon Center, who served as a political appointee in the State Department during the George W. Bush Administration calls current US-Russian relationship as an “underpowered car climbing a steep hill with no brakes”.
Mr. Sanders told to APA’s Washington DC correspondent that, it is difficult to move forward for both sides, but simultaneously impossible to stop without rolling backward.
Meanwhile, the analyst believes that official Washington and Moscow may eventually overcome the enormous challenges in their relationship, and would both benefit from doing so.
“So far, I guess, that day remains distant. Until then, trying to "reset" our relationship makes sense, but only with open eyes”, he says.
Speaking about the frozen conflicts in the Caucasus, Mr. Sanders mentioned that, these conflicts can blow up any time, however, there is a complex and difficult history to each of them and all sides have grievances and concerns.
“So long as the conflicts in the Caucasus remain unresolved, they will impose serious limits on economic development and on the living standards of everyone in the region, not only those in the immediate conflict zones”, he pointed out.
/APA/
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