While George W. Bush began his presidency seeing in Russian President Vladimir Putin a friend and a partner, by the end of Bush’s presidency, US-Russian relations were strained. The two governments verbally sparred over the US withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002, and the US invasion of Iraq the following year. Tensions continued as the United States and Russia played out a new Great Game among the formerly Soviet Central Asian republics where the United States had been seeking military bases in support of US-led forces in Afghanistan.Perhaps the real breaking point in relations came, however, after Bush …read more
Source: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
