End of the Affair: Inevitable Collapse of Obama’s Russian Reset

Russian Rejection

After Snowden and snubs, the Obama-Putin relationship hits all-time low. Peter Pomerantsev reports.

Published Aug. 8 2013 7:09AM EDT

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It usually ends in tears. The Kremlin-White House romance has fallen repeatedly from starry-eyed hope and foreign-policy petting to hysterics and blame-gaming.

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Jimmy Carter thought he could find a partner in Brezhnev.

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End of the Affair: Inevitable Collapse of Obama’s Russian Reset

After Snowden and snubs, the Obama-Putin relationship hits all-time low. Peter Pomerantsev reports.

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Peter Pomerantsev