Nikolas K. Gvosdev: “The United States policy establishment … lacks experience and, daresay, comfort, with dealing with rivals” like Russia, convinced that the so-called unipolar moment was “the norm rather than an aberration”https://nationalinterest.org/feature/russia-us-adversary-or-just-competitor-38132 …
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Washington tends “to lump competitors as being no different tha[n] adversaries, or to assume that the very act of competi[tion] … must be interpreted as a sign of hostility”
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Certainly, Russia must be regarded as a serious competitor since it “possesses, for the near and medium term, sufficient reserves of power that cannot be wished away or for which a strategy of predicting negative trends for Russia after 2050 is not feasible”
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“[E]ven if Russia faces long-term problems, it will remain a major international actor for the next several U.S. president[s],” forcing them to either “turn [Russia] into a near-peer partner” or “turn [it] into a non-peer competitor,” the latter a “costlier and riskier" approach
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Gvosdev quotes Jill Dougherty as saying that instead of “[c]onfrontation combined with an endless cycle of sanctions” or “a ‘let’s just be friends’ approach,” the U.S. “need[s] a bi-partisan, sustainable policy based on a realistic definition of why we even care about Russia”
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