Trump: the real re-set

In 2009, 20 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Hillary Clinton as US Secretary of State for Barack Obama's young presidency launched a new policy towards Russia which was called 'overload'. Well, actually it was called 're-set' in English, but mistranslated by a State Department member of staff. It was a one-sided initiative based on the idea that the US had a unilateral ability to change relations with Russia. It came just over a year after Russia's intervention in the Georgian territory of Abkhazia.

After this 'reset' or 'overload' came a series of increases of Russian involvement first in Syria and then in Ukraine, and NATO reactions in terms of increases in troops in Poland or the…