If Romney were in charge, Russia would have been declared a terrorist state akin to Iran by this point. Which they are.
You know what’s funny is that what the Russians think of Americans is slightly milder than what Iranians think. Not all Russians, but there’s been a good running campaign to convince the Russian people that going by the American way bankrupts the Russian economy and that Yeltsin was a fool for following western economic counsel. That’s the reason why Putin gets re-elected by the Russians despite so much of the U.S. despising him. The Russian electorate could care less about what the U.S. politicians think when they consider the Americans to be a bunch of #$%^&#%.