i don't know much about the dispute with georgia,
but now that the cold war is over and russia and america share the same interests and political system, it's time for the two great powers to start working closely together.
i can't see any serious differences between the two, i don't know why they have to let extraneous issues complicate their relationship.
""but now that the cold war is over and russia and america share the same interests and political system, it's time for the two great powers to start working closely together.
i can't see any serious differences between the two, i don't know why they have to let extraneous issues complicate their relationship.""
A couple of comments - US foreign policy often seems to serve the interests of US multinationals, and to this degree makes our FPolicy at least somewhat antagonistic to any nationalist government trying to promote its own domestic industry. I assume this is a big element in our current relations with russia and the reasons the 2 countries are not already closer than they are. The fact the US bombed a former 'allied' though not warsaw pact state, Serbia/Yugoslavia, and has incorporated a number of former warsaw pact countries (and former SSR's) into NATO has NOT helped matters. It is fair to say I do not know what NATO's stated reason for existing is now. Who is it going to fight? Finally, I do not know what the popular view of America is in Russia. It may be that we are so unpopular as to make it politically unhelpful for putin to get very close to the US publicly.
Additionally, I hope our political system is NOT the same as russia's. Maybe it is on paper, of course, but their system reminds me more of any of a number of South American countries, with much greater fluidity than ours.
In general though I do agree with you. My layman's view is that the russians should have much more in common with the west than with china, and both countries have a long-term vested interest in political tranquility in the muslim world, proliferation of NBC weapons, etc. I suspect that the economic realpolitik behind the scenes is less amenable to greater cooperation than that.