Is it necessarily bad that Russia wants to be a player on the world stage? It seems that the State Department wants Russia to be a good little slave nation. Is it any wonder they resent the US.
Well...I don’t know if I’d go as far as saying “slave nation”. I’d say, instead, that after 1991 the West treated Russia like an uneducated child, one that must be lectured and, occasionally, have its hand slapped.
And I wouldn’t put all of that blame on Clinton. Bush II wasn’t much more sensible in that regard.