Kissinger's Vision For US-Russia Relations - by Henry A Kissinger
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/kissingers-vision-us-russia-relation...
"Russia should be perceived as an essential element of any new global equilibrium..."
Good article NDPP. Although I consider Kissenger a war criminal he has had a major influence over US foreign policy at various times in his life so his opinions are worth reading. I found it interesting that the working group that was in place during the Bush administration seems to have been abandoned as soon as Obama took office at the start of 2009. Hopefully Sanders will win the election and unlike Obama he will prove to be a man of peace.
From 2007 into 2009, Evgeny Primakov and I chaired a group composed of retired senior ministers, high officials and military leaders from Russia and the United States, including some of you present here today. Its purpose was to ease the adversarial aspects of the U.S.-Russian relationship and to consider opportunities for cooperative approaches. In America, it was described as a Track II group, which meant it was bipartisan and encouraged by the White House to explore but not negotiate on its behalf. We alternated meetings in each other’s country. President Putin received the group in Moscow in 2007, and President Medvedev in 2009. In 2008, President George W. Bush assembled most of his National Security team in the Cabinet Room for a dialogue with our guests.
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/kissingers-vision-us-russia-relation...