Commentary
One way of understanding the 2009–2014 Obama administration policy of “reset” with Vladimir Putin’s Russia is to recall two iconic incidents.
President Barack Obama (L) speaks with Russia’s President Dmitriy Medvedev in Seoul on March 26, 2012, during their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Seoul Nuclear Security Summit. Yekaterina Shtukina/AFP/Getty Images
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Victor Davis Hanson
Author
Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian. He is a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, a senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University, a fellow of Hillsdale College, and a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Mr. Hanson has written 17 books, including “The Western Way of War,” “Fields Without Dreams,” “The Case for Trump,” and “The Dying Citizen.”
