Steve Clemons writes:
... Obama has signed a historic strategic arms reduction treaty with the Russians. This reverses the erosion of a relationship that — like the U.S.-China relationship — is crucial to virtually all the administration’s goals.
...Obama has now showed two essential strengths. First, he can deliver what he promised in September 2009, when he chaired a special Security Council session. Second, his team understands the difference between approaches that have strategic depth and can move global players into new positions versus those that are vapidly bilateral and uncompelling to either party.......But Obama and his team are finally showing a Nixonian deftness for creating new possibilities at just the time the world believed America was a global has-been. ...h/t Steve Benen
