US/Russian relations back to 1955? Another quote from someone who has his head up his butt. Russian has changed big time, it has new growing pains, and a LEADER. Putin has nothing to gain from any hostilities with the USA. I don’t believe he sees us as an enemy, his main concern is holding Russia together. The last thing he wants now is being told how to run his country by a weakling president making demands upon him to agree with his new vision of how the “future” world should be. The problem is, the Russians already lived in his future world, and they weren’t happy with it.
Putin has made it pretty clear that he sees America as a threat to Russia within the past few years and he’s probably right in that assumption. Mitt Romney seemed to think that Russia was our single greatest geopolitical threat too.