Since the time of President Harry S. Truman, the US has tried to prevent the emergence of an uncontrolled center of power in Eurasia, says Dmitry Suslov from the Moscow-based Council on Foreign and Defence Policy.
“After the Obama-Medvedev summit it has become clear that the US does not want to make any concessions to Russia on the post-Soviet space, neither in Georgia nor Ukraine. But still the message to these countries changed. Last year it was support of the anti-Russian policies. This year the Obama administration does not want Ukraine or Georgia to prevent the process of resetting Russia-US relations.”