Washington, D.C., associate Carlos Ramos-Mrosovsky authored an article, "Our Friends the Russians?," which was published in the March 10, 2009, edition of the National Review.
According to Ramos-Mrosovsky, "President Obama's secret letter to Russian president Dmitri Medvedev has, as promised, 'pressed the reset button' on U.S.–Russian relations. The president has offered to abandon America's planned deployment of an anti-missile shield in Eastern Europe in exchange for Russia's help against Iran's nuclear-weapons program. This is an enormous diplomatic blunder that will encourage the very worst sort of conduct from Russia—and Iran."
Ramos-Mrosovsky continues: "The president's proposal has superficial appeal. If, as the United States has repeatedly assured Russia, the shield is directed at Iranian, not Russian, missiles, the deal might seem to make sense: better to keep nuclear weapons out of Iran's hands in the first place than to erect a shield against them. Yet this is to ignore both Russia's backing of Iran's nuclear program and the missile shield's place in the strategic relationship between the U.S., Russia, and the still-newly-free states of Eastern Europe."
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