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Tom Balmforth, Russia Profile
not affect the strategic balance in Europe, which is why Russia is not opposing it more vigorously. Nonetheless, Lozansky said the Patriot installation would harm the “reset” because of its political implications. “Once we’ve signed a new START, we need to sit down and agree in general: ‘are we partners?’, ‘are we allies?’. In this case, coming back to the Patriots, it certainly doesn’t look like we’re moving toward partnership and definitely not alliance. After all, why would you install missiles against a country, if you want to build a strong relationship with them?” said Lozansky.Elsewhere the “reset” has brought few dividends. The flight path over Russia for the transit of U.S. military equipment and troops, agreed by Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev in July last year, is still not functional. Even though the United States is increasing troop numbers in Afghanistan by 30,000 and therefore
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