Sriram Ramakrishnan
Senior Editor with the Economic Times. All views personal
Obama needs a strategy
Understanding Obama’s foreign policy flopsLast November, Foreign Policy published an article about George W Bush’s failed approaches to Vladimir Putin when he was the president from 2001 to 2009. The article chronicles how Bush 43 tried to woo Putin and treat Russia as a friend only to give up exasperated. In one place, Bush even tells Tony Blair, the British prime minister, that talking to Putin is like talking to a high school student and was a whole series of juvenile arguments.Sriram Ramakrishnan4 min read