The Sleeping Bear Has Awakened From His Nap!
Since the ending of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia and the United States began to have new opportunities to cooperate. Although both nations continued to have disagreements over many areas, both worked toward a better relationship. In 1986 President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev came close to agreeing to eliminate all nuclear weapons and share the so-called Star Wars defense technologies. Obama imposed several sanctions against Russia back in March of 2014 concerning the Ukraine crisis. The first sanction was Executive Order 13660 which imposed sanctions on individuals and entities that violated the Ukrainians sovereignty or stealing their assets. Several more were imposed in 2014 as well---thus straining the relationship between Obama and Putin. The House of Representatives just recently passed a resolution on March 23rd of 2015 to ask Obama to send weapons to Ukraine. We shall see where this leads. Internation...