Regarding Russia, the Bush administration failed to engage the Russians on an equal footing as partners for peace, opting instead to aggravate Moscow by moving ahead with controversial projects such as the missile and radar system the United States is installing in the Czech Republic and Poland — both former Warsaw Pact countries. And in addition, rankling Moscow by inviting two former Soviet states, Georgia and Ukraine, to join Nato — an action perceived by Moscow as outright defiance. The Russians regard the deployment of US missiles in Eastern Europe as targeting them, even though the US has insisted that the missiles are defensive, and meant to deter future threats emanating from other sources — read here Iran.
Russian offers to participate in the missile defence project and to install them in a former Central Asian Soviet republic, such as Azerbaijan, were summarily dismissed by Washington as inadequate and with facilities that are too antiquated.
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