Will Tired Clichés Save US-Russia Relations? No

Russian Insider:



Deep in the inner recesses of the Kremlin there is a Russian group who crave to be loved by the American Establishment. For them shaking the hands of stuntman Steven Seagall or boxer Roy Jones Jr. – recent recipients of celebrity Russian passports -- or of moviemaker Oliver Stone, doesn’t quite cut it. 



So they draw large sums of money from the Russian state budget to media studios like RT, talk-shops like the Valdai Discussion Club, and think-tanks like the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy to host the conferences and banquets at which they can ingratiate themselves with their American inamorati – and most importantly, be seen to be loved in this fashion by President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.  For they, too, want to be loved.



The Russian demand for American love potions extends with special keenness to US warfighters against Russia, and US spies against Russia.



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