Mitt Romney was right about Russia

One of the most ridiculed remarks of 2012 was Mitt Romney’s assertion that Russia is “without question our No. 1 geopolitical foe.” 

Then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said the comment “smelled of Hollywood,” while then-senator, now secretary of state, John Kerry sniffed that it was “breathtakingly off-target and naive.” 

“The 1980s, they’re now calling to ask for their foreign policy back, because, you know, the Cold War’s been over for 20 years,” cracked President Obama.

What a difference a year makes. 

When Edward Snowden, the fugitive former National Security Agency contractor who leaked classified information, needed a country to escape to, he chose Russia — a place where genuine whistleblowers are subjected to show trials, or simply murdered. 

After making the young spy cool his heels for a few weeks at the transit lounge of Sheremetyevo Airport, Russian President Vladimir Putin granted Snowden — charged with three felonies, including violation of the Espionage Act — temporary asylum.

In response to this national embarrassment, Obama announced that the U.S. would “take a pause” and “recalibrate the relationship” with Russia. That shift will not result in anything as drastic as a resumption of the Cold War, which, for what it’s worth, Romney never actually invoked. 

But granting asylum to an American traitor is the least of the Russian insults and outrages since the Obama administration launched its much-hyped “reset” back in 2009, premised on the alleged “interests” of the two countries, which “coincide in many places,” as Vice President Biden put it.

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