We've Got Your Russia Re-Reset

Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov 
hold a device a with a red button symbolizing the intention to 
“reset” U.S.-Russian relations during their meeting in 
Geneva, Switzerland, on March 6, 2009. AP

Superpower: Secretary of State John Kerry is attempting a "Russian re-reset" by personally engaging with Vladimir Putin. But the real way to rein in an aggressor is to act, not beg.

After meeting for more than four hours with the ex-KGB officer, Kerry declared "there's no substitute for talking directly to key decision-makers." Actually, the problem is that this administration substitutes talk for resolute U.S. action in opposing adversaries. And Russia is the adversary with the greatest strategic global reach.

With Putin a menace from the Baltics to the Mideast, it's time to stop expecting Moscow to be persuaded to reset itself and do some resetting of our own, without begging for permission. Some obvious starting points:

• Abandon the demeaning "flexibility," as President Obama called it during his hot-mic moment in 2012 with then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, to bend to Putin's will on matters of dispute.

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• Reverse course and follow through on George W. Bush's plan to deploy a full missile defense shield system in the Czech Republic and Poland. Though the primary purpose was to counter Iranian missiles, Moscow complained that such a shield threatened its arsenal and posed an obstacle to relations with the West.

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