
What Is the U.S.’s Long-Term Policy Toward Russia Now?
WASHINGTON—In the six weeks since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration has imposed a series of sanctions on Moscow, armed the Ukrainians, mobilized Western allies in opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin and sought to make him an international pariah.
The response has brought U.S.-Russia relations to their lowest point since the Cold War. Left unclear is the impact on Washington’s posture toward Russia in the long term and how permanent the U.S. government’s actions would be, should Moscow change its trajectory in Ukraine.