The Washington Post: “The U.S. has treated Russia like a loser since the end of the Cold War”

Former American Ambassador to the U.S.S.R, Jack F. Matlock Jr. has written an opinion column for the online edition of the Washington Post.

The former Ambassador thoroughly remembered a meeting between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, and paralleled it with the fruitless meeting between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russia’s top diplomat in their failed attempt to resolve the crisis in Ukraine.

The author claimed the language being used publicly now was a lot more persuasive than the language used, publicly or privately, back then.

In his recollection of the meeting, Jack F. Matlock said.

This time though, Shevardnadze looked Shultz in the eye and said through his interpreter: "George, I will check this out, and if your information is correct, I will do what I can to correct the problem. But I want you to know one thing: I am not doing this because you ask me to; I am doing it because it is what my country needs to do.

As I watched the scene, with as much emotion as amazement, it dawned on me that the Cold War was over.

Read the full article on: www.washingtonpost.com.