Today is the sixth anniversary of Hillary Clinton’s reset with Russia. That’s when Clinton physically gave her Russian counterpart a “reset” button (though, in fact, she got the translation wrong):
In a later interview, on March 24, 2010, Clinton explained that she was trying to “strengthen Russia.” That, she explained, was the Obama administration’s “goal.” A clip of that interview from Russia First TV has been found by America Rising, a Republican-aligned research firm, which has posted it on YouTube:
“Shortly after Clinton famously joined Russia’s foreign minister in pushing the mistranslated reset button, Russia expanded a ban on meat imports from the U.S., had two officials expelled by NATO for espionage and detained, tortured and murdered Russian whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky. Highlights of the rest of Clinton’s reset include Russia helping Iran start a new nuclear facility, a threat of preemptive strikes against the U.S. from a top Russian military official, and Russian shipments of missile defense systems to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad,” says America Rising spokesman Jeff Bechdel.
“The magnitude of the reset’s failure while Clinton remained Secretary of State is surpassed only by the extent of Russian aggression since she stepped down. Russia has sent tanks, heavy artillery and around 12,000 soldiers to fight alongside Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine further exacerbating the ongoing civil war. The Russian Air Force has begun to encroach on American and European airspace while the Russian military has conducted exercises in the regions of Georgia Russia occupied after the 2008 invasion.”
