US-Russia relationship facing diplomatic setback: Analyst
Russia has criticized the United States for hindering Russian diplomats’ access to polling stations to monitor the US presidential election, warning that American diplomats will not be allowed to observe any future elections in Russia.
Christopher Walker, a political commentator from London, told Press TV that the United States and Russia have reached a point in their mutual relationship, which is a diplomatic setback to where they were in the past.
Walker said on Tuesday, “It’s a bad sign for the future because it shows that relations already strained have got a great deal worse as an element of tit-for-tat in this.” He added, “This is a diplomatic setback.”
The analyst went on to say, “Russia has been accused by the US of trying to influence the elections” particularly by leaking emails of the Democrat candidate of the US presidential election, Hillary Clinton, to bring her down.
The Russian government has time and again rejected such allegations as baseless.
Pointing to Washington's decision to prevent the Russians from monitoring the US presidential election, he noted, “It’s laying down a diplomatic gauntlet for the future of the election, which Mrs. Clinton is now fairly confidently expected to win. She is taking a much more hawkish line on Russia.”
According to the commentator, the American authorities are trying to reintroduce the policy of the “Pax Americana” and based on the policy, the United States tries to restrain growing Russian influence.
Last month, the Russian Embassy in Washington said it was "baffled" by how the US government was responding to its requests to send observers to US polling stations.
A Russian election official suggested that the US obstructed Moscow's attempts to observe the November elections because “they see them as a threat.”
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