Reset and unsettled

摘要

Listen to critics of Barack Obama's ad-ministration and the story of American policy in eastern Europe is of a grand betrayal, featuring the binning of a promised missile-defence system, the freezing of nato enlargement and the headlong pursuit of better ties with Russia.rnThe facts are rather different. The single biggest security problem in the region was left untouched by the Bush administration: the near-defencelessness of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.