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From Russia With Love.(United States, Russia and the Iraq War)
The U.S.-Russia relationship has always had its tricky moments. But things have begun to look a lot trickier since Washington accused Russian companies of supplying Saddam Hussein with weapons that could kill U.S. troops in Iraq. Just days after the start of its invasion, Washington threatened to level sanctions against three Russian companies for arming the Iraqis in defiance of U.N. rules.
Washington and Moscow are already at loggerheads over Iraq. Russia sided with France in vowing to veto a second U.N. resolution authorizing force against Saddam. Last week President Vladimir Putin called for an immediate end to the war, and he is likely to join France in demanding a future Security Council resolution putting the United Nations in charge of the postwar reconstruction of Iraq, rather than a civil administration headed by the United States and Britain. Washington and Moscow still have plenty of reasons to preserve the makeshift alliance they forged in the wake of 9-11. (They range from the joint war against terrorism to the much-ballyhooed "energy alliance.") But it's unclear whether those incentives for cooperation can survive a major loss of trust.
Russia's alleged weapons transfers could well trigger just such a crisis. It's not just that Iraqis are using Russian ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, From Russia With Love.(United States, Russia and the Iraq War)