FT.com / Comment & Analysis / Letters - Washington Also Needs to Change the Way it Engages

Sir, Strobe Talbott (“A Russian ‘reset button’ based on inclusion”, February 24) neglects the activities that must be excluded for that inclusion to have a chance of success. An era of inclusion does not allow for unilaterally placing an anti-missile defence system in Poland with no regard for the fears of others in that neighbourhood. Nor can an era of inclusion be based on surrounding Russia with a Nato that excludes it, while maintaining military bases and overflight rights in central Asia.