Twenty five years after the September 11 attacks, the legacy of 9/11 still overshadows geopolitics. The attacks not only led to the death of almost 3,000 people, but they also set the West on a collision course with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Vladimir Putin was the first foreign leader to call and offer support to then US President George W. In a televised address, Putin pledged, “In the name of Russia, I want to say to the American people – we are with you. Bush after 9/11, as per iNews .
In 2023, Sir David Manning, a foreign policy adviser to Tony Blair who later became the ambassador to Washington during the Iraq War, said in an interview that Putin “was resentful that Russian interests were apparently being disregarded” in Iraq despite Moscow’s cooperative relationship with the US post 9/11.
Over the years, the relationship between Russia and the US deteriorated due to several factors.
Moscow’s narrative about the root causes includes the Iraq War, the enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to the Baltic states, Washington’s unilateral withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, and US support for the “colour revolutions” in Eurasia, as per a report by think tank Brookings .
