Dmitry Medvedev’s bid to be the first to threaten Barack Obama is generating plenty of reaction, which is exactly what Moscow seems to have wanted. But the move has also been quite successful so far in disaggregating the president-elect’s vague foreign policy consensus while sowing disagreement and confusion from people who obviously know nothing about the issue. The Boston Globe editorial board, for example, appears to have been very, very frightened by this big scary Russian threat, and urgently suggests that Obama dismantle any plans that might upset Moscow, and in exchange hope that they will work with the United States to fight terrorism and stop protecting Iran from UN diplomacy.