Alexander Vershbow, Daniel Fried
“Wouldn’t it be nice if we got along with Russia?” Donald Trump, July 27, 2016.
Getting along with Russia, as then-candidate Donald J. Trump suggested, would indeed be a good thing. But, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama tried and failed; US-Russian relations are not much better under Trump, and Russia is not on especially good terms with Europe either.
Dealing with Russia “as it is,” as some capable Russia experts (including the authors’ former colleagues) recommend in their “open letter” urging that the United States rethink its Russia policy, sounds unarguably realistic.2
But, Russia “as it is” …read more
Source:: The Frontier Post
