When Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump address security challenges to America and its allies in the next four years, Vladimir Putin’s Russia will loom large. This is no longer post-communist Russia attempting the transition to a market-based democracy and looking up to the West. That transformation was an epic failure. In Putin’s words, “Russia is rising from its knees”. And therein lies the threat.
Over the years, I have met Putin ten times. The next American president will meet the steely-eyed anti-status quo leader of a nuclear power with a long list of complaints, most recently articulated in a draft law …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
