Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
All it took to transform Vladimir Putin from a candidate for a foreign policy “reset” into a global villain was a change in presidents.
In 2012 Barack Obama mocked Mitt Romney for his 1980s view that Russia under Putin was our most serious global rival. Obama earlier had sent his Secretary of State to offer a cartoonish “reset button” to the Russians, and followed up a few years later by offering Putin “flexibility” after his reelection. After Hillary’s defeat and Trump’s campaign suggestions of outreach to Russia, Putin …read more
Source: FrontPage Mag
