It is a common, but often a mistaken and a dangerous approach to treat the enemy of our enemy as our friend. When President Donald Trump in the US was accused of making deals with Russia and allegedly enabling Russian interference in the 2016 US election, the very topic of Russia, and how the foreign policy of the West should be directed towards its government, soon became a highly partisan matter.
The simplistic popular narrative has become something of the following: if you’re on the political left, then Putin is bad because he is said to be friends with Trump and …read more
Source:: National Newswatch
