NEW YORK — New Yorkers are not easily distracted from their solipsistic love of the “greatest city on earth.†It takes a hurricane, a terror attack or — at the very least — hostile foreign powers meddling with their cherished electoral system to look beyond the shores of their own island.
For the first time in the more than two decades I’ve been dropping in on friends in Manhattan from the Russian-speaking world, Russia now dominates the conversation at the dinner table. People are desperate to understand what Putin is really after, and what he expects from a Donald Trump presidency. …read more
Source: POLITICO – Europe Edition