It’s not just The Donald. Since World War II the Kremlin generally has seen most Republican presidents more benignly than their Democratic counterparts. Russian leaders generally believe Republicans are less wedded to unfriendly ideologies, such as human rights, and are more pragmatic. And when a Republican cuts a deal, they believe, it is more likely to stick. Republicans come across as honest adversaries who understand the language of power.The Kremlin has disdained—and under-estimated to its later regret—two Democrats it saw as weak: John Kennedy and Jimmy Carter. At a premature 1961 Vienna summit Nikita Khrushchev went hard at Kennedy, who …read more
Source: The American Interest
