Washington and Moscow: Confrontation or Cooperation?

... Donald J. Trump took the unprecedented step of launching a cruise missile strike against a Syrian air base in retaliation for Bashar Assad’s use of poison gas against civilians, including children and infants. The strike came after a small US task force ... ... Russian president Vladimir Putin genuinely sought to enlist US support for a second Chechen war. Terrorism was the hook. President Bill Clinton and his principal Russian hand, Strobe Talbott, met Putin in September 1999 at a summit in New Zealand. Clinton would ...