Washington and Moscow: Confrontation or Cooperation?

... Iraq. How will the new strategy affect Washington’s relationship with Moscow in the Middle East as well as the continuous conflict in Ukraine? Answering this question requires... ... 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... ... involved, “but the forces of international Islamic terrorism.”2 Putin knew about the al-Qaeda attacks against US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in the fall of 1998, which...