Relations between the U.S. and Russia appear to be almost at the point of no return
Relations ... ... These include security concerns and disputes revolving around NATO and European Union enlargement, Russian actions in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, as well as the nature of the conventional and nuclear ... ... that has been further antagonizing relations.
First, NATO-member Turkey
shot down
a Russian aircraft in November 2015 — an action ... ... Then, in early April 2017, the U.S. fired 59 cruise missiles at Syrian airbase on grounds that the Syrian military had allegedly ...
The story of how Russia won the (First) Russo-American Cyberwar because ... ... diplomatic efforts to win cooperation with the Russians on Syria, as all recent diplomatic talks with them on ... ... threatening whole parts of Aleppo with mass slaughter); Ukraine also saw Russian escalation.
Kerry’s ... ... close decision; Russia has also been active in non-NATO Sweden this year, particularly when it was voting ... ... Austria. Furthermore, U.S. and NATO “ally” Turkey has taken a decidedly sharp anti-democratic ...
On August 9, 2016 a high level meeting between Presidents of Russia and Turkey took place in St. Petersburg. This crucially important summit was the first foreign ... ... and Washington. The Kremlin’s foreign policy goes against Western interests in Ukraine and the Black Sea. The result is ongoing conflict in Eastern Ukraine and economic... ... is close to being isolated from international affairs. Turkey has historically been NATO’s ally. Still, Washington is supporting the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syria, which is considered in Ankara as a branch of the Kurdish Workers’ Party...
