Washington and Moscow: Confrontation or Cooperation?
... divided over whether to pursue a hard line with Russia or to cooperate with it. With Donald Trump favoring the latter course, Moscow “voted” for him in the 2016 elections... ... the Libyan intervention. The result was the intensification of Russian support for Bashar Assad’s beleaguered regime in Syria. In 2013, when Obama reneged on his chemical weapon red line in Syria, Putin got... ... 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...
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