Brookings
“…..What observers could not see, or refused to see, [in the Trump=Putin meeting at the Helsinki summit] was that this was not a meeting between adversaries. It was a meeting between allies, with convergent interests and common goals.
These, incidentally, have nothing to do with the 2016 election. They have to do with a common view of the liberal world order that the United States helped create seven decades ago. Both leaders seek its destruction. …..”
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