I think they're actually the doing the best that they can here. What we have to do is not get all kind of caught up in just responding and reacting to things that the russians are doing. He's a master of preemption. He tries to lay out there as many options as possible. And perhaps that speech and yesterday wasn't the best way of doing that, yan it?
Foreign policy and national security expert Fiona Hill is a go-to voice in Washington for understanding the longstanding tensions between the US and Russia. Her latest book, There Is Nothing For You Here, is part memoir, part reflection on how factors ranging from deindustrialisation to disenfranchisement over the course of decades have left a swathe of voters in nations such as the US, UK and Russia, open to populist policies and strongman leaders.
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