You could say that by standing up to Russia, the U.S. is finally getting some balls. — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
I don't want to suggest that Trump is emulating Putin. Trump is his own creation. — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Putin's treatment of Chechnya became a cautionary tale of what would happen to rebels and terrorists - and indeed to entire groups… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Stop pyschoanalyzing Putin, and recognize that there is a certain mind set. The West must draw a line under 'Putinography' and just… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Chechens need to be able to develop their own viable political society and regional economy whether they remain part of Russia or… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
The idea is that Putin-Trump would be a win-win for the Kremlin, as they have mutual interests and alliances. — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Putin has the ability to advance his interests in many different ways. Sometimes tactical diplomacy can help. — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Calling Trump 'Putin's puppet' is a sign of the weakness of the American political system. It appears so weak and fragile that… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
And being forceful with the United States and not letting the United States have its way, is always good politics in the… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Indeed, for Russia, inconsistency is an integral part of its foreign policy strategy, particularly under Putin. — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
President Trump understands that President Putin does not like to be insulted. Putin takes it very personally. He harbors a grudge. He… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Russia doesn't want to have a return to the situation where it was the United States and say Israel, making determinations about… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Japan has good reasons for wanting to transform its relationship with Russia. Tokyo has openly expressed serious fears of a military confrontation… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
The refugee problem is definitely a disaster for the entire region. Putin - the refugee problem in Chechnya was largely contained inside… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Everybody used to talk about Chechnya as a place, in the Russian imperial and Soviet periods, that was essentially governed by extended… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
There is certainly this widespread anti-Americanism within the Russian elite, a feeling that the U.S. lost any moral high ground it could… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
The Russians didn't invent partisan divides. The Russians haven't invented racism in the United States. But the Russians understand a lot of… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
In the instance of Iran for Russia, Iran is a very important counterweight to the Sunni Muslim powers in the Gulf, but… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Few issues better illustrate the limits of the Obama administration's 'reset' with Russia than the crisis in Syria. — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Russia has always been very careful to try to balance the interest of the Gulf states and Iran off against each other. — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Outside of the Moscow elite and a very small urban elite, Russia is one great big blue-collar country. — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
The Russian leadership doesn't operate in the same way as ours does. Informal networks have a much more important role to play… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
The capital city of Grozny in Chechnya was reduced completely to rubble, and Putin thought this was worthwhile because it kept the… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
New ties between Russia and Japan would mark not only a breakthrough in their relations but also a significant shift in Northeast… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
The real concern for the Russians is that they're going to get closed out, that there's gong to be a new 'Iron… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Tough sanctions would mean saying to BP, Exxon, Chevron, Shell, Boeing and Siemens that they can't do business in Russia. — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
The unfortunate truth is that Russia was the foreign power that systematically attacked our democratic institutions in 2016. — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Russia was dependent on China growing and driving the demand for its commodities: oil, gas and minerals. China was an alternative to… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
There is a good supply of Russia experts out there - people who have lived there with lots of good experience -… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
We have politicized the issue of Russia to a point that we can't have a sensible conversation about it. — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Our basic problem is how do we stop the hot war on the ground in Ukraine, and not get into a more… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
So Putin is not the dictator that he's often accused of being. He has to be very sensitive to public opinion. — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Putin operates like a super PAC, taking advantage of opportunities for negative campaigning. The purpose is to show that the U.S. has… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Chechnya was part of that whole wave of entities of the Soviet Union that had a very separate sense of identity, of… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
President Putin and the Russian security services operate like a super PAC. They deploy millions of dollars to weaponize our own political… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
The Cold War was obviously driven by a very intense ideological struggle that was very clearly defined. — Fiona Hill Copy Share
Outside of the Moscow elite and a very small urban elite, Russia is one great big blue-collar country. — Fiona Hill Copy Share
People in Washington, D.C., may not be paying that much attention to what's happening in Chechnya, but people in Riyadh and Amman and elsewhere… — Fiona Hill Copy Share
I have worked hard and emigrated to the U.S., and I think of myself as working class but I'm probably not any more. — Fiona Hill Copy Share
We've got ourselves into a situation where government service is somehow seen to be a political act rather than an act of civic duty… — Fiona Hill Copy Share
For Putin, Syria is all too reminiscent of Chechnya. Both conflicts pitted the state against disparate and leaderless opposition forces, which over time came… — Fiona Hill Copy Share
The Russians didn't invent partisan divides. The Russians haven't invented racism in the United States. But the Russians understand a lot of those divisions… — Fiona Hill Copy Share
New ties between Russia and Japan would mark not only a breakthrough in their relations but also a significant shift in Northeast Asia's political… — Fiona Hill Copy Share
In the instance of Iran for Russia, Iran is a very important counterweight to the Sunni Muslim powers in the Gulf, but Russia's always… — Fiona Hill Copy Share
The idea is that Putin-Trump would be a win-win for the Kremlin, as they have mutual interests and alliances. — Fiona Hill Copy Share
You could say that by standing up to Russia, the U.S. is finally getting some balls. — Fiona Hill Copy Share
So with President Obama, he's a very different style. Very thoughtful, posed. — Fiona Hill Copy Share
Because the more you engage with someone who is spreading untruths, the more validity you give to those untruths. — Fiona Hill Copy Share
I grew up poor with a very distinctive working-class accent. In England in the 1980s and 1990s this would have impeded my professional advancement.… — Fiona Hill Copy Share
I am very confident based on all of the analysis that has been done - and, again, I don't want to start getting into… — Fiona Hill Copy Share
