Desire Quote by Fiona Hill

Russia should join the international coalition against Islamic State. It is absurd that we are intervening on the side of the Shiites in a…

— Alexei Navalny

On Putin's order, Russia intervenes in Syria not to fight terrorists but to abet the war crimes of the Assad regime. Russian bombers deliberately…

— John McCain

Putin operates like a super PAC, taking advantage of opportunities for negative campaigning. The purpose is to show that the U.S. has no moral…

— Fiona Hill

Putin has the ability to advance his interests in many different ways. Sometimes tactical diplomacy can help.

— Fiona Hill

Part of the people here are interested in the same thing that Putin is interested in: Putin wants to have America as an enemy.…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Russians don't want to fight ISIS in Syria. They want to leave that to us. Aside from that, I don't know what are the…

— Michael McFaul

“When the American president and his national security adviser speak of fighting terrorism alongside Russia, what they are proposing to the American people is…

— Timothy Snyder

In a sense, the central problem in U.S.-Russian relations has been a form of psychological projection. Putin views foreign policy as a means of…

— Tom Malinowski

Moscow has been helping the Northern Alliance because "the Taliban was openly supported by Pakistan... until last week, Pakistani servicemen had taken part in…

— Sergei Ivanov

It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics.

— George Packer

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

Russia has a common interest in confronting radical Islamic terrorism and especially ISIS. And if we have opportunities to work together I think President…

— Mike Pence