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“A U.S. president who is elected amid controversy and recrimination, reviled by a large segment of the electorate, and mired in domestic crises will be hard-pressed to forge a coherent foreign policy and challenge Russia.”

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The Cold War was obviously driven by a very intense ideological struggle that was very clearly defined.

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Outside of the Moscow elite and a very small urban elite, Russia is one great big blue-collar country.

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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…

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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.

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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…

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For Putin, Syria is all too reminiscent of Chechnya. Both conflicts pitted the state against disparate and leaderless opposition forces, which over time came…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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The idea is that Putin-Trump would be a win-win for the Kremlin, as they have mutual interests and alliances.

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You could say that by standing up to Russia, the U.S. is finally getting some balls.

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So with President Obama, he's a very different style. Very thoughtful, posed.

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I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy.

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The Hillary Clinton foreign policy has cost America thousands of lives and trillions and trillions of dollars, and unleashed ISIS across the world.

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