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How to ease Europe’s fears about the new U.S.-Russia relationship

VLADIMIR PUTIN IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN INTERNATIONAL relations. He constantly scans the horizon for opportunities to inflict damage on his biggest strategic target: the transatlantic alliance. He calculates that anything he does to damage it increases Russian influence and opportunity in the region. It’s working.

As both Congress and the White House wrestle with the U.S.-­Russia relationship, we should spare a moment to consider how it all looks from overseas, where our credibility as a global force for good

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