The Alaska summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump on Friday, followed by President Trump’s meeting Monday with Volodymyr Zelensky, stunned the world. Commentators railed against what they saw as Mr. Trump’s pusillanimous concessions to Mr. Putin in Alaska. They were then shocked by the U.S. president’s warm welcome to Mr. Zelensky at the White House, and shocked again by the Euro-American lovefest that followed the bilateral summit.
That shouldn’t surprise us. The relationship between Russia and the U.S., like the one between the U.S. and Israel, is important, emotionally charged and widely misunderstood.
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