[TigersEye]

I wouldn’t assume that this ruins our relationship with Russia. How good was it anyway? This just clarifies the ground from which Trump is willing to negotiate from. Treaties will not be broken and barbarity will not be tolerated.

Workable relationships have to begin on a firm foundation and negotiations always start by laying out terms.

[RC one]

From the article: Russia, which has been bombing rebel-held areas in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad since September 2015, condemned the strikes, saying Washington's action would "inflict major damage on US-Russia ties", according to Russian news agencies. In its first public response to the attack, the Kremlin labelled the US move as "aggression against a sovereign state in violation of international law". "Washington's step will inflict major damage on US-Russia ties," Dmitry Peskov, a spokesperson of Russian president Vladimir Putin, was quoted as saying.

Our relationship with Russia is now shot to shiite.