“Putin is fighting ISIS, so he wants good for America.”
No.
The United States and the Russians are still locked into the dynamic that Kennan write about in the Long Telegram.
Russians interests are not the same as ours and our interests are not the same as the Russians.
>Russians interests are not the same as ours and our interests are not the same as the Russians.
I think the problem here is our interests are the not same as the interests of the elites who are running the country. I fully support Russia’s effort to help the Syrian government reestablish control of Syria if for no other reason than the Syrian government protects their Christian minority.