Lawmakers and foreign policy experts gathered in Washington, DC on Thursday for a day-long conference to discuss the need for a more restrained American foreign policy.
Just a few hours from Germany, Europe’s largest economy, a Ukrainian soldier is killed every three days defending the territory of his country inside its borders, according to the Trump administration’s special representative to the Ukraine conflict Amb. Kurt Volker.
A professor close to the Kremlin said during a discussion in Washington on Thursday that Russians were laughing at Americans’ hysteria over Russia, echoing President Donald Trump’s tweet this week.
Citing alleged U.S. intelligence intercepts leaked by current and former U.S. officials, the Washington Post reported that Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak told his superiors at the Kremlin that he discussed issues related to the 2016 presidential campaign with Jeff Sessions despite the attorney general’s assertions to the contrary.
President Donald Trump has injected unpredictability into U.S. foreign policy that has unnerved the establishment — but is now bearing some fruit.
President Trump said many times on the campaign trail that he hoped to get along with Russia to deal with challenges such as Islamic terrorism and the conflict in Syria.
