The decision about Nord Stream 2 sanctions assessed against a greater backdrop of international relations points to a failure of Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy direction that aims to see Russia returning to the center of world affairs.
Have Democrats lost perspective, forgetting just how unpopular progressive policies such as open borders and defunding the police are to most Americans?
If anything of substance is to come out of the forthcoming summit, the White House needs to understand what it wants the relationship to be and what that relationship can be, what tools it has at its disposal (and just as important, the limitations of its power).