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Straws in the wind for a reset in US-Russian relations

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I do not understand our government’s antagonism towards Russia. Diplomacy shouldn’t be about who we’re going to invite over for dinner. It must be about what’s in the best interests of our nation. No one can convince me that what we’ve been doing with Russia is in our best national interests.

The receding specters of a war involving North Korea and a US-Russia confrontation in Syria. The sound of cracking ice in the frozen conflict in Ukraine. Russia and the United States bidding farewell to “tits-for-tat.” Is this the dawn of a brave new world?

You might be skeptical, but it’s possible to draw positive conclusions from the two meetings, on successive days, between US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week. These meetings, in fact, bode well for another meeting ahead, between presidents Valdimir Putin and Donald Trump, this time in Danang, Vietnam, on the sidelines of the November 11-12 APEC summit. Read more here.