Will Donald Trump get Vladimir Putin (before Maga gets Trump)?

By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor

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You know when the Kremlin is worried about something – it starts talking about nuclear weapons. And so it was, just two days after Donald Trump revealed he had decided to lift his administration’s pause on the supply of US-made weapons to Ukraine, that Vladimir Putin’s…

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