With Trump In Office, Did The Kremlin Get More Than It Bargained For?
The Kremlin never hid its preference for Donald Trump and celebrated his election victory. But there seem to be mixed feelings in Moscow at what has happened since Trump took office.
by Lucian Kim
May 21, 2017
3 minutes
When Donald Trump was running for president, the Kremlin didn't make a secret that it preferred him to Hillary Clinton.
The thinking in Moscow was that Clinton would follow President Obama in trying to diminish Russia's role in the world. Trump, on the other hand, promised not only to be friendlier to Russia, but to turn established U.S. foreign policy on its head.
Now it might seem that Russian President Vladimir Putin's wildest dreams have come true: Trump
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