Trump Bold Enough to Destroy ‘Taboos’, Revive US-Russian Relations
SputnikNews.com
29.12.2016
There are signs emerging that US President Donald Trump is determined to mend fences with Russia, Iranian journalist Peyman Yazdani writes in his op-ed for Resalat. However, it won’t be a walk in the park given the anti-Russian stance among US lawmakers, military and the bureaucracy.
While the US-Russian relationship has nearly reached a deadlock, the emergence of Donald Trump in America’s political arena may create an opportunity for a détente between Moscow and Washington, according to Iranian journalist Peyman Yazdani.
In his article for Resalat, a conservative Iranian daily, the journalist called attention to Trump’s NATO remarks and his pragmatic approach toward US-Russian relations.
In the course of his election campaign Donald Trump had thrown the much discussed Article 5 of the bloc’s founding treaty into question, by saying that Washington would come to its allies’ aid only if those nations have “fulfilled their obligations” to the US.
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