Is Trump's bromance with Putin over?
The stationing of Russian forces in Venezuela could pose a strategic threat to US interests in the region. And the Donald is under pressure to show he can stand up to the Russian leader
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WHEN it comes to the relationship between Washington and Moscow under President Donald Trump, one can point to a certain paradox: call it the tension between the "medium of the presidency" and the "message of the policy".
On the one hand, if you have been watching and listening to the White House occupant in the last two years or so, Russian President Vladimir Putin is America's greatest friend and ally, a political leader whom President Trump seems to trust and respect even more than he does former US President Barack Obama.
In fact, after his meeting with his Russian counterpart in Helsinki, Finland, last year, President Trump seemed to be convinced by the Russian leader's denials that he had interfered in the 2016 US presidential election despite evidence to the contrary provided to him by his own US intelligence agencies. If anything, President Trump has been heaping praise on the man in the Kremlin and never had a bad thing to say about him.
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