Trump's diplomatic ineptitude dooms better US-Russia ties
His administration is already compromised with concerns over likely conflict of interest.
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MOST American presidents have considered Russia the principal rival and enemy of the United States. Very rarely have they tried to expand diplomatic relations with Moscow.
Now Donald Trump, with the lowest approval rating of any president in 20 years, is trying to improve relations with Russia that has slumped to the status of a second-rate power, in a move that could destabilise the world order.
In contrast, after World War II, Franklin Delano Roosevelt - widely considered the greatest American president who had pulled his country out of the Great Depression and made it the world's foremost economic powerhouse - had sought a partnership with the Soviet Union, then a great power and a close ally of the West, in order to create a peaceful and stable post-war world order.
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