A lot of history here. Also the backstory of a Eurodance hit.
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Vladimir Putin and the nation he leads lurked in the
background of the 2016 campaign for months and months, perhaps even
shaping the outcome of the race. And now Putin’s preferred candidate,
Donald Trump, appears ready to embrace him as an ally — a stunning shift
in US-Russia policy.
This is a source of growing alarm among cosmopolitan-minded liberals. Putin
is bad, they say, and so are the European far-right parties that are
aligning with him — a multicontinental alliance undergirded by
Islamophobic politics that alarms respectable opinion throughout the
West.
And among political elites there really is a fairly firm
consensus that this is, in fact, bad. America’s military leaders have
repeatedly called Russia the greatest threat to the US-led world order.Full Article via VOX
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