Vanden Heuvel: It’s in ‘America’s National Interest To Have this Working Partnership’ with Russia

RUSH EXCERPT:
VANDEN HEUVEL: "Yes, it sounds like that. I mean, I think — but to step back, I think perhaps even more important, there was a dialogue established at a time of deteriorating U.S./Russian relations. I think it is in America’s national interest to have a working partnership with Russia. And they proposed a cease-fire, we’ve seen cease-fires fail in Syria but thousands of lives may be saved. And the destabilizing refugee flows in Europe, which were a subject at the G20, may be halted. I think you need a working partnership to halt nuclear escalation, nuclear proliferation, to combat terrorism. So I step back. “The Nation” is at the lead of the resistance—"