Richard Haass: Europeans Are Worried Trump Is Too Soft on Russia

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HAASS: "Well, not terribly well. The Europeans are worried that Mr. Trump is too benign or soft on Russia. Plus they won't particularly like these sanctions because a lot of them are aimed at European firms. So this will cause cross atlantic tensions or friction as much as anything. It will stir in Moscow. The Russians don't like the sanctions simply because it shows that their preference for Mr. Trump has proved to be counterproductive or at least empty because Congress has stepped into the void. I think the most interesting thing on United States and Russia may be coming up with what we do about Ukraine and whether we're prepared to provide them the sort of defensive arms that the Obama Administration considered but never agreed to send and whether this administration will do it."