Vali Nasr: Trump’s Giving ‘Essentially Gifts on a Silver Platter to Putin’ with Russia Talk

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NASR: "The way he talks about cooperating with Russia on Syria or on Europe, the way he downplays the importance of NATO, that he’s even against the European Union -- all of these are essentially gifts on a silver platter to Putin. So even if you are Putin, you would calculate that you have two years, four years to push as hard as you can to get as much as you can and in the process, you may actually change the political dynamic within the United States and Europe. And when the dust settles Russia will be in a very different place."