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The Lights Are on in Washington, but Nobody’s Home

The Lights Are on in Washington, but Nobody’s Home Barack Obama claims that Putin is trying to “recreate the glories of the Soviet empire”. The question is whether this is a genuine misunderstanding or a more purposeful and politically expedient one. Danielle Ryan It’s been nearly a month since John Kerry’s amicable reunion with Vladimir Putin in Sochi, but it might as well have been a decade, because the gulf between what is said in Moscow and what is understood — or more appropriately, misunderstood — in Washington, is as wide as ever. Any predictions that the US was about to change tactics… View Article