Paul
Goble
Staunton, January 30 – In case
anyone thinks that Vladimir Putin is not convinced that he is going to get
everything he wants from Donald Trump – an end to sanctions, deference to
Russia’s claim of a sphere of influence over the former Soviet space, and much
else -- a Russian television broadcast last evening should convince them of
that fact.
On his weekly program, Dmitry
Kiselyov, the Russian host who not so long ago talked about Russia’s ability to
reduce the United States to a pile of radioactive rubble, positively reviewed the
Trump Administration and declared that Russia and the US have “always
cooperated in difficult times” (rusmonitor.com/pavel-pryanikov-dmitrijj-kiseljov-napominaet-chto-rossiya-i-ssha-v-slozhnye-momenty-vsegda-byli-druzyami-i-soyuznikami.html).
Given the central role of state
television in Putin’s regime, such a statement was clearly intended to send two
important signals to Russians: Russian-American cooperation is back now that
Trump is president, and this cooperation will take the form first and foremost
of a combined military effort against ISIS in the Middle East.
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