“Demonizing Putin is not a foreign policy,” Barr writes in a copy of his forthcoming book obtained by The Daily Beast
writes that “demonizing [Vladimir] Putin is not a foreign policy,” nor “the way grown-ups should think.”, viewed by The Daily Beast, the hatchet man writes that an imminent conflict with China means America should try to find “a more constructive relationship” with Russia.
“The threat posed by Russia has changed dramatically since the fall of the Soviet Union,” Barr offers. “The Russian Federation of today has roughly half the population the old Soviet Union had, and less than half the U.S. population. The larger Warsaw Pact countries—Poland, the former East Germany—are now part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization . The combined defense budgets of the three big Western European countries—Britain, France, and Germany—are comparable to Russia’s.
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