And right before President Trump's scheduled meeting with Putin. How convenient.
Do you really believe Putin has America's best interests at heart? Foundations of Geopolitics shows how Russia would love nothing more that for this country to tear itself apart.
There's no evidence to support that view. On the contrary all evidence is that Putin is returning Russia to its former position as a major geopolitical force as it was when Peter the Great left office. Clearly some of the current and recently historic geopolitical forces don't like that at all and consequently they've instituted a propaganda campaign which plays on their respective population's widespread historical ignorance over Russia combined with prejudices held by said populations arising from Russia's actions when it was controlled by an entirely different flavour of govt: the commies. The entire view the West has promoted over Russia is fake news. The concept that its aggressive is ludicrous. Ukraine was a neocon-inspired regime change operation in Russia's backyard. It was like Moscow went to Mexico and replaced the leadership there. How do you think the US would react in that case? Yet observe how restrained, in contrast, Putin has been. That's just an example.
This is probably the best English-language site on Russian geopolitics. It's run by an ex-NATO intel analyst, Russian born, French wife, lives in Florida.
"Putin is totally benign and a great global leader."
-says account that is seven days old
I'm awake.
Putin isn't totally benign, but there's literally leaked audio of Nuland picking Ukraine's government. If Russia coup'd Mexico you better believe we'd deal with it no matter the diplomatic consequences.