NEWSLINK: “Trump and Putin at Hamburg: Towards Reset 2.0?” – Russian and Eurasian Politics/ Gordon Hahn

“It is perhaps ironic and at the same time just that the first meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin occurred in Germany at the G-20 summit in Hamburg. After all it is there that the Cold War began to unwind with the peaceful fall of the Berlin wall. It is also there in a sense that the hope of a ‘common European home’ from Vancouver to Vladivostok was crushed by NATO’s decision to expand beyond the newly re-united Germany, leading to presently dangerous security dilemma between Russia and the West–the poorly labeled ‘new cold war.’ …”