NEWSLINK Washington Post: The U.S. continues to send the wrong message to Russia
It has been a week since Secretary of State John F. Kerry emerged from eight hours of meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his foreign minister to say that the two sides had agreed to make a new effort to cooperate in resolving conflicts in Ukraine and Syria and completing a nuclear accord with Iran. The trip represented yet another bet by the Obama administration that it can cut deals with Mr. Putin without betraying U.S. interests or allies or capitulating to the Russian ruler and his imperialist agenda.