A Grand Bargain With Russia Would Be a Disaster

Trump is apparently contemplating a “reverse Nixon”—a dramatic rapprochement with Moscow that would leave Beijing out in the cold.

Trump administration will try to “break’ Putin ’s alliances with China , Iran , and North Korea —apparently by offering Russia a deal better than anything it can get from them.

Russia is deeply dependent on China in just about every way that matters, writes Julian Zelizer .

Frida Ghitis: Despite MAGA talk of American decline, the U.S. economy is thriving, and its military remains strong.

Ghitis says Putin 's empire has struggled to subdue a foe that has less than a third of its population and merely a fraction of its natural resources.

She says Putin has made his own strategic priorities eminently clear: He wants to keep territory he has illegally occupied in Ukraine ; he wants to control the government in Kyiv ; and he wants Ukraine neutral.

FP 's Christian Caryl is the former Moscow bureau chief for Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report .

Caryl: The Russian dictator has painted himself into a corner. Trump would be a fool to help him out of it, he says.

He says it's not unprecedented for a powerful country to simply shoot itself in the foot.