By Dan Lamothe, The Washington Post
BRUSSELS — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Thursday that Russia will need to “prove itself first” before the United States and other members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are willing to let their armed forces collaborate – a complicating factor in cooperation that President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have discussed adopting against the Islamic State in Syria.
Mattis, speaking at NATO’s headquarters in Brussels, told reporters that U.S. and Russian leaders will engage politically, but said the conditions are not right presently for their forces to collaborate. The Pentagon and the Kremlin all …read more
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