WASHINGTON: Donald Trump has ordered an unprecedented expulsion of Russian officials and warned the Kremlin needs to change, a setback for his courtship of Vladimir Putin, but perhaps not its end.
On the face of it, the latest iteration of Washington’s endless “reset” of relations with Moscow is in serious trouble.
Having wooed Putin for the better part of two years, the 71-year-old US president on Monday expelled 60 alleged Russian spies.
True to Trump’s embrace of superlatives, that was the largest single expulsion of Russians or Soviet intelligence officers on record, according to one senior official.
Trump also ordered the closure of the …read more
Source: theSun
