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Republicans Are (Almost) Ready for Maximum Pressure on Russia
The epiphany of common sense came late in an otherwise tedious congressional subcommittee hearing, and from a Democrat, Representative Jim Costa. He gets that Republicans and the administration of Donald Trump take pride in exerting 'maximum pressure' on Iran, Costa made clear. But at this 'seminal moment in American and world history,' he asked, 'what about maximum pressure on Russia?'
What about it indeed? The greatest puzzle (among many) about MAGA foreign policy is why Trump refuses to get tough with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who shows no interest in good-faith peace negotiations and is cynically stringing Trump along — 'playing this president like a fiddle,' in the words of Jeanne Shaheen, the ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
