toomuchtime_
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This shouldn't be too hard to do. Putin wants to keep his military bases in Syria and for NATO to keep off of his borders. In fact, Gorbachev liberated the Soviet satellited states on the promise from Bush41 that the US would prevent them from joining NATO, but then Clinton rampaged into the WH fresh from chasing tail around the Ozarks and immediately had 12 of them join NATO, setting the stage for the deteriorating relations between the US and Russia. Trump will have to find a way to satisfy Putin's very real security concerns about NATO on its borders in the same way Bush41 did with Gorbachev to end the conflicts in eastern Europe.Finally the US will have a sane Russia policy and the possibility will exist for the first time of agreements between the US and Russia to end the war in Syria and the conflicts in eastern Europe. Trump has not yet even taken office and already the world is in better shape because he won the election.Yes, not even sworn in yet, and Putin has shown more respect to Trump, than the Manchurian muslim was able to garner in 8 years, and we are walking away from possible war with Russia, that the 2 digit IQ'd dimwit in the WH seemed to be setting us up on a collusion course....Has anyone seen the Obomanatoon REDLINE lately?...President Trump for the WIN!
President-elect Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin have vowed to tackle ISIS together after holding breakthrough talks on the telephone.
Less than a week after the billionaire’s election, the Kremlin said Putin called Trump yesterday to begin negotiations over how best to tackle to terrorism.
The Russian is reported to have said he ready for dialogue with the US “on the basis of mutual respect, non-intervention into each other’s internal affairs”.
According to the news agency Kremlin, Putin and Trump have agreed to “work to channel bilateral relationships into constructive cooperation, to combine efforts to tackle international terrorism and extremism, and to continue contact by telephone and to work towards meeting in person”.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
Of course ... as always, it's easier to say it than it is to do it.
The devil is in the details ...
There is room to negotiate. As long as Assad stays in office Russia will have its bases, but it is costing Russia more than it wants to spend in both blood and treasure to keep those bases. If the US were to back Russia's long term leases of the land the bases are on if Russia drops its support for Assad and agrees to help stabilize Syria once he is gone, everyone wins except Iran and the terrorists.
If Trump and Putin can establish a relationship of mutual trust and goodwill as Bush41 and Gorbachev did, the whole world will benefit.