Tuesday, July 17, 2018

OPINION_ Don't rush to judgment on the Trump-Putin summit - It will take months to clearly assess

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Don't rush to judgment on the Trump-Putin summit - It will take months to clearly assess

By Stephen Yates | Fox News




Trump has been judge harshly based on short-term tactics: Stephen Yates
Former Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Yates on the political fallout from President Trump's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.


President Trump has shown once again that he does not take a conventional approach to diplomacy. As a result, much of the lead-up to his summit and press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday was absolutely alien to those of us who staffed similar events in previous administrations.

The political and media earthquake of dire reactions coming after the summit was also off the charts. All that was missing was Chicken Little screaming hysterically that the sky is falling.

That said, the objective of the summit was absolutely conventional: to explore whether we have sufficient national interest and the leadership will to take a very unhealthy relationship with an important nation out of a well-worn rut and move it in a more constructive direction. Both Democratic and Republican presidents have engaged multiple competitors and even adversaries in summitry in pursuit of nothing more than this basic objective.

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The political and media earthquake of dire reactions coming after the summit was also off the charts. All that was missing was Chicken Little screaming hysterically that the sky is falling.

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My sense is that President Trump has something he wants from Putin (perhaps on Syria) quickly and was in his "deal mode" Monday. That may have affected his public posture in the press conference, when he came across as more forgiving than warranted in terms of known Russian misdeeds.

I believe in the direction President Trump intends to go, if all of the noise in our system (some of it justified) does not overtake the process.

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