Trump’s loose talk on Russia threatens to undo a century of hard-won geopolitical gains

Trump’s loose talk on Russia threatens to undo a century of hard-won geopolitical gains

In 1919, the US deported 249 alleged “radicals” on a military ship to the Soviet Union. It was a drastic measure, ordered by US president Woodrow Wilson’s administration as a Red Scare swept through the West following Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution. Since then, especially during the Cold War but even after it ended, no American politician…