After Donald Trump’s performance at last summer’s press conference in Helsinki with Russian President Vladimir Putin, many of the U.S. president’s fellow Republicans were alarmed. One, however, was encouraged: Senator Rand Paul. A few weeks later, Paul arrived in Moscow seeking dialogue with his Russian counterparts. Now Paul is enlisting U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman Jr. to help convince his American colleagues of the virtues of U.S.-Russian cooperation.
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A Russian flag flies next to the US embassy building in Moscow on Oct. 22, 2018.
