President signed the legislation championed by late senator Lindsey Graham last month but has waived the restrictions as they were due to come into effect
Maybe “the West” no longer exists. There’s just the US and then there’s Europe, and each of them is doing their own thing.
I think that gives Trump too much credit. Trump is at his core really stupid and really insecure. Putin gets to run his country like Trump wants to run ours. Trump looks up to Putin like a little kid looks up to his big brother. Everything he does is to gain the attention and approval of big brother.