Trump Is Right to Meet Putin - POLITICO Magazine

Trump Is Right to Meet Putin - POLITICO Magazine: 
"President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin today, days after meeting with our NATO allies in Europe. 
Both meetings are important, and both cause confusion among politicians and those who report on them back home.
Foreign policy is difficult. 
It comes in many shades of gray, and those who treat it as a team sport do harm to our safety and to our politics.
Politicizing international affairs is a dangerous game, but that hasn’t stopped far too many in Washington, who seem to have forgotten that a vital part of keeping America safe and secure is avoiding war through strong and consistent diplomacy, from playing politics. 
One way they do that is to insist we not meet with or speak openly to our adversaries on the world stage.
I disagree. 
Dialogue is especially important when hundreds of millions of lives are at stake, as is the case in relations between the United States and nuclear-armed Russia. 
So I applaud Trump for both chiding our NATO allies and greeting its expansion with skepticism, and I applaud him for sitting down with Putin. 
We should be doing more of such self-examination and dialogue..."
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