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Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin waves during a Davis Cup Final tennis match in Moscow. Yeltsin engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union and pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy as the country's first post-Communist president

(AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File)

Analysis & Opinions - The National Interest

Trump Is Your Yeltsin

Aug. 19, 2018
Russian security elites do not respect President Trump. Quite the opposite, those security elites see Trump as a liability for America, which they must exploit while they can, because, based on their own experience, they fully expect American conservative forces to replace Trump as soon as possible. Their assessment of our president influences the risks they are willing to take advancing Russian national interests in the face of American objections.