When asked recently why he turned up in Moscow last December to help celebrate the tenth anniversary of RT, Michael Flynn rambled about wanting to deliver stern lectures to the Russians. The retired US Lt. Gen.—who now serves as foreign policy adviser to Republican nominee Donald J. Trump—was seated at a gala dinner next to Russian President Vladimir Putin. In an interview with the Kremlin’s propaganda arm, Flynn was anything but downbeat about bilateral ties: “interests…are converging,” he assured RT journalist Sophie Shevardnadze; it’s time “to move forward” together.One of those convergent interests between team Trump and Putin may be …read more
Source: Atlantic Council
