Ted Galen Carpenter
For a brief period in April, it appeared that the campaign that
Democrats and neo-conservative Republicans were waging for a
comprehensive investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged
collusion with the Russian government to influence the 2016
presidential election had peaked and was beginning to ebb. The
Trump administration’s decision to launch missile strikes against a
Syrian air base despite Russian President Vladimir Putin vehement
objections to the assault on his ally, quieted accusations that
Trump was Putin’s puppet. Indeed, hawks in both parties praised Trump for taking action in
Syria, and the president’s supporters at Fox News and elsewhere
contended that the U.S. attack discredited the notion that …read more
Source: Cato Institute