American elites must understand that contacts and consultations are much more valuable than desire to inflict strategic defeat on Russia -

In our small, contradictory, but very interdependent world, there can't be a leading country as a senior ruler of the planet - Medvedev.

He doesn't control most of Syria, not at all

On top of that, he's been a jihadi for a long time. Has he reformed? Is he now a better man?

I would ask the Christians. I would ask the Alawites. Anyone who suffered at his hands as a jihadi — counterterrorism senior director Gorka.