How the GOP Fell in Love With Putin’s Russia

New York Times: “It’s almost impossible to overstate the magnitude of this pivot.”

Said Sasha Havlicek, the chief executive of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue: “If, in fact, we are witnessing a total ideological shift of America away from its post-World War II role as guarantor of the international order and an alignment with Putin and other authoritarian nationalists against the old allies that constituted the liberal world order, there couldn’t be anything more dramatic than that.”