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The Kremlin's Election Meddling Is Paying Off

The president’s policies in office have aligned almost perfectly with Vladimir Putin’s goals.
Source: Andrew Harnik / AP

Fifty-four years ago this month, former President John F. Kennedy delivered the “Strategy of Peace,” a powerful address that captured America’s indispensable leadership at the height of the Cold War. Kennedy knew that our country could not guard against the Soviet Union alone, for he believed that “genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts.”

Incredibly, the man who now leads the United States seems to find himself locked in an alarming and perilous

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