"The truth is that even now, Trump holds all the leverage while Putin has none."
Steven Tian
Tian is research director of the Yale Chief Executive and a former analyst for Rockefeller Capital Management. He previously worked in the office of the State Department’s undersecretary for Iranian nuclear nonproliferation.
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