More reaction to the Trump-Putin Helsinki summit

Liberal commentators are highly critical of President Donald Trump for what they see as a cozy relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. But in their fury they’re missing the bigger picture: Trump’s stance on Russia may augur a return to a consensus between the U.S. and Russia on how to run the world....

Fortune
Trump Didn’t Betray America. He Wants to Restore the Old U.S.-Russia Alliance

Geoffrey Roberts |  expert on Russian and Soviet foreign policy, is an Emeritus Professor of History at University College Cork, expert on Russian and Soviet foreign policy, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy

ABC (Australia)
Trump's behaviour not treasonous: Professor Stephen Cohen on the Helsinki Summit

Stephen Cohen | Professor Emeritus of Russian and Slavic studies at New York University, Professor Emeritus of Politics at Princeton University

The American Conservative
Forget Trump: The Military-Industrial Complex is Still Running the Show With Russia

Bruce Fein | partner in the law firm of Fein & DelValle PLLC, formerly associate deputy attorney general and general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission under President Reagan and counsel to the Joint Congressional Committee on Covert Arms Sales to Iran

The Duran
Assessing the Putin-Trump Helsinki summit: neither a breakthrough nor a damp squib but a possible start towards detente

Alexander Mercouris

For Russ
Popov: Putin’s Donbass Proposal Is Targeted Leak, Not Fake News

Edward Popov