Three months after President Trump took office, one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's diplomats delivered a document to the State Department. That document, obtained by BuzzFeed News, laid out an entire plan for the immediate reset of relations between the U.S. and Russia, across military, diplomatic, and intelligence channels:
By April, a top Russian cyber official, Andrey Krutskikh, would meet with his American counterpart for consultations on "information security," the document proposed. By May, the two countries would hold "special consultations" on the war in Afghanistan, the Iran nuclear deal, the “situation in Ukraine,” and efforts to denuclearize the "Korean Peninsula." And by the time Putin and Trump held their first meeting, the heads of the CIA, FBI, National Security Council, and Pentagon would meet face-to-face with their Russian counterparts to discuss areas of mutual interest. A raft of other military and diplomatic channels opened during the Obama administration's first-term "reset" would also be restored. [BuzzFeed News]
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