‘Trump Believes That the World Should Be Run by the Great Powers’

Mr. Edsall contributes weekly essays from Washington on politics and demographics.

Events over two days last month — Friday, March 6, and Saturday, March 7 — demonstrated President Trump’s willingness to sacrifice American interests in subservience to President Vladimir Putin of Russia.

On that Friday, the Washington Post reporters Noah Robertson, Ellen Nakashima and Warren P.........

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