President Donald Trump seems to have learned the lesson painfully gleaned by all his 21st-century predecessors: You can’t reset US relations with Vladimir Putin.

Late last month, Ratcliffe publicly released a “tradecraft review” of the intelligence community’s assessment in 2016, during the final days of Barack Obama’s presidency, which had concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin interfered in that year’s U.S. election in order to help Trump win.

Republican defense hawks are riding high after a series of events abroad prompted President Donald Trump to lean away from his more quasi-isolationist roots in his first term. His bombing of Iran, increased aggression toward Russia,

Trump’s decision to help Ukraine fight an onslaught of Russian attacks reverses a Pentagon decision to withhold defensive weapons.

Any analysis of Donald Trump's current thinking on Russia risks getting out of date very quickly.Read too much into an individual tweet, post or off-the-cuff comment by the US president, and the danger is that your conclusions will be contradicted by tomorrow's tweet,

CBS News has obtained audio of President Trump from May 2024, where he recounts a chat with Russian President Vladimir Putin about Ukraine and the possibility of the U.S. bombing Moscow if a war ensues.

Trump said at a Cabinet meeting that he was "not happy" with Putin, who he forcefully criticized for a second day in a row.

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