Who better than a Russian specialist to talk about Russia? Although many people don’t know it, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was educated as an expert on Russia at the University of Denver, Moscow State University and Stanford University’s Arms Control and Disarmament Program.
Recently, the former Secretary of State sat down with President Trump for a private meeting, in which the two discussed Russia and the United States’ complicated relationship with its former adversary. Rice is the author of a new book called Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom, which discusses matters such as the U.S. civil rights movement of the 1960s. It contains the question, “Is it really possible that one man could dismantle the institutional basis for democracy in his country in so short a time span?,” which she says refers to Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Although Rice admits she probably knows Vladimir Putin better than she knows President Trump, as a former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, she has the experience to educate Trump about the Russian leader and his country’s current capabilities, its immediate past, its outlook and its goals.
The fact that Trump is listening to Rice may indicate that his thinking on some international matters has changed, or he could simply be soliciting her advice about Russia specifically since she’s one of our government’s foremost experts on that nation. Watch as Fox’s Maria Bartiromo talks to the former Secretary about her perspective on President Trump
