You’d think no one had tried to work with Russian President Vladimir Putin before. Every time President-elect Trump sides with Moscow’s hard man, his supporters rush to tell us that the Cold War is over, that successive Western leaders have encircled and humiliated Russia, that we should be working together against Islamist terrorism and so on. Putin’s admirers in Europe, including Nigel Farage and Marine Le Pen, take the same line.

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