Putin has been thrust unexpectedly onto center stage in the U.S. Her lasting conclusion, as she would acknowledge, was that “strength and resolve were the only language Putin would understand.” But the memo succinctly captured a personal view about Putin on the part of the future Democratic presidential nominee: a deep skepticism, informed by bitter experience, that will be likely to define U.S.-Russian relations if Clinton is elected. It was harsh advice coming from the administration’s top diplomat, and Obama would ignore key parts of it. Decline his invitation for a presidential summit.” “Don’t flatter Putin with high-level attention. “Don’t appear too eager to work together,” Clinton urged President Obama, according to her recollection of the note in her 2014 memoir.
In one of her last acts as secretary of state in early 2013, Hillary Clinton wrote a confidential memo to the White House on how to handle Vladimir Putin, the aggressive and newly reinstalled Russian president. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attends a bilateral meeting with President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a 2012 Group of 20 summit in Los Cabos, Mexico.
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