Gabe Lipton is the Associate Editor of Signal responsible for editorial execution of GZERO Media's written newsletter content. He holds degrees in Government and Economics from Wesleyan University, where he was a member of the international economic honors society, and is studying German in his spare time. At the age of 11, the Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe) confirmed (in person) his take on an important political question of the day, forever sealing his fate as a close observer of global politics. His Spidey powers leave much to be desired.
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin may be able to form, as the US president likes to say, a “great relationship” – but at the popular level there is still little love lost between the American and Russian publics. Where once popular perceptions of each other were overwhelmingly positive, the optimism that characterized the early post-Soviet years has steadily given way to mutual suspicion. Here’s how it’s all gone (down) over the past quarter of a century.
