Matthew Kroenig is a columnist at Foreign Policy and vice president and senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and a professor in the Department of Government and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. His latest book, with Dan Negrea, is We Win, They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy and the New Cold War.
U.S. President Donald Trump, followed by deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, after speaking to the press following U.S. military action in Venezuela, at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida.
Putin and Trump stand at podiums on a low stage, about ten feet apart. Putin smiles while Trump is turned to the side to watch him. Journalists are visible in the crowd in front of the stage, holding phones, video cameras, and microphones as they record.
U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk up an escalator as they arrive to the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
