Subject: Editors' Picks: The world after Helsinki
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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 21:21:02 -0500 (CDT)

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07/18/2018

Welcome to Editors’ Picks, FP’s daily round-up.

It’s becoming increasingly clear that the Helsinki summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin was historic and consequential—just like other summits in Helsinki—but this time, for all the wrong reasons. Trump publicly rejected the findings of his own intelligence agencies in favor of Putin’s denials of Russian involvement in the 2016 U.S. elections. That sparked a wave of bipartisan rage in the U.S., as well as stern rebukes from America’s national security establishment. An attempt to correct what he said—at one point claiming he meant to say “wouldn’t” instead of “would”—was widely seen as unconvincing. And then on Wednesday, Trump told CBS News that he was tough on Putin—“I left him know we can’t have this”—even though that contradicted his own description of the Helsinki meeting just two days ago.

How to make sense of it all, and what happens next? Here are today’s offerings in Foreign Policy.

1

The spineless: The only people who can stop his sucking up to Russia have lost all their credibility, FP's Stephen Walt writes.

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2

America last: Signs that Trump’s “America first” policy could harm U.S. businesses and curb the United States’ clout around the world surfaced this week in an unexpected place, FP's Lara Seligman reports.

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3

Shameful Silence: The department prepared to criticize Russia’s role in the 2014 downing of a civilian airliner over Ukraine, but the statement was never released, FP's Robbie Gramer and Amy Mackinnon report.

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4

Tarnished Legacy: Trump’s summit with Putin risks tarnishing a legacy of Republican moral leadership on human rights, Suzanne Nossel writes.

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5

Trump on Putin: A history of contradictory statements from 2015 to the present, by FP's Amy Cheng and Humza Jilani

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