Relationships between Russia and the United States will continue to get worse from here, American political analyst James Jatras says.
Jatras, a former Senate foreign policy adviser in Washington, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Saturday after the White House formally invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to Washington in early 2019, an idea that was put on hold in July amid anger in the US over the prospect of such a summit.
The invitation was announced Friday by US National Security Adviser John Bolton during a news conference in Tbilisi, Georgia.
“We have invited President Putin to Washington,” Bolton said at the news conference.
Bolton held meetings with Putin and other Kremlin officials in Moscow to discuss the US withdrawing from a Cold-War era nuclear weapons treaty.
“Any time there’s prospect that President Trump and President Putin might meet for a summit, I think it is encouraging. I think we have a…