It's easy to look back on those strange days at the end of September 2003 and identify the warnings signs about Putin and Russia that American policy… - Rachel Maddow

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It's easy to look back on those strange days at the end of September 2003 and identify the warnings signs about Putin and Russia that American policy makers missed. But it would be unfair to them, and unfair to history, to do so without recognizing that the way things turned out was not inevitable. There really was the spore of a bright, new future in 2003, and it is certainly true that Russia itself had the resources and the capability to go in another direction. That things turned out as they did is a tragedy, a sprawling but explicable tragedy. And it is not Russia's alone.

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Rachel Anne Maddow (born April 1, 1973) s an American television news program host and liberal political commentator.

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