On Friday evening, Donald Trump handed Vladimir Putin another reason to smile. The US President waived sweeping sanctions against Russia that Congress had passed and he himself signed into law barely a month ago.
The Act, named after the late Senator Lindsey Graham, would have allowed tariffs of up to 100 per cent on goods from the biggest buyers of Russian oil and gas, with China and India chief among them.
It could have hit Putin’s war chest hard. So why did Trump tear it up?
Not grand strategy. As Lord Ricketts, a former diplomat and national security adviser, told BBC Radio 4’s
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