[The Russians also announced that U.S. combat troops and supplies now can transit Russian territory to get in and out of Afghanistan.]
This gives the Russians leverage because they can threaten to choke off this pipeline when it suits them. It is likely to become a road with an expensive toll. The power structure of the new Russia is a mafia family with a national flag.
Exactly, I can’t see anything good coming from this. Don’t know if O and his team is just naive or if they know exactly what they’re doing and don’t care. I doubt there’s any former recent president that would have done this, maybe Carter.