Wippl in The Boston Herald on Trump’s Russia Policies
Joseph Wippl, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed on the possibility of closer ties with Russia under President-Elect Donald Trump.
Wippl was quoted in a January 8, 2017 article in the Boston Herald entitled “Trump: Only ‘Stupid’ People and ‘Fools’ Think Good Relations with Kremlin Bad.”
From the text of the article:
Keylor’s colleague at Boston University, Joseph Wippl, agreed, calling Trump’s goal if improving relations with Russia “very reasonable.”
“I can’t disagree with him,” Wippl said of Trump’s assertion that a better relationship with Russia is a good thing.
“In the last decade there are some areas where we’ve worked together with Russia, such as in counterterrorism and negotiations with Iran — but there have been some other areas where we’ve been at loggerheads, like Syria and Ukraine,” Wippl said. “We’ll just have to wait and see what this administration does.”
You can read the entire article here.
Wippl is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. He spent a 30 year career as an operations officer in the National Clandestine Service (NCS). Wippl has served overseas as an operations officer and operations manager in Bonn, West Germany; Guatemala City; Luxembourg; Madrid, Spain; Mexico City; Vienna, Austria; and Berlin, Germany. Learn more about him here.