Reducing the diplomatic staff of the Russian Federation in the US will undermine the Kremlin's ability to spread propaganda, lies, and also to some extent help to protect the country from another Russian intervention in the elections. Such an opinion in the final public speech in the rank of US presidential adviser Donald Trump on national security expressed Herbert McMaster.

"This will help protect our democratic institutions and processes, as these Russian officers organize powerful propaganda, disinformation and political sabotage," he said..

According to the general, Putin "can believe that he is winning" in this new form of war, and consider that "our free nations are weak and will not react to his provocations". "He's wrong," McMaster added..

In his opinion, the US never forced the Russian Federation to "pay a high price" for its aggression, but "we can help Putin understand what a deadly mistake he made".

March 23, 2018 Trump fired McMaster, taking in his place the former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton, who will begin work on April 9.

Source: LIGA.