Consider the source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Interest
> Writing in Politico, journalist James Kirchick argued in 2016 while commenting on Donald Trump's Russian relationships that The National Interest and its parent company "are two of the most Kremlin-sympathetic institutions in the nation’s capital, even more so than the Carnegie Moscow Center."
This is, of course, only an opinion. I'm just putting this here so anyone quickly browsing/glancing doesn't have to weed through several links to understand what tomdell means above.