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US Elite Conflicted on Teaming Up With Russia in War on Terror

US policymakers are divided and uncertain whether and under what circumstances they should team up with Russia in fighting terrorism, analysts told Sputnik.

"The United States can no longer act as though there is a unipolar world, but there is something deeper going on; the fight against terrorism. There seems to be a deep schizophrenia in the ruling elite here in the US," John Walsh, a US scientist and political commentator, told Sputnik on Monday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin repeated his support for cooperation with the United States in the global struggle against terrorism in a national telecast on Thursday.

There were a growing number of indications that different departments and groups of policymakers in the US government were acting independently of each other and sometimes at cross purposes in dealing with Islamist groups, Walsh observed.