What's unusual about a direct line to Moscow? The US and Moscow have always had a hotline - popularly referred to as the Red Phone, even though it wasn't a telephone. This enabled the two superpowers to avoid nuclear catastrophe during the Cold War.
Mr Kushner appears to be proposing a similar set-up. But what is unusual is that this would be a channel using Russian hardware. This would have been outside official communications normally used by a team about to assume the leadership of the US - meaning US leaders were using Russian channels instead of their own.
Mr Kushner appears to be proposing a similar set-up. But what is unusual is that this would be a channel using Russian hardware. This would have been outside official communications normally used by a team about to assume the leadership of the US - meaning US leaders were using Russian channels instead of their own.
