BuzzFeed - To win the GOP nomination these days, strong opposition to the Russian president is practically a prerequisite. Bush will visit three countries most agitated by Russian power ? and use the trip to speak out sharply against Putin. Joe Raedle / Getty Images BERLIN â If all goes according to plan, Jeb Bush will end this week with a superlative worthy of a campaign bumper sticker: Vladimir Putin's least favorite Republican. Beginning with a saber-rattling speech here Tuesday, the presidential contender is set to kick off a carefully choreographed five-day tour of European capitals â from Berlin, to Warsaw, to Tallinn, Estonia â designed to place him in meetings and photo-ops with some of the continent's leading critics of Putin's Russia. Aides say the itinerary will help Bush lay out his vision for a more aggressive American stance against Russia, and illustrate what he considers to be the failures of President Obama's weak-kneed response to Putin&
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