Normally this would be a bottom story of the day: The United States and Britain are working together to pressure Russia into withholding support from a bad actor in the Middle East. That's about as conventional as geopolitics ever gets. It transcends partisan changes in either or both parties' leadership roles, and it hasn't even been changed all that much by the collapse of communism - an event that is astonishingly approaching 30 years old.
But it the bizarro world of political narratives left over from the 2016 election, it's bizarrely seen as odd news:
