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In reply to the discussion: To the people who keep saying "get over it" about the far-left's sabotage of our nation: [View all]yurbud
(39,405 posts)He's the leader of a country whose interests sometimes conflict with those of our financial elite.
Whether he has a good record on human rights or democracy is immaterial to our foreign policy, or we wouldn't be allies with Saudi Arabia and other countries worse than Russia.
It looks like there is some evidence Trump sought their help in the election and probably stronger evidence of them giving him financial incentives for him to remove sanctions.
I hope we remove Trump.
But I am almost as concerned about what our foreign policy will be once he is gone.
If Pence is on the same page as the financial elite on foreign policy, we could snap right back to the darkest days of the Bush administration.
If Russia did help him, we need a cold-eyed look at why they would do so, and not just scare-mongering.
We have the largest military in the world, and the means to burn any country off the map with nukes. For a country with a much smaller military and economy to mess with our internal affairs, they must have what they think is a very compelling reason. If there are ways to accommodate Russia without jeopardizing our security, we should do so.
Letting the neocons run wild in Central Asia, Central Europe, and the Middle East doesn't help and it cost us a lot of money that would be better spent at home.