[pgkdan]

One subject on which Trump and McMaster could soon differ is Russia. McMaster shares the consensus view among the U.S. national security establishment that Russia is a threat and an antagonist to the United States, while the man whom McMaster is replacing, retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, appeared to view it more as a potential geopolitical partner.

Trump in the past has expressed a willingness to engage with Russia more than his predecessor, Barack Obama.

So I suppose you can't recognize that Russia is an antagonist while attempting to engage with them at the same time? Donald Trump is nobody's fool. He's fully able to walk and chew gum at the same time.

[momincombatboots]

Then why is a RussIan spyship 30 miles off the coast of CT. Why does it feel like history with tanks at the Polish border?

[xzins]

This is the intriguing part to me:

"John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, would be asked to serve the administration in another capacity, Trump said.

"He has a good number of ideas that I must tell you I agree very much with," Trump said of Bolton, who served in Republican President George W. Bush's administration."

I truly wonder what office that will be.

An ambassadorship to Russia or China?

Replace Comey at FBI with Bolton? Bolton is a first class lawyer. Comey is self-serving and known to be.