[Mariner]

“It might also be the latest provocation from a Russian regime that increasingly denies any responsibility for its most destabilizing moves. That’s how Moscow can get away with hacking elections in the United States and other Western countries and invading Ukraine, among other attacks on global order.”

That statement from the article substantially reduces the credibility and characterization of the report.

[RoosterRedux]

That statement struck me as a red flag also, but I thought the topic was timely enough for a thread.

Putin is probing Trump to locate his defensive boundaries.

[DoughtyOne]

You’re right. That was unfortunate.

[AndyJackson]

from a Russian regime that increasingly denies any responsibility for its most destabilizing moves.

Unlike our "stabilizing" moves that threaten the rest of the world. Unfortunately instead of "peace through strength" we have been going around trying to fix the rest of the world while making strategic moves to cut Russia off from the Black Sea (Ukraine and the Crimea).