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Would have happened under Trump.

The President was fooled on multiple occasions by his national security team into taking action against Russia based on false or misleading "intelligence", so its quite possible he would have taken the bait again here.

For all his rumblings on foreign policy Trump was a fairly easy mark, and I'm not convinced he didn't prefer it that way.

[Zhang Fei]

[The President was fooled on multiple occasions by his national security team into taking action against Russia based on false or misleading “intelligence”, so its quite possible he would have taken the bait again here.

For all his rumblings on foreign policy Trump was a fairly easy mark, and I’m not convinced he didn’t prefer it that way.]

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He wasn’t fooled. Anyone who has more than a passing familiarity with Russian history knows it was a threat long before the Bolsheviks, simply from the way it expanded relentlessly. I don’t know anything about the curriculum at the military school Trump attended, but I expect military history to be one of the subjects well-covered, and Russia’s wide-ranging additions to the empire to be at least touched upon. It’s not for nothing that Russia is still, today, almost the size of the next two largest nations *combined*.