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Walter Russell Mead: Trump Isn't Sounding Like a Russian Mole
2018-07-15
h/t instapundit
[TheAmericanInterest] ...there can be little doubt that Trump’s core global strategy is intended to destroy any illusions in Moscow that Russia is a peer competitor of Washington’s.

...If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:
Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran

...In other words, if President Trump really is a Putin pawn, his foreign policy will start looking much more like Barack Obama’s. Will the New York Times and the Washington Post really have the brass to call Trump a traitor for pursuing a mix of policies which came right out of Obama’s playbook?
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#1  Published almost 18 months ago, but still applicable.
Posted by: Bobby   2018-07-15 15:44  

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