I'm curious where everyone is at. Answer however you prefer. It would be awesome to get an explanation.
For example:
Is Trump leveraging his ties to Russia to build a better relationship? Maybe to avoid conflict? Reverse Obama's relationship? Etc
How?
What are the effects on American foreign policy? How does this benefit us?
Thank you!
Posted Sep 2, 2019, 6:26 AM UTC
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I think reddit and the left give russia more power than it actually has.
Yes its a nuclear country but its a shithole and russians dont even want to live there. They have the economy of california and they spend most of it on military hardware at an attempt to remain relevant which they fail at.
Personally I am all for being a isolationist country right now. Ignore russia. If the EU wants to let russia invade the countrys around them while they make russia rich buying their energy then thats on them.
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Is Trump leveraging his ties to Russia to build a better relationship? Maybe to avoid conflict? Reverse Obama's relationship?
It looks to me as though he want's to engage with them as a nation, but he has absolutely no problem undermining them in the region or pushing our allies to undermine them. See him chastising Germany for signing a large deal to open up their natural gas imports from Rosatom, Russian govt owned energy producer. See also him pushing NATO nations to move toward US LNG by getting two additional offloading ports in major Eurozone areas. See him also working now with Ukraine through Poland to ween them off of Russian energy dependence. Pushing successfully to increase NATO countries' military spending has also been a good success. Obviously, you can also point to him undermining russia-backed regimes in venezuela and Syria. I'm fine with that, as long as we don't go full land war at any point.
I think these things are all obviously beneficial to our country both in the short and long term. I don't at all mind Trump being cordial with Russia. Antagonism with toothless policy with no thought to American interests is kind of the way of the past, I hope.
IMO he’s attempting to build a better relationship. If Russia wasn’t an adversary then both our countries could slash Defense funding and pump it into something more beneficial.
Russia is a boogeyman. It's 2019. A country with an economy the size of Italy is no threat to us. As Trump repeatedly states, China is the actual threat.
It's in our best interest to be on good terms with as many countries as possible, even ones with horrible governments like North Korea and Russia.
So why are we so concerned with Middle Eastern countries with even smaller economies than that?
They are breeding grounds for terrorists who have attacked us, actively threaten us and our allies, and destabilize regions with oil reserves important to the world economy.
How do you feel about Russia conducting repeated and continuing cyber attacks on us (and other countries) to destabilize them?
The same way I feel about our own government doing it. It's inevitable for large governments.
Fortunately the White House confirmed that no votes were changed and their attacks mostly amounted to phishing and social media shenanigans. Basically only effective on stupid people.
The most extensive cyber warfare waged by a foreign power against the United States is not done by Russia, but by China.
But NSers only care about the molehill because it fits into their anti-Trump narrative.
Do you worry about there being more domestic terrorism than foreign affecting the US?
Are you referring to mass shooters?
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I line up with Obama on this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1409sXBleg
He nails The Russia debate correctly in this video in my opinion.