LostArtist wrote on 11/10/16 at 18:14:32:

" ... it's vague enough, but it's on the list

Can you not  work,   Forward ?
Instead of,  Backward?

thumperclone wrote on 11/11/16 at 00:06:10:



He's not even in office and Canada is already willing to renegotiate NAFTA..
I'm anxious to see how many Executive Orders he counters in the first 100 days. Hopefully he has a team of Constitutionally driven people working backwards through the E.O.s, filtering through, and the Unconstitutional, the illegal and Not Beneficial to the lives and freedoms of the People will be countermanded.

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 11/11/16 at 06:11:22:

"He's not even in office and Canada is already willing to renegotiate NAFTA. ...".

That would be like, the day, Reagan was sworn in.
The  Hostage  Takers,
(Who Carter, had been,  'talking' to.)

SUDDENLY, had a  change of Heart ?

thumperclone wrote on 11/11/16 at 00:06:10:

im looking forward to the first hundred days..

And I am as Well !

Paraquat wrote on 11/11/16 at 09:32:40:



during an election? it's a bit odd, I mean, now, how much does Trump owe to Russia? Russia leaked the emails to Wikileaks, which arguably had a chilling effect against Clinton. So does Putin now get to use that as leverage against Trump?  

So next time, can the democratic candidate go smooze European leaders to campaign for them here? Maybe they can get Japan to hack the RNC...  

that's another thing, last I checked, hacking into someone's computer is ILLEGAL, so now you have Trump encouraging Putin to help him out via ILLEGAL behavior.  

oldNslow wrote on 11/11/16 at 09:03:28:


well, we are going to be a lot more friendly to them than before, despite there anti-American ways, I wonder which country we'll let them invade and take next? maybe the rest of Ukraine?

Do we now have to betray our NATO allies?

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Might not be a bad idea to expect  our NATO allies to take a more active role in their own defense and not rely so heavily on the US.

Russia today is not the Soviet Union of the cold war. It may represent a threat to the Eastern European countries on it's border. Or maybe it just would like a  buffer between itself and the western european NATO countries. I don't see that as especially unreasonable. It's debatable how much of an actual threat it is to Western Europe today. It's even more debatable how much of a threat Russia  is to us.


Look, nobody should be surprised that Trump and Putin understand one another. They are both nationalists and neither of them believe in the globalist "one world" claptrap that has infected much of the west. Their  foreign policy decisions will be based on their respective perception of what is in the best interest of their respective countries.When those interests conflict then there will be friction. When they don't, there is no reason for conflict or confrontation.

When grownups, or grownup countries, deal with one another, they understand that it isn't necessary to be pals in order to peacefully coexist.

For all his bellicosity and bluster, I'm quite sure that Trump understands that perfectly well. You think he's never done business with people he didn't necessarily like, as long as the deal benefited both parties.