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TomA's avatar

None of this is rocker science. Russia's primary objective in negotiations with the US is elimination of the threat of nuclear armed missiles located 5 minutes flight time from Moscow. That's like holding a negotiation with someone who is holding a loaded 45 caliber pistol 2 inches from your forehead. The US would not accept this situation if it were reversed. Trump knows and will comply, but he wants something in return. That is what's being negotiated now. The only losers in this are the Europeans, who aren't getting any of the resource booty they have been scheming for.

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The Elder of Vicksburg's avatar

I will be forever stunned by the sheer arrogance and stupidity of the neocons/americans who thought they could just swoop in and plunder Russia like it was Haiti. I was in Russia for a bit after the Soviet Union collapsed. the way the americans acted toward the Russians sickens me to this day. not one bit of empathy for what they had endured under communism.

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