Donald Trump doesnt know it yet, but Vladimir Putin is going to dump him - By Jonathan Capehart

[DonViejo]

MARRAKESH, Morocco — President-elect Donald Trump’s kind words and admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin seem painfully naive. Moscow’s interference in the U.S. presidential elections makes their bromance even more unnerving. Yet Trump’s pro-Russian posture is neither unprecedented nor likely to last very long.

Kurt Volker and I were on one of those night-owl sessions on Thursday at the German Marshall Fund’s “Atlantic Dialogues” conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, where great stuff is said because it is off the record. But the former U.S. ambassador to NATO and current executive director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University gave such a simple explanation of the relationship between the United States and Russia that I asked him if he would tell me on the record. Volker obliged.

Every president that I’ve had a chance to work with started their administration with some form of a reset. Whether it’s George H.W. Bush and not wanting to be triumphalist over the fall of the Soviet Union. We had Bill Clinton and the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission. We had Barack Obama doing the famous reset. George Bush, you remember, looked into [Putin’s] eyes in Slovenia. So, it’s no surprise that Donald Trump wants to start out doing a reset.

The second thing is that every president has done this primarily because they think it was their predecessor that screwed things up. So they think, “Well, I can do a better job. I can handle this. I know these people. I can make this work.” And it turns out that the problem isn’t actually their predecessor. The problem is the Russians.

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[CentralMass]

1. After the hack job he did on Bernie in the primary, i question Capeharts integrity.

[exboyfil]

3. Yes. He never answered for that

Still I see it playing out the way he outlines. Right now I keep hearing how Iran is an ally of Russia so we will be militarily hands off with them. I don't see that situation holding. An Iranian war that disrupts oil production in Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the other Arab oil producing countries will be a boon to Russia. It will also expend our blood and treasure in another costly war, and fragment our country even further - all pluses for the Russians.

It might not happen this term, but I will laugh my head off when Russia nationalizes the Exxon investment in their country. Good luck getting anyone to back their property rights after what is to come.

[Motley13]

2. Putin to trump, pay your loan or you are dead

screw your country, comrade.

T to P, no problem, I got those assholes to elect me. You will have all your rubles back with interest, the USA is very wealthy, until we screw them all. Want to live in the White House, winter is a little less severe, XXOOO's, drumpf

[0rganism]

4. "sorry Donald, he's just not that into you"

the tweetstorm will be EPIC

[JenniferJuniper]

5. Trump is playing with fire...

This isn't a reality show.

This is all going to end very badly. For him, certainly. For us, almost certainly.

[JI7]

6. one huge difference is that Trump's position is more about his debts

And not about actual foreign policy views.

[dubyadiprecession]

7. Putin will let Trump down?

The spider (Putin) will bite the frog (pepe the trump) and they will both drown.