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Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian
trump has been trying to do putin a favor by threatening to dismantle nato because he sees personal profit in doing business with moscow. you think he was lying the whole time about wanting better relations with russia? you think actually this whole time he was pretending to be pro-russia in order to improve nato? you really think that? i don't think that
I suspect he really wants better relations with Russia. That doesn't mean he wants a weaker NATO.
I think he strengthened NATO by threatening it.
Back to your issue of Russia, I think it is a third rate country, with a weak economy. Much less of a threat than many people tend to express. They used to be a world threat. Now they're a somewhat dictatorial country without much power to spread dictatorship, Ukraine, etc., notwithstanding. Willing to be convinced otherwise on this, but either way, it doesn't take away from Trump's improvement of NATO.