chemirocha wrote:Ngalaka wrote:Who is fooling who!
Putin may only draw some minimal benefit by having a white house that will be a tad bit soft, but I don’t see Russia having that much leverage in the US.
It is worthy of note that Trump cabinet nominees such as General James Mattis is firmly sceptical of Putin, and will be advising Trump on how to check-mate him.
It is almost a given that the US congress is also going to be playing hard ball with regard to Putin, regardless of what Trump may feel.
The Senate with Republicans such as John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio will be pushing for anti Putin stance.
So, there is likely to be clash of policy view-points right inside Trump’s cabinet meetings, while congress will be exerting pressure of its own as well as blocking any such moves by White house.
The long and short of it, it’s going to be an uphill task for Trump to entertain Putin, much less give him a free reign to influence stuff in the US.
Based on his public statements, Trumps foreign policy seems to be brown nosing Israel at the expense of the CIA, NATO and other allies.
For Putin;
as head of state of Russia and a former KGB spy, manipulating Trump should be a trivial exercise.
That's where the likes of McCain and the Congress brigade come in to forestall such moves.
Remember too Congress has such instruments as impeachment open to them.
Cabinet members like Gen Mattis will have resigned while citing 'grave danger' to their Country as the reason.
As regards Israel, my thinking is that Trump is taking that position to spite the Muslim world which he dislikes with a passion! - Of course that is not a smart move.
CIA and NATO, going forward I see him embracing both and striking a fairly good working relationship with them. As a matter of fact Trump himself will be appointing a new CIA boss soon.
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