I contend that getting Trump elected will result in American lives being saved.
The point of the original statement, that you chose to dismiss as absurd, had little to do with saving lives and every thing to do with alliances. That is why I contend that statement was neither absurd or incorrect. It purpose was to show the benefit of alliances. What might have happened if that Russian alliance had been maintained and the Cold War had never happened? We will never know, but we do know the consequences of severing that alliance immediately following WWII. It was anything but beneficial.