As a Russian leader. do you want to deal with a sociopath and pathological lying criminal, or do you want to deal with someone like Trump, who may best you in a fair battle of wits?
“It’s an interesting question.
As a Russian leader. do you want to deal with a sociopath and pathological lying criminal, or do you want to deal with someone like Trump, who may best you in a fair battle of wits?”
Me, I wouldn’t want to deal with someone like that. I’d rather deal with a rational, cool, calculating person who is doing the same for his country that I’m doing for mine. There is definitely common ground between our nations - frankly, we should be natural allies, with only the ideology of Lenin, et al preventing that during most of the 20th Century - and so long as we both stay on our side of a reasonably agreed to line, there won’t be any big problems.
If’n I were Putin, I’d release ALL of this stuff, probably in the middle of October. I’d also indicate that it was easy to obtain, and that “we made good use of it.”