[John Robinson]

Maybe reaching... I’m thinking Russia could be in a position to be more supportive of US interests than the wonks in DC can accept. The reason: China, a country fast becoming the second Super (if not already.) I would be weary of having such in my immediate neighborhood, esp while in a diminished state of power that Russia is currently. If Russia itself cannot be a super again in the forseeable future then it seems they’d want to both contain the growth of the nearby up-and-coming and keep the only existing super on the otherside of the world. I can see Putin’s strategy for a Trump presidency as it is possible Trump would both wind-down or scale-back NATO and keep China busy on the negotiating table/inhibit Chinese expansion. Clinton will almost certainly be the opposite of this.

Still don’t like the idea of a foreign nation playing games with our election (if that is ever found to be the case.) It is just as easy to see Clinton going all-in with the “mean” Russia “bad” Trump hand when the flop comes down as a DNC cyber break-in. Sincerely believe they do not have evidence to link it to Russian ops.

[Founding Father]

I think the story lays it out pretty well; WaPo is leading the "gang" (includes the Big defense group going insane at the thought of Trump making countries pay us to defend them...the countries won't of course because they can't, not to mention pulling back from NATO somewhat, and even the UN folks that know we'll cut our contributions significantly with a Trump presidency), with this made up story to bring down Trump.

Ha! As if the Dem side of the uni-party needs to do anything at all, with the RINOs (sorry, they are the republican side of the uni-party, it's the smaller gov't folks that are the true Rinos) doing all they can.

[Rome2000]

Well reasoned insight.

What happens in the next year will determine the fate of the USA over the next 75 years.