You are still crying Wolf (Trump)

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Foxboy wrote:

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It is. At least, it's not very likely to be the 80s cartoon villain levels so many seem to think it is. It's probably far more banal, like mutual ego-stroking between Putin and Trump.

So many people online right now are forgetting or never knew Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

With Putin, malice is a perfectly acceptable default setting. He wants the USSR back and a fractured NATO would suit him just fine. Trump in the White House would make the US too chaotic to respond to any adventures of his and would  suit him very well.
While we are on the subject:
The FBI denied a White House request to deny contracts between Trump campaign the the Russians.
 
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