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“It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so
highly respected within his own country and beyond,” Trump said, as
quoted by The Hill. “I have always felt that Russia and the United
States should be able to work well with each other towards defeating
terrorism and restoring world peace, not to mention trade and all of the
other benefits derived from mutual respect.”

“… and mr putin is gonna show me how to throw my political enemies and critics in the press in jail too once i’m president”

I watched a long talk by Stephen Cohen, emeritus of Princeton and NYU, speaking at the Commonwealth something or other yesterday. He is a Russianist. And he is the husband of The Nation editor Katrina vandenbugel. Anyway, he basically said that Trump is the only one who gets it right. No one in the West understands that east Ukraine is married to Russia and can’t be split; and that 30% of the western pro-Europeanists are not really pro-Europeanists at all, but rather fascist ultranationalist. So it would be in our interest to quit demonizing Putin and, like Trump, offer to negotiate.

I thought that—before the sanctions—that was what Obama tried to do, and was roundly scolded for.