Name:   copperline - Subject:   Here's another one for us to think about Date:   7/28/2016 8:51:18 AM

From today's Atlantic Monthly:

"Mareike Aden, a German reporter, asked whether a President Trump would recognize Crimea as Russian and lift sanctions on Moscow imposed after its 2014 annexation of the Ukrainian territory. The candidate’s reply: “Yes. We would be looking at that.”

That response is likely to spread much cheer through Russia—already buoyant about the prospect of a Trump victory in November. But it could spread at least an equal amount of dread in the former Soviet republics. In a matter of two weeks, the man who could become the next American president has not only questioned the utility of NATO, thereby repudiating the post-World War II security consensus, he also has seemingly removed whatever fig leaf of protection from Russia the U.S. offered the post-Soviet republics and Moscow’s former allies in the Eastern bloc."

OK, Trump supporters.  Is this the position you want your President to take when Russia invades & annexes a European country?