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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (44719)	11/12/2017 12:06:35 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 357249

Meddling in Western elections is a low cost, low probability of success venture for Russia. It is also one that has paid off in very significant ways. It has placed strains on relationships all across the EU and may even wind up as a contributing factor in the potential breakup of the EU. The instability of Syria and the resulting refugee crisis has caused the nationalist parties, which have been the freak fringe in most of Europe except for maybe Austria, to have become factors across the EU. I doubt that Putin planned on that when he decided to intervene in Syria, but the timing could not have been better. Blowing up NATO would make it a stunning victory, but that doesn't seem to have been nearly as successful. Although if Trump manages to pull the US out of NATO, that could be a serious blow.