NY Mag makes a good case to the affirmative:
From the source:
Trump visited Moscow in July 1987. He stayed at the National Hotel, in the Lenin Suite, which certainly would have been bugged. There is not much else in the public record to describe his visit, except Trump’s own recollection in The Art of the Deal that Soviet officials were eager for him to build a hotel there. (It never happened.)
Trump returned from Moscow fired up with political ambition. He began the first of a long series of presidential flirtations, which included a flashy trip to New Hampshire. Two months after his Moscow visit, Trump spent almost $100,000 on a series of full-page newspaper ads that published a political manifesto. “An open letter from Donald J. Trump on why America should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves,” as Trump labeled it, launched angry populist charges against the allies that benefited from the umbrella of American military protection. “Why are these nations not paying the United States for the human lives and billions of dollars we are losing to protect their interests?”
Wrong sub forum. Reported. Should be conspiracy theories. RIght next to Bigfoot.
What makes you think thanks a conspiracy theory? It's not like not came from gateway pundit. NY magazine is a pretty solid source.
Because it is insane nonsense.
There are many questions concerning Trump's inexplicable actions concerning Russia with zero political will to answer them. The republicans don't want to know and the democrats don't want to be seen to have used our intelligence services against him. Perhaps when Trump is no longer relevant in any way we may finally find out just how bad it was.
Are you prepared to fight wwiii over Estonia?
Are you prepared to just let Russia walk all over us and threaten our allies? Apparently so.
We should not be treaty bound to do shit, we are not actually prepared to do.
During the Cold War, I supported the idea that we would fight a war over West Germany.
But now, over ESTONIA?
That is what we are doing and it is insane.
That is not a reasonable policy.
Yet it is our policy.
NATO expansion was a bad idea, and now we have to leave it asap.
Agreed. Trump initially spoke of dismantling NATO, but he eventually expanded it. Further provoking Russia. He continued O’s numerous and onerous sanctions, then expanded economic sanctions on Russia. He allowed multiple war games to occur along Russia’s borders and US war ships plied the wars of the Black and Baltic Seas, further provoking Russia.
None of this is known to Americans who only consume establishment controlled media. It’s dangerous when our media lies and deceives the American people.
IMO, he realized that it was not politically possible to really reduce tensions with Russia and was not prepared to "die" on that hill.
That makes Don a coward. I suppose they told him he could end up like JFK if he pursued peace with Russia, as JFK tried to do.
Watch now as slow Joe ramps up tensions with Russia and the left who used to promote peace, will support him fully.
So you consider the Russians putting bounties on American troops in Afghanistan wasn’t ramping up tensions? At the very least you don’t consider it disrespectful? Don’t you think Trump should’ve said something?
What about this big hacking that the Russians pulled off on American government computers? Trump didn’t say anything about that one either and this is an enormous breach of American security.
Putin violated the arms limitation treaty and Trump tore it up.
There’s not wanting to escalate tensions, and then there’s just boldfaced subservient to unchecked aggression. Americans were embarrassed and ashamed by Trump’s subservient behaviour with Putin. They were ashamed of his failure to defend American troops or American security from this hostile foreign power.