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There's also a lot of evidence that NATO is being prepped to get more aggressive with Russia, and that Hillary wants a major escalation with Russia.

Given that the DNC emails provide enough rope to hang themselves, Russia would be stupid to NOT do this.

If it comes down to: Trump - friendship with Russia, Clinton - war with Russia, I know which way I'd vote.

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If by 'friendship with Russia' you mean 'let Putin take whatever territory he wants'.

You mean like how we respect the borders of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Syria?

Putin has made it clear that his goal is to turn Russia into an authoritarian police state (a goal he has largely accomplished) and regain all the territory that the old USSR controlled, including Eastern Europe. Is that what you really want? Do you really think that would make the world a better place?

Trump has made clear he wants the US to be an authoritarian police state, so they agree on that.

>Trump has made clear he wants the US to be an authoritarian police state

How so? I have not been following Trump much. What are his policies that will turn the country into a police state? And how does he plan to go around Congress and the Judicial Branch to implement his police state?

No. I don't think either extreme makes the world a better place.

Good fences make good neighbors.

That goes for all parties involved.

There's also a lot of evidence that NATO is being prepped to get more aggressive with Russia,

Such as? From your wording I assume you have specifics handy.

30 seconds on google: http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/692601/NATO-military-chi...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-15/nato-says-it-might-...

And look who gets blamed for the DNC leak:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-25/fbi-launches-probe-...

You're going to have to do a bit more googling.

Neither of those articles supports the point you were trying to make.

What do you mean by "get more aggressive"? Invade with 10,000 tanks? Drop a nuke on Moscow?

You know, when the US does some major military action, like invading Iraq, it is generally preceded by months of debate in the press. Do you see Obama and his supporters arguing for invading Russia?

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