re: Known Russia hawks John McCain & Lindsey Graham urge Trump to punish Russia

With those geopolitical opponents that you need cooperation with you use the carrot and the stick. Not just the stick. McCain and Graham are vestiges of a Neoconservative foreign policy apparatus that is hanging on for dear life. Trump needs to do the right thing and the popular thing, and drive a stake in it. Now is the time for bigger imaginations, not all this status quo small-ball. How about instead of "punishing" Russia we attempt to forge a mutually-beneficial relationship. If that doesn't work, we can always punish them later, and in a far more substantive way than just having a temper tantrum.