Leftists comrades What do you want the Trump administration to do re: Russia?

They just want to whine about stuff. Whether it's Russia, "unequal pay", "equal rights", etc. they have no real plans, no list of demands, nothing constructive or bipartisan...they literally want to just scream, whine, and break things like little babies. Ask them to elaborate or create a list of demands and you get either silence or more blathering.

It's not just people on this board.

The interesting thing is i Am yet to hear any person, even Fox News, ask the question:

What do you want the Trump administration to do?

I want everyone to stop having such double standards. Russia is not our friend. I appreciate trump trying to mend relations as much as possible but he's not going somehow outwit a psycho like putin. I saw threads that said "Leftists all of a sudden hate commies??" well guess what, some of y'all have all of a sudden embraced them. Someone on this board wished putin would have been on the ballot in '16. The idea of pissing off the other side has become more important than working together and until this "snowflake, melt, cuck" bullshite from the right and the "racist, literally hitler, sexist" bullshite from the left stops we are so fricked.

Grow up.

So answer the question what would be satisfactory as it relates to handling Russia?

Sounds like you just want some heightened rhetoric to come out of the admistrstion.

Ok, great what is that supposed to do?

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break things like little babies

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Your fricking president is the biggest cry baby in the fricking country.....

Nordstrum: not fair
CNN: fake news
Polls: unfair, biased
news leaks: unfair, illegal
media treated Flynn unfairly.....

He makes an arse of himself every.....single.....day. And you sheeple, love it.

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never defended the president's Twitter habits

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You know what, you still voted for this clown. By allowing him to becoming POTUS, you might as well condone everything he says, you obviously agree with him.

I want them to be honest about the ties to Russia and articulate why Russia is being given the green light to increase its expansion into its neighboring countries and violate arms treaties without a peep from the White House, while the White House looks for ways to eliminate or lessen sanctions against Russia for doing these very things. Tell us what the hell is going on and we will talk about response.

As for the present situation, we want the White House to continue the policy of action from a position of strength in the protection of our own interests and those of our necessary allies.

These are rational and reasonable positions.

Stonewalling, secrecy and appeasement are not.

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You know what, you still voted for this clown. By allowing him to becoming POTUS, you might as well condone everything he says, you obviously agree with him.

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How do you know for whom I voted? I was against Hillary Clinton, but I have never divulged on here my vote choice. You seem to be assuming a lot of things today.

- Sanctions should stay in place. If they're lifted it should only be part of a deal, and that deal should be negotiated with a harsh enforcement provision for non-state actors so Russia can't just wink and nod and send "patriotic citizen volunteers" who just happen to own T-72s.

- Firm statement that the US NATO guarantees remain in place for the next four years. I'm all for twisting arms on defense spending, but do so through back channels and pressure on non-military issues like TTIP, not by making it ambiguous whether we'll intervene or not because that kind of ambiguity is Not Good. The 2% commitment isn't in the NATO text, it's always been an informal metric. If you want it to be binding, amend the treaty or layer over it with the majors.

- Discard the fantasy that Russia will be an ally against ISIS. Russia won't seriously fight ISIS until every other non-regime actor in Syria is buried. Allying with them would mean selling out the Kurds and driving every Sunni directly into the arms of Nusra. Just get out of Syria entirely and let them own the next generation of blowback.

- Also discard the fantasy that you're going to successfully play Russia and Iran off each other. A bright Risk player could see through this gambit, and in Risk you can't build oil pipelines through the Shia crescent. Plus as autocracies, Iran and Russia will always see each other as more reliable rather than a messy country like us where any crazy Twitter troll can get elected and do a 180 on policy.

- Stop pointless saber-rattling over worthless sand spits in the China Sea. We need China's cooperation to deal with actual threats like North Korea, so antagonizing them over building sea bases in what is basically their back yard accomplishes nothing. Same with openly flirting with Taiwan independence. Yes everyone knows Taiwan is a country, but this is the good kind of ambiguity because it lets China save face.