Trump: U.S. should respect Russia

TRUMP: Calling Russia a “gas station with a bunch of nuclear weapons” and calling Putin “an authoritarian gas station with a legacy of nuclear weapons from the old Soviet Union” is exactly the kind of simple-minded thinking that led to decades of failed diplomacy and eventually war. And what will this war lead to?

Under my administration, we have been tough on Russia, tougher than under any other administration, but we have also shown respect for Russia and the Russian people. We have demonstrated an understanding of Russian history and the fact that Russia lost more than 20 million lives in World War II.


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They fought alongside us. Such neoconservative rhetoric mocking Russia’s nuclear weapons and hints that Putin should be tried and presumably executed as a war criminal only increase the likelihood of a deadly nuclear escalation.