While I have only a concerned citizen's knowledge of foreign affairs, I am baffled by the hysterical Russophobia of the MSM and the Democratic Party since the 2016 election. As far as I can tell, there should be no real issues between Russia and the U.S.  Ukraine or Crimea is freighted with questions of local ethnicity and brutal history and should be sorted out by the parties, or at most by Europe.  We have no stake.  As for the defense of Europe, it is not credible that Russia has designs on an entity that so outweighs it in population and wealth.  Trump was right to point out that the Europeans themselves do not believe in the threat, since they are happy to shortchange defense while relying on Russia for natural gas.  Why would the Russians send tanks when shutting a valve would cripple Germany? I do not really understand why either nation is in Syria, and any Russian intervention in the 2016 election was...(Read Full Article)