What might have been...

Roger L. Simon writes in PJ Media,

George W. Bush naively looked into Putin's eyes and saw his "soul." Obama was sleazier. He colluded with the Russian dictator, being caught on video whispering to Putin's lackey Medvedev to tell Vladimir that he, Barack, would be freer to make concessions after the election. (If Trump had been caught doing such a thing, CNN would be playing it fifty times a day for the next fifty years.) And then he literally gave Syria to the Russian dictator, walking back on his red line on chemical weapons. (Again, if Trump had done that, CNN would have had a mega-orgasm. We need a new word for extreme hypocrisy.)

...Trump, who is a transactional businessman, was probably going to make a serious outreach to Russia via business and trade. They are, relatively speaking, a weak nation (outside of the military) and in need of economic support.

Would this approach have worked? Would an appeal to Putin's greed have overcome the serious psychological wound he obviously has over the disintegration of the Soviet Union? It's hard to say. Nothing like that was ever attempted. But we will never know now -- because of the Russia probe.

The internal hostility and power conflicts motivating that investigation have made any outreach to Russia moot for the foreseeable future. In part because of Mueller and Company, the world has become a more dangerous place. They are among the reactionaries of our time.

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