Nonilex<p>…<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> risks abandoning leadership of a liberal democratic order that spreads American values & global prosperity, siding instead w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autocratic</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/strongman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>strongman</span></a> govts.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EdMartin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EdMartin</span></a> advocated greater <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> - <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> cooperation before Trump’s 1st meeting as pres w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a>, in Germany in July 2017, saying on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RT</span></a> that he expected Trump to come away w/ “some affinity w/Putin.” He struck the same note just after the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> invasion, as the US imposed sanctions on Putin personally.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a></p>