Few remember that, nearing the end of his first term, Obama met with Medvedev, then Russian prime minister to Putin's presidency. A directional mike picked up Obama promising Medvedev that, once re-elected, he would have the NATO defensive missile sites removed from Poland - to meet Russian objections. Admiring a strong dictator, as Trump does Putin, is the first step to building defences against him. Pandering to a dictatorship, as Obama did, is the best way of strengthening its resolve. It's hard to know which of Obama's policies were the worst - foreign or domestic. Even the Trump haters will eventually have to admit that his policies - both foreign and domestic, were correct.
Few remember that, nearing the end of his first term, Obama met with Medvedev, then Russian prime minister to Putin's presidency. A directional mike picked up Obama promising Medvedev that, once re-elected, he would have the NATO defensive missile sites removed from Poland - to meet Russian objections. Admiring a strong dictator, as Trump does Putin, is the first step to building defences against him. Pandering to a dictatorship, as Obama did, is the best way of strengthening its resolve. It's hard to know which of Obama's policies were the worst - foreign or domestic. Even the Trump haters will eventually have to admit that his policies - both foreign and domestic, were correct.