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by UncleOxidant 1426 days ago
If as you say, that Trump did not want to confront Russia in order to prevent nuclear war (I don't think that was his motivation, but let's roll with your argument for a sec) then Trump was an appeaser in the mold of Neville Chamberlain.

As for his actual motivations, I think it had a lot more to do with wanting to make money in Russia as well as his admiration of autocrats.

> People are usually pretty rational on close inspection.

Large groups of people can be agitated and manipulated into being very irrational. Plenty of examples from history.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/25/donald-trump...

"Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Hillary Clinton’s plan for Syria would “lead to world war three” because of the potential for conflict with military forces from nuclear-armed Russia."