Mr. Putin has been bragging about all his new Nuclear technology that will allow Russia to avoid our missile defenses. This is evidently about firing up national pride so he can get an overwhelming electoral victory next week (victory is assured as he has already arrested or eliminated all the opposition).
I know how every previous President in my lifetime would have responded. They would have made a public statement to the effect Mr. Putin is taking Russia down the same road to failure the Soviet Union followed. The Soviet Union did not collapse because it was militarily weak. It collapsed because it stifled its people's creativity. It did not allow its people the freedom to build a life on their own terms.
No need to say that Putin is doing the same to his people. They know it.
But I am not sure President Trump recognizes this is what is happening. It often seems like President Trump has the instincts of an Oligarch. The idea that a country's strength comes from the personal and economic freedom of it's people seems outside his life experience.
I suspect he will bluster back about how powerful our military is. I hope for better. We shall see.
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