Is Donald Trump a traitor?!

[CapnAwesome]

Exactly. You have to be actually at war with someone to commit treason. We aren't at war with Russia. People call them our enemy, but I can't really see why. They are no more or less our enemy than half the countries of the world.

I think it boils down to a couple things:
1) The Russians used to be our biggest enemy. Technically, the Soviet Union was our enemy, but in practice, the Soviet Union was over a dozen smaller countries whose governments were subsumed by Russia.
2) With ISIS falling and our Middle Eastern enemies being a lot more nebulous than they were during the Bush administration, there's a vacuum in our desire to fuck some shit up.
3) Russia is A) acting in ways diametrically opposed to what America is supposed to be for (even if those ideals were just barely honoured by America), B) Powerful enough to potentially be a world superpower again, and C) Actually fairly dangerous, even if the danger hasn't actually reached us.

It's not enough to actually be an enemy; In my post, I specifically called it more of a rival than an enemy, but that distinction seems to be lost on a bunch of people.

Exactly so. But lots of countries are our rivals. Russia isn't special except to old people who don't want to let go of the cold war.

Putin gets a B+ as far as leaders of Russia in the last 100 years.

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I also believe Trump should be impeached. But not for anything to do with Russia. Watching the American left have heart attacks over all things Russia is truly baffling. The same as watching right wing people ignore or defend Russia.

Personally I think better relations with Russia is better for everyone.