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I remember reading him being quoted as wanting to get out of Syria and to stop antagonizing the Russians. That seems less confrontational than Obama and certainly Clinton's position.

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Trump called for 20-30,000 US troops on the ground in Syria.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-...

That's the only way to possibly bring the conflict to a close. If we just leave Syria now it will create a major opportunity for Russia.

But not committing overwhelming force to Syria will ensure we never leave.

Syria has been Russias client state for decades. We wouldn't have had Brexit, the flooding of the EU with migrants and now Trump if the US didn't decide at some point to try and flip Syria by supporting the most radical Syrian psychopaths it could find.

Well that one failed spectacularly. At least with Trump you can be quite sure that when he finds out who exactly gave the order to support these terrorist groups in Syria, and he will get access to that information soon, then he will lock these people up for life or they might even face charges for treason.

It's fair to say nobody really knows what Trump will do, but one of the few things he's been consistent on is friendlyness towards Putin.

I have more than one non-American friend right now who is happy Trump won. Because they thought Hillary would start WW3 with Russia.

I agree. My impression was that Clinton was at least equally as hawkish as Trump, if not more so. She was (is?) certainly more in bed with defense contractors and the whole military machine--as any lifetime politician really probably is.

Clinton threatened Russia with a military response to a cyber attack. There are reasons to like Clinton over Trump, but a dove-ish foreign policy isn't one of them.

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