For those questioning the rapprochement with Putin:
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
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Thomas Jefferson
We don't have to like our customers and business partners. Nor do we have to try to change the ones we don't like. We have to stop this desire to make the world perfect. A less vigorous foreign policy coupled with more trade and commerce is a better strategy for national defense.
As Ron Paul says, "People don't tend to bomb their customers."