"The most extravagant idea that can arise in a politician's head is to believe that it is enough for a people to invade a foreign country to make it adopt their laws and their constitution. No one loves armed missionaries..." - Robespierre
lovely quote.
are you seriously saying were headed to Totalitarianism?
No matter what Trump wants the most he can get is executive action on restricting immigration BY COUNTRY -not be religion.
Frankly given the idealism ( to put it nicely) of Clinton upping 'Syrian refugees' to 65k in her first term, and more then 100k
( following UN recommendations) shows she isn't considering national security -and not by some Manchurian Candidate scenario.
It takes 2+ years of intensive vetting for Syrians to get in -and even here it's all based on interviews -since documentation
is uncheckable,or possibly counterfeit by ISIL's ability to create false passports.
So you can go with Putin controlling Trump -or Clinton bypassing severe vetting.
Myself I think it's both all bullshit. Neither is in the cards.
Trumps' foreign policy is "transactional" -not an ideology to weaken NATO. It's all a bluff to get them to pay more.
One the other hand actually talking to Putin -as an equal -and not as a "bad boy sloucher" as Obama excuses his failiure to connect
or Clinton the New Cold Warrior isn't going to produce anything but more stupid crisis.
Russian expansionism is a function of NATO expansionism as much as "new tsarism" -and both sides need to
be able to hammer out some spheres they agree to