++Front page New York Times article by Steven Lee Myers and Neil MacFarquhar. The piece details Trump's relationship with Russia and for the first time I've seen details Paul Manafort's Russian financial ties as opposed to his work with the previous Ukrainian government.
++But the other aspect is that Putin may see this as revenge on Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration for their policies against Russia itself and Russia's meddling in the Ukraine and Europe.
++James Fellows at the Atlantic writes that we shouldn't see Putin as a master chess master but more a desperate man lashing out around the world. Fellows points out that Russia is not a major competitor with the United States because its economy is crippled and that he is using war-like tactics as part of his economic strategy.
++The neo-conservative weekly standard sees more of a problem that the Republican party has become Putin's Party because of Trump's policies toward NATO and the Ukraine.
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