Originally Posted by NW Ponderer
3) Within 100 days of assuming office (if it even waits to inauguration), world affairs are going to explode. Iran, North Korea, ISIS, Russia and China will ALL be expanding and testing the limits of US commitment. His responses will be all over the board, but the Pentagon will be trying to limit foreign involvement (which he will gladly cling to).
And so it begins: After Trump chat, Putin's airstrikes pound Syria - USA TODAY; Russia Resumes Airstrikes in Syrian Provinces - WSJ. The airstrikes were paused as an election ploy, but now that Putin's puppy is in...

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