[hermitShell]

Is there any evidence towards this allegiance? Why should we attribute to malice what we could attribute to incompetence, or greed?

[arunabha]

One piece of evidence would be that Russia, Belarus and North Korea have been specifically excluded from US tariffs. You could argue that the net effect is negligible since we don't import a lot from those countries, but the signal being sent to long term allies is devastating to America's future relations with them.

[tstrimple]

Uninhabited islands made the tariff list, but those countries somehow managed to slip through.

[oldprogrammer2]

The US has trade sanctions with those countries.

[Onawa]

Yes, there is a LOT of evidence of this allegiance, although maybe just observing Trump's unwillingness to openly criticize Russia and Putin is highly suspect by itself.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associat...

[rcpt]

And those "mishandled classified documents"? They were all about Russian interference in elections.

We never got them back but I'm sure Vlad liked his birthday present

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/12/politics/missing-rus...

[apercu]

Your eyes and ears for the last 9 years?