I am trying to understand what you are saying. From everything my intellect tells me, the credibility and trust we've worked so hard to build with other nations, other cultures, has all been blown away. It occurs to me these actions have only served to strengthen Russia's stability in the region, and destroyed our own. To measure our level of trust and credibility, it seems to me that we must first begin to redefine just who our allies are. If you would like for me to theorize, as our president seems to, that Russia is our ally, I suppose that I would first be obligated to accept what they are asking us to believe, that we have trust and credibility with them.

But is there any value whatsoever, in this so-called honesty, if we sell our very soul?

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