What would have been Russia's motive in trying to aid in Trump's election? And why would Trump now be trying so hard to discredit the intelligence community's evidence of Russia's interference?
The chief clue is Trump's selection of Rex Tillerson, the man so often pictured pressing the flesh with Putin, as Secretary of State. Combine this with Trump's China bashing during the campaign, and I think we have it.
It's kind of a reverse of Nixon's strategy in the early 1970s. Then, Nixon --- a crook but also a skilled statesman --- realized that the Communist monolith was a myth. He opened relations with China to undermine the Soviet Union by aligning the US with the Peoples Republic. It took another 20 years and another Republican president, Ronald Reagan, to bring the strategy started by Tricky Dick to full fruition.
Now Putin's Russia is struggling to be resurgent. Meanwhile, China has risen to be the second most powerful power on the globe. Thus, aligning with Russia is the obvious way to shift the scales against China... a sort of reverse-Nixon move.
And, thus, Tillerson at State.
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