Is he? Time will tell. He could be playing ole Vlad the Bad, too. No point in getting wrapped around the axle yet, is my position. We shall see what we see. Tearing our beards out now in lamentation and dismay isn't useful at all.

We already have ISIS attacks in the US

Downplay, uplay, ignore; I fail to see how it changes our risk. Help me understand.

“The people we surround ourselves with either raise or lower our standards. They either help us to become the-best-version-of-ourselves or encourage us to become lesser versions of ourselves. We become like our friends. No man becomes great on his own. No woman becomes great on her own. The people around them help to make them great.
We all need people in our lives who raise our standards, remind us of our essential purpose, and challenge us to become the-best-version-of-ourselves.”

The only global threat to humanity is our very own stupid selves .......

I still don't see how going off on a Trump tweet or offhand remark changes our risk; at all.

Isis is a global enemy dmt. A threat to humanity that should be eliminate

Putin’s Russia has a museum dedicated to freedom — and people want to shut it down

The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center — dedicated to the country’s first freely elected president — celebrates liberties won in the 1990s, a decade that many Russians would rather forget. As the 25th anniversary of the dismantlement of the Soviet Union nears, the drumbeat of disapproval has only gotten louder.

I still don't see how going off on a Trump tweet or offhand remark changes our risk; at all.