Thanks for your comment, AJ. It re:enforces and deepens my concerns. Ken Blackwell (and a rabidly homophobic, Mike Pence)  may soon be in a position to fuse the anti-gay policies of Ratzinger's Vatican ( not Francis'), Trump's proposed America, and Putin's Russia. From a Kremlin perspective, given that Trump is Putin's proxy in America, we can expect the on-going resonance from this Bro-manse to influence a suite of issues, both domestic and international, and bring them into alignment just as, on the nuclear, refugee, and anti-Islamic issues, others have noted here. 

Geo-politically uniquely position to do so, Russia is pursuing implementing the Trans-Eurasian Infrastructure Development Project which proposes a bridge or tunnel over the Bering Straight linking Russia and the US. It will be the most massive infrastructure project ever undertaken. With China's cooperation, it will stretch from the Arctic to the Far East and underpin an equally massive trade zone. Thus the Bro-manse.