jj, You missed the point of the joke.  I heard it many times and repeated it many times in Afghanistan, it was never said to be funny, it was meant as an insult. It was also true in Iraq. Iraq wasn't a NATO mission though many of the coalition nations were NATO members. Most of the time I enjoyed my NATO mission in Bosnia and guess who was there with us? If you said Russia, you guessed right. As a matter of fact I met one of the heroes (Medal of Honor equivalent) of their war in Afghanistan. My men hung out with the Russian enlisted guys all the time.

As you know, my post wasn't about Trump's specificity, it was about what he may be doing.  Since I am neither a republican or a close confidant of Trump's, I can only speculate at what he may be thinking or doing.  I give him credit for being more than an imbecile or insane as I do Hillary which it seems that neither republicans or democrats can do for the opposition. I would never flag you nor anyone else. I was just making a point.