> This is the only optimistic view I've heard on the subject. In no way was my comment optimistic. It was charitable at best. > Surely they don't actually wan

> This is the only optimistic view I've heard on the subject. In no way was my comment optimistic. It was charitable at best. > Surely they don't actually want to hand over national security to the Russians. Right? Well, that ship has sailed with DOGE. Honestly, I am as much or more concerned about Chinese and (perhaps surprisingly) Israeli intelligence as I am about Russian intelligence. Another charitable view: I think Trump, Vance, and Hegseth are actually cooking up something that they think has internal logic in terms of a negotiations stance. It’s probably a poorly implemented form of the “madman theory” of negotiation (a Nixon-style strategy), but who really knows?