deft, vice president, u.n. ambassador, his own party, the democratic party, american tradition, et cetera, et cetera. but this is not just about russia and the g7. that's largely symbolic punishment. this is about the big strategic game that's underway. all right? and what one of russia's large strategic aims is to split the united states from its european allies. and what trump has done is he's effectively done their work for them. okay? for no reasonable gain, no perceivable benefit other than to stick his thumb in the eye of our closest allies out of a peak of announce and frustration. it's counterproductive. it's strategically stupid. we can assign all sorts of assumptions as to why he did it. i don't know. i'm not in his mind. but it's suffice to say it hurts our alliances, hurts america's