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In diplomatic maneuvering - you also don't take a kick in the nuts when it's strategically better not to. A small country, like the Philippines - you can ignore a kick in the nuts and do something minor, like cancel a meeting. With a country like Russia, committing a much larger transgression, I think a point needs to be made or Russia, being Russia, will just keep on doing it.
"With a country like Russia, committing a much larger transgression,"
What much larger transgression did Russia commit?
Hacking the DNC and attempting to influence our election. All Dutarte was utter vulgar insults.
How come the corruption the DNC hack exposed doesn't offend you but the fact that it was exposed does?
First, no corruption was exposed.
Second, why are you not demanding that Reince Priebus' or Steve Bannon's personal emails get published. You deserve to know, right? You want to be informed, don't you?
Intellectually dishonest.
If no corruption was exposed, then nothing of value was in the emails and Russian influence on the election is negligible meaning this escalation is even more stupid and reckless.
You can't argue nothing of value was exposed and then whine about the Russians exposing it. Either wikileaks exposed Democrat corruption which may have had an impact on the election or they didn't, in which case we can 100% sure no impact happened. See revealing nothing has no impact.
And the difference between Republicans and Democrats is that If priebus had his emails leaked and they showed the level of corruption the Democrat emails did, we would be calling for priebus's head instead of starting crap with the Russians.
No corruption needs to be "exposed" - it only needs to be implied to do damage.
If Priebus' emails were leaked by the Russians...you'd be acting the same way we are. Don't pretend you are any different. Look at how you blow off Trump's conflicts of interest, improprieties with women, etc.