"He will use anyone and anything to achieve this goal, including occupying other sovereign nations and murdering civilians, and it will come at the expense of other nations in the Middle East and Europe."

Which is exactly what the US has been doing for many years, occupying, destabilizing and destroying Middle East countries, killing a lot of people.

Exactly what "interests" of the US are "diametrically opposed" to Putin's? Whose interests? As a working-class person I don't see any benefit at all to reviving the Cold War with Russia. Nothing in that for people like me, except serving as cannon fodder in our endless, extremely expensive wars that we have to pay taxes to support.

How Putin runs Russia is none of our business. That's up to the Russians to decide.

So far I've seen no convincing proof that Russians hacked Democratic emails, which just told us what Clinton and the party were really up to.