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What is the best American approach toward Putin’s Russia?

The United States should seek some informal alliance with Russia based on mutual interests.
21%
The United States must drop current sanctions and accept détente with Russia.
2%
The status quo of punishing Putin’s aggression should continue until he changes Russian behavior.
33%
The United States should further increase sanctions and seek to discourage global trade with Russia.
41%
The United States should sever all diplomatic relations and consider Russia as a de facto enemy.
3%
Total votes: 142
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This week in 1777, the United States of America’s “Betsy Ross Flag” was flown in combat for the first time. As the National Football League begins a new season, the proper etiquette for honoring America is

Require players to stand at attention for the national anthem
0%
Play the national anthem while the two teams are in their locker rooms
0%
Let players kneel in protest if they want, with no consequences
0%
Assess fines for players who take a knee/symbolically protest
0%
Leave it to each team to decide its respective anthem policy
0%
Total votes: 0
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This week in 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) came into effect, putting into force a multinational shield against the Soviet Union. The greatest concern for the 29 NATO member countries going forward

The non-US members mulling President Trump’s demand for a bigger financial contribution
0%
Whether to part ways with an increasingly totalitarian Turkey
0%
How to react to the possibility of a Middle Eastern “Arab NATO” that would confront Iran
0%
Remaining united should Russia launch an attack on newest member Montenegro
0%
Whether to pursue Sweden, Finland, Georgia, and Ukraine as new member countries
0%
Total votes: 0
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The final Wednesday of August 1967, Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the nation’s first black Supreme Court justice via a 69-11 Senate vote. The biggest difference today, as the Kavanaugh confirmation gets underway

The slim odds of a Supreme Court nominee receiving just 11 or fewer oppose votes
0%
The slim odds of up to twenty senators ducking the vote, as they did with Marshall
0%
Marshall’s 24 years on the court now the rule, not the exception, as younger justices are tapped
0%
A Supreme Court justice having a major airport re-named in their honor (Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall)
0%
Total votes: 0
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This week in 1941, Congress appropriated the funds for the War Department’s new home, aka the Pentagon. The most important military investment at this moment for America’s armed services

Next-generation helmets for Army forces
0%
Additional Navy carriers and submarines
0%
An Air Force fleet of autonomous aircraft
0%
Deadlier Infantry Automatic Rifles for Marines
0%
A larger budget for the US Cyber Command
0%
Total votes: 0
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This week in 1882, the feud between the Hatfield’s of West Virginia and McCoy’s of Kentucky took a deadly twist, leading to years of violence between the two rural clans. Today’s most noteworthy feud

President Trump, the media, and “fake news”
0%
China, America, and tariffs
0%
Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn, and Brexit
0%
Leslie Moonves, Shari Redstone, and CBS/Viacom
0%
Apple, Samsung, and smartphones
0%
Total votes: 0
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Seventy-three years ago this week, the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated in the New Mexico desert. The greatest atomic concern in this day and age

North Korea’s nuclear ambitions
0%
Iran’s nuclear ambitions
0%
Deadlier Russian missiles like the intercontinental “Satan 2”
0%
Terrorists gaining access to a Hiroshima-level bomb
0%
Radioactive waste’s effect on the environment
0%
The role of nuclear power in the world’s energy needs
0%
Total votes: 0
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This week in 1956, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis ended their partnership a decade after starting their fabled run atop the world of show biz. The current “partnership” that should be dissolved

The Trump-Putin mutual admiration society
0%
Iranian weapons and Hezbollah’s ambitions
0%
The United Kingdom and the European Union
0%
Venezuela’s oil and Cuba’s economy
0%
China’s oil and North Korea’s economy
0%
NATO and a strong-manned Turkey
0%
Total votes: 0
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This week in 1975, former Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared without a trace. The most astonishing vanishing act in 2018

GOP entitlement reform
0%
Moderate/centrist Democrats
0%
“Drain the Swamp”
0%
Mexico paying for a border wall
0%
Civil political discourse
0%
Total votes: 0
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Our present relationship with Turkey is best characterized as:

Turkey is now a de facto enemy given its Neo-Ottoman trajectory under the anti-democratic Erdogan.
27%
Turkey should leave NATO and be treated as a neutral non-belligerent such as Egypt or Jordan.
22%
Keep quiet and hope that Erdogan is a passing fad and not an indication of permanent political change.
5%
The U.S. must work with Erdogan on an ad hoc, realist basis when common interests arise.
43%
The U.S. should urge European Union status for Turkey and strengthen ties even with Erdogan.
3%
Total votes: 88
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