Moscow is testing Trump's limits and reactions and raising the stakes further, in effect forming a textbook for China and other US competitors on how to deal with the new administration.

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The Kremlin is climbing the escalation ladder, artificially creating circumstances whose exclusion it can sell to Trump as a favor. This is manipulation.

Russia is testing where the line is that Trump will follow.

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