"We will have a very good relationship with Russia" promises the mercurial Republican nominee for president who once referred to Russian President Vladimir Putin as his 60 Minutes "stablemate."

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Indiana Theater Sunday, May 1, 2016, in Terre Haute, Ind
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Republican nominee Donald Trump is anything but conventional bandying around suggestions that the United States force Mexico to pay for a wall to keep undocumented immigrants from fleeing into America, refinancing US debt as though the faith and credit of the dollar were akin to high-risk junk bonds, and declaring "you bet your ass I would" bring back waterboarding because the other side is "chopping off heads and drowning people in steel cages."

The man who has played a starring role over the course of the presidential campaign in celebrity dust ups with the Pope and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg often elicits scorn from the mainstream media who point to his fervent nationalist streak, history of controversial investment dealings, and outright bigoted statements against Mexicans and Muslims calling the former murderers and rapists while remarking that the latter should be banned from the country altogether.

Trump has also won favor with a great many people across the country, however, for his willingness to fire back against the country’s military and defense establishment bludgeoning conventional thought that all too often pulls the world towards chaos, disorder, and war.

Trump has notably called for scaling back NATO, the massive military alliance that plays the role of arch-villain in the minds of the Russian people who fear the West plans to invade. The Republican nominee believes that Russia is not the enemy of the West suggesting instead that the defense alliance should focus on the specter of "radical Islamic terrorism" or cease to exist.