1987: Trump wanted US and Russia to do joint "economic retaliation"
It was to be aimed at countries who were trying to get their own nukes.
But given what we know NOW...who's to say that his joint US/Russia "economic retaliation" venture wouldn't be used for other things..and if Russia has dirt on Trump, guess who gets to dictate how that joint retaliation is used.
And...per the article, Trump seems to be OK with retaliation measures that lead to riots and instability in other countries.
Towards the bottom of the link is the original 1987 article/interview.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_spectator/2016/03/trump_s_nuclear_experience_advice_for_reagan_in_1987.html
So what is the deal Trump thinks can be done? What is the Trump Plan?
Its a deal with the Soviets. We approach them on this basis: We both recognize the nonproliferation treatys not working, that half a dozen countries are on the brink of getting a bomb. Which can only cause trouble for the two of us. The deterrence of mutual assured destruction that prevents the United States and the USSR from nuking each other wont work on the level of an India-Pakistan nuclear exchange. Or a madman dictator with a briefcase-bomb team. The only answer is for the Big Two to make a deal now to step in and prevent the next generation of nations about to go nuclear from doing so. By whatever means necessary.
Most of those [pre-nuclear] countries are in one form or another dominated by the U.S. and the Soviet Union, Trump says. Between those two nations you have the power to dominate any of those countries. So we should use our power of economic retaliation and they use their powers of retaliation and between the two of us we will prevent the problem from happening. It would have been better having done something five years ago, he says. But I believe even a country such as Pakistan would have to do something now. Five years from now theyll laugh.
You think Pakistan would just fold? We wouldnt have to offer them anything in return?
Maybe we should offer them something. Im saying you start off as nicely as possible. You apply as much pressure as necessary until you achieve the goal. You start off telling them, Lets get rid of it. If that doesnt work you then start cutting off aid. And more aid and then more. You do whatever is necessary so these people will have riots in the street, so they cant get water. So they cant get Band-Aids, so they cant get food. Because thats the only thing thats going to do itthe people, the riots.