We may find out.

incredible way to wash lots and lots of money in "contractor" payments.

It would also create an unprecedented national security threat to our nation. It would be one of the dumbest, most dangerous, most traitorous acts in our history.

It's been building nuclear power plants.

It means there's more petroleum for export. It means when the oil runs out, they'd have electricity. Then there's the by-product perks that could trigger a real boom.

Part is national pride. Technology = important, and ethnicities like to feel important.

Russia gets money out of it. These aren't gifts. These are "we'll front the loan, you get the product, and you pay us back." Think car dealership that finances the cars themselves. You go in with nothing, you leave with a car and a pile of debt.

Syria had a nuclear program bombed. The claim by those who figured the US and Israel are always wrong is that it was for peaceful purposes. Same for Iraq's nuclear program, originally and the one that they allegedly had planned.

Any reports saying that the Russians would hire US persons to do the design or building are blowing smoke. It's not something they would do--perhaps it's something they would say they would do, but it's not something they would actually do. They'd get less money, and they'd be sharing technology with US.

Russia was to build the plants and the US was to guard and protect them. All of it was to be done by private individuals, without government involvement, except for the military.

Sounds incredibly dangerous to me.

was going to split it with Drumpf.

So win-win whether they work or not, and his white supremacist slavery-is-in-the-Bible core supporters wouldn't mind one bit

Nuclear reactors can make material for bombs. But you need missiles and fighter jets to carry the the bombs. You need air defenses to protect them. You need more tanks and guns on the ground to guard them.

And neighboring nations nearby will do the same in an arms race.