cynnicallemon:
If Hillary wins then expect a major conflict in the Persian Gulf within 18 months. The Putin v Clinton war will stage there.
Putin is way too scared to do this. The US military budget is 10x Russia's. Russia also doesn't have a history of victory in proxy wars vs the USA. One of the ways Reagan destroyed the USSR was to throw a few SAMs etc the way of some anti-soviet agitators in countries they were trying to invade. This while Putin was a KGB thug.
The US is also not dependant on Middle Eastern Oil - it's now self-sufficient. Europe is dependant though, so any "war", then Russia would not face only the US. France, UK, and German military budgets also dwarf what Russia has.
It's not going to happen. One reason why Putin has been working hard to support Trump - in order to destroy NATO.