Should the US break off diplomatic relations with Russia?

[Deblano]

God no. Talking with people is how you AVOID war.

I despise the deplorable Trump-cult with a passion, but don't think we should stop talking to them. (Even if it is mostly useless, because they don't having functioning minds.) Russia is nowhere near as bad or dangerous.

Too late.

Their side lost so now they need to find a proper scapegoat.

We should go to DEFCON 2 to teach them a lesson. /s

[Deblano]

And what would this accomplish exactly?

What did breaking off relations with Iran accomplish?

Nothing? The regime is still there and it took decades for the U.S. to understand it's not going anyway so they might just as well try to mend tensions.

Russia, like Iran, has many legitimate grievances with the US.  They don't justify Russia's behavior.  But Bush 41 promised Gorbachev we would not expand NATO as we have done.  If the Cold War ended less favorably to us, how would Americans feel if the still-intact USSR attempted to integrate Greece, Finland, Austria, and Italy into the Warsaw Pact?

Economic sanctions, breaking off relations, are acts of war.  It is not in our interest to do this to Russia.  Period.

[Deblano]

No. Diplomacy should not be a pawn of politicians looking for scapegoats for their failures. Bad precedent.

The democratic party is officially insane. They've secluded and deluded themselves about the world so thoroughly that they've lost touch with reality.

You are officially insane, deluded, and out of touch with reality if you think BRTD is representative of the Democratic Party.

His foreign policy views have a disturbing similarity to that of Hillary Clinton.

It's Hillary Clinton on steroids.

Not even Hillary was this hardline against Russia.

There's a difference between punishing Russia for cyberattacks, and simply lashing out against Russia out of anger that Trump was elected.