i am not retreating from my previous analysis: the deep state fucked up hard, and trump is going to be a disaster. but i will acknowledge that sending putin trump may have actually been the only way to get him to pull back from syria, which is something the americans desperately need, right now.

don't be fooled by the narrative that trump is working for russia. that's the psy-op. at first, i thought they were trying to take trump down (having served his purpose of keeping clinton out of power, trump is now useless to the deep state), and in the end, they still might. but it's becoming clearer that the actual goal is to get into putin's pants and manipulate him into doing what they want.

you don't order the russians around. that doesn't work. you need to get buddy-buddy with them.

and, it's transparent, as everything the cia does always is. so, this conflict you're seeing develop where senior russians are pushing back and yelling at putin not to fall for it is a real thing. but, he is falling for it. just like he fell for the distraction in ukraine (until he didn't).