Trump's Relationship with Putin?

[busterbrown]

Is similar to a Child's affection for his Dad.. Son see's Dad as tough, Strong, Smart etc. Someone who will protect him no matter what and he doesn't even have to go to school.. Dad will teach him everything he needs to know.

[dalton99a]

1. Putin is his patron, protector, lender, and political idol

not to mention purveyor of the finest Russian hookers

[hedda_foil]

2. Putin's promised to make Trumpie into a really truly bigly time oligarch just like in Russia.

Billions and billions and billions of bucks and the kind of power and respect he's always dreamed of. All he has to do in return is successfully carry out his Putin-assigned duties of making the United States a third world wasteland, à la Somalia 1992-3, and destroying all vestiges of the Western Alliance. That will leave Putin free to take over the lands of the former USSR and then some. Who knows how far Putin's imperial dream could stretch -- adding all of Germany to his new Greater Russia, perhaps? Maybe taking over France? Thus, by Putin's KBG-trained calculations at least, future historians will credit him with restoring Russia's status as a great empire and returning it to glory as the greatest of great powers and making Putin the most powerful man in the world.

If Trump manages to succeed, the US will be so weakened that Putin won't need to keep his promises to the village idiot in chief.

Of course, that's just imho.