WP: What does Trump see in Putin anyway?

[lanlady]

By David Von Drehle
Columnist
August 27 at 4:36 PM

I keep expecting President Trump to ditch Vladimir Putin for a younger, more glamorous autocrat, but apparently this is the marriage he intends to take to the grave. What other conclusion can we draw from his obsession with restoring Russia to the Group of Seven?

Reasonable heads of state can see that Putin is a spent force. His popularity is plunging. Protesters routinely swarm the streets of Moscow. The Russian economy is as dead as a Siberian winter. The lame coverup of a recent nuclear accident rings echoes of Chernobyl and the dying gasps of Putin’s beloved wreck — the Soviet Union.

At this point, Putin fits better in a Group of Three alongside his friends Bashar al-Assad, the barrel-bombing butcher of Syria, and Nicolás Maduro, from the failed state of Venezuela.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-does-trump-see-in-putin-anyway/2019/08/27/a474f73c-c8f4-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html?arc404=true

[struggle4progress]

1. Money money money

[Skittles]

2. the man he wants to be, that's what

and kompromat

[qazplm135]

3. Daddy

Clearly

[50 Shades Of Blue]

4. It's not what Trump sees in Putin. It's what Putin HAS on Trump.

[doc03]

6. That's what I think, the pee tapes. nt

[50 Shades Of Blue]

9. Yeah... Putin has a lot of dirt of all kinds on Trump.

That's why Trump does his bidding.

[C_U_L8R]

5. An exit strategy

[democratisphere]

7. Dictator power, absolute unchecked corruption and insanely outrageous wealth.

[keithbvadu2]

8. Donald sees it clearly.

Donald sees it clearly.

As his master Vlad approaches