Our Allies Are Asking: Why Does Putin Still Own Trump?

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1. > I do not believe that the U.S. president is somehow a Putin asset

   Would have saved me some time if he said this in the first paragraph.

2. >**Our Allies Are Asking: Why Does Putin Still Own Trump?**

   Gee, New York Times, what could be the reason for this?

   Think, Times. Think! Rub all those “journalism” prizes together and see if they spark something. I know you can do it.

   Why — O, why? — are all these incisive, critical minds all over the planet, everywhere on Earth except for within the halls of American journalism, all asking this question?

   What could the reason be?

   Come on, millionaire-heiress-fuckboy Thomas Friedman, I know you can do it.

   Come on, flaccid-brained Trump-fawning Putin-adoring editors of the Times, see if you can get this one.

   See if you can figure out why.

3. This is part of what he’s saying:

   >The other explanation I offered to my European and Ukrainian friends went like this: You know how we often say that the Chinese are much more sophisticated players of the game of nations — that while we play checkers, the Chinese play chess, always thinking many moves ahead. Well, it’s sort of like that with Trump. Only Trump is not playing either checkers or chess. He’s playing “Monopoly.”

   >He does not judge countries on whether they share our democratic values — or even our interests. He judges them on whether they are Boardwalk or Baltic Avenue, on whether we have a trade surplus or trade deficit with them, on whether they are the site for a future Trump hotel or golf course and on whether their leaders will flatter his ego or not.

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