Sitting in a stuffy overpacked hall at the Presidential Palace, in Helsinki, watching Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump give a joint press conference after their meeting today, I was shocked but not surprised. Not surprised because it has been clear for some time that, at a minimum, Trump has a kind of autocrat’s envy for Putin, who is the strongman that Trump likes to play on television, and, at a maximum, may feel beholden to him or the Russian state and those close to it.
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