Putin’s Three-Step Playbook to Manipulate Trump’s White House
Summary
The article describes what it calls a Russian strategy to influence President Donald Trump through praise and economic or political rewards. It cites Putin’s public compliments toward Trump and Elon Musk, and says Russia gained a diesel deal and limited U.S. sanctions relief in October; the provided text ends before it explains the strategy’s third step.Key Facts
- Putin praised Trump’s response to the 2024 Pennsylvania rally shooting two days after Trump won the election.
- In January 2025, Putin said the Ukraine crisis might not have happened if Trump had remained president after the 2020 election.
- Putin criticized the Nobel Peace Prize committee after it awarded the 2025 prize to Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado.
- Trump thanked Putin on Truth Social after Putin criticized the Nobel committee.
- Putin called Elon Musk a “real genius” and said Russia lagged behind Starlink.
- The article says Russia secured a diesel deal with Trump and a limited easing of U.S. sanctions in October.
- The article quotes Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying in July that Russia should exploit what he called the U.S. administration’s “dualism” on arming Ukraine and seeking peace.
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