- First, “he is president of the US,” and the relative power of the two countries is incomparable even when Moscow “decides to make use of the newest technologies for the destabilization of its opponent.”
- Second, the state he leads is itself a barrier to any capitulation given how Moscow has been behaving.
- And third, Trump can’t because he and his closest collaborators are “figures of an investigation into possible contacts with the Russians during the election” and the president must show “that he does not have any relationship to these contacts.”
- First, Putin long ago left the world of reality for a world based on fantasies of his importance.
- Second, “capitulation would mean the collapse of Putin’s authority” in the eyes of his security service cronies.
- And third, just as Trump has nothing to offer Putin so Putin has nothing to offer Trump which is not inconsistent with the political and “what is most important” economic systems of the countries that they head.
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