this week? how about the saudis? the one thread that is absolutely consistent with trump's behavior is that he wants sanctions blocked or lifted on vladimir putin, on russia. and for putin, this is absolutely essential because despite putin's swaggering today and his state of the union address, threatening the united states, promising the sun and the moon and the stars to the russian people who are getting inpatient because they're not getting the sun and the moon and the stars, putin above all wants those sanctions lifted. trump has really tried his best to lift them on russian oligarchs' corporations. he slow rolled congress again and again. and putin, again, using an ased like trump, you don't expect the asset to do everything for you. you focus on what you really want. and putin in the long term wants the russian superpower, a more powerful army, but it comes down to money. in the immortal words of that