threat of american diplomacy. secondly, it sends a message that he won t attack putin. he won t take putin on. he loves putin. he s unover wewhelmed by putin. this is an opportunity for him to say, you meddled in our election. you shouldn t do that. let s work together on syria, on getting assad out and onnize to maybe find a way to help on north korea because russia can help us a little bit. they are on the border with north korea and and instead, you know, we get sidetracked by this love affair that america seems to have with vladimir putin and siding with him over our own top intelligence officials. that doesn t make sense.