Caught on Kremlin camera: Putin reads his daily intelligence briefing, By Hal M. Brown

You can bet your last ruble Putin isn't firing his national security council staff.

I don’t think I need to explain more why Vlad was cracking up for the umpteenth time since Trump was reelected beyond posting this CNN article from yesterday: More than 100 National Security Council staffers put on administrative leave.

Whether this in particular was a Putin plan or not is impossible to determine. If it was, pour another shot of his favorite vodka for him the celebration when Putin and his pals put this Google News search on a TV screen:

I don’t know if Putin watches MSNBC. If he does, this is what he’d have seen on The Weekend today:

While we can’t prove that it is true that Trump and Putin are conspiring together for mutual benefit, it isn’t a lunatic conspriacy theory to suggest that this is at least a somewhat plausible explanation for much of what Trump has done to undermine democracy here. It also would be one explanation as to why the war in Ukraine rages on.

Do you have a few extra rubles? You might consider betting on how long it will take for Trump to do something that really makes Putin laugh. Apparently the Russians are a betting people. Consider how many betting websites they have.

You can place your bet and play this.

Addendum: These are some of the comments to the Rawstory article about this. One of them posted a link to the Russian national anthem as I did:

There are other comments suggesting Trump is in cahoots with Putin.

Related: 'This was a message': Bloody 'massacre' said to be 'direct result' of Trump move.

Excerpt:

nowhere. This is the direct result of Donald Trump’s two-and-a-half-hour phone call with Vladimir Putin just days ago. He opened the door—and Putin stormed through it," the ex-insider said. "While Trump smiles and talks about 'respect' and 'getting along,' Ukraine is bleeding. My sources tell me that this escalation was part of the plan. The pleasantries in public? Smoke and mirrors. Behind closed doors, Trump gave Putin what he wanted: silence, a green light, and the promise to walk away. And that’s exactly what we’re seeing unfold."

According to Parnas, "Trump ignores his own intelligence agencies, shuns State Department briefings, and instead takes advice from a handful of corrupt propagandists feeding him Kremlin narratives that paint Russia as a powerhouse and Ukraine as a nuisance."

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