BREAKING: Trump didn't ignore Putin's plot to kill US soldiers—he richly rewarded it.
PS/ This raises the question of whether Trump perceived attacks on US soldiers in Afghanistan as useful to his plan to end the war in Afghanistan before the 2020 presidential election for political purposes. By having the Taliban do its work, Putin created plausible deniability.
PS2/ That is, on learning a man he couldn't for any reason cross—Putin—was killing US soldiers in Afghanistan via the Taliban, Trump's reaction might've been that it was simply additional evidence for withdrawing from Afghanistan, not something he had to remedy on its own terms.
PS3/ In that respect, Kremlin-funded attacks on US soldiers in Afghanistan were politically useful to Trump, not something his malevolent mind would've required him to separate from his existing plan to win reelection by ending the war in Afghanistan—a long-stated political goal.
