Whatever Putin is doing, it's not just some scheme to distract us from Trump's worsening legal troubles. Putin wouldn't go to all of this, with all the risks involved, just to run a bit of PR for Trump. Besides, Putin gave up on the failed Trump experiment awhile ago.
In fact you could argue that BECAUSE Trump failed to ease Russian sanctions and was too much of a disaster to get reelected, Putin has had to move on to his next attempt at getting a leg up on the West, which is whatever Ukraine game he's playing right now.
While the Trump debacle did help Putin in terms of general discord in the U.S. (and the absence of the U.S. on the world stage) for four years, Trump's #1 job was to ease existing U.S. sanctions against Russia. But Trump, the bumbler, couldn't even get his GOP majority to do it.
Most people mistakenly think Trump reduced U.S. sanctions against Russia. He did not. Trump did largely succeed in preventing additional U.S. sanctions against Russia. But Trump never was able to give Putin the pre-2014 level of free trade that he had with the West.
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