"The real question, then, is why Trump never criticizes or denounces Putin, and so far does not use any levers of power to push Russia into serious negotiations of any kind, even bilateral ones."
I don't believe this is true but I think it is very useful to Putin that people think so. Which was the point of feeding disinfo to Christopher Steele's source in the first place.
"The real question, then, is why Trump never criticizes or denounces Putin, and so far does not use any levers of power to push Russia into serious negotiations of any kind, even bilateral ones."
Because Putin has the receipts.
I don't believe this is true but I think it is very useful to Putin that people think so. Which was the point of feeding disinfo to Christopher Steele's source in the first place.
So what happened in ReykjavĂk?
I don't know, neither do you, and look who benefits most from that