Putin has played Trump ‘like a violin’  but now US president is his ‘only answer’, ex MI6 boss says - video Dailymotion

Putin has played Trump 'like a violin' ex MI6 boss saysSource: BBC

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00:00Vladimir Putin is never going to get an American president who's better disposed to him

00:04because fundamentally Donald Trump accepts the fundamental Russian narrative that Ukraine was

00:10the aggressor. So if Vladimir Putin is never going to get a more friendly US president,

00:15why do you think he's overplayed his hand? No, honestly, I'm mystified. I mean, he is an

00:20intelligence officer. I think he's played Trump like a violin so far. He's created this idea that

00:24they're mates and that they're equivalent and they can solve all the world's problems together.

00:28But it's becoming very clear to Donald Trump that Putin has no other plan other than to

00:33subjugate Ukraine. And he's going to make Trump look like a Muppet if he continues. And that's not

00:39acceptable.