So, as President, Trump was Putin’s abject slave.  What did Putin want?  Diplomatic relations.  Trump expelled a hundred Russian diplomats.  He demanded sanctions against Russia be dropped.  Trump added more.  He ordered Trump to stay in the Iran deal.  Trump dumped it.  He directed Trump to de-fund Kiev’s neo-Nazi regime and drop demands to give up Crimea.   Trump said no.  He told Trump to cut the military budget.  Trump increased it.  He insisted Trump get out of Syria.  Trump refused and had to be forced out.  At Helsinki, he may even have asked Trump for–gasp!–a nuclear arms control deal.  Trump demurred.  No go, Vlad, said the slave.

One would have to say that, to date, Putin’s having Trump by the plums has produced no great triumphs.  How can that be?  What slavery is this?  Either you have leverage or you don’t; you can exert pressure or you can’t.

Ah, but one bonehead military braintruster has revealed that it’s all about undermining America’s “moral authority” in the world.  That, you see, is Putin’s truly diabolical desire.  Never mind all the oppositional policies and antagonistic acts by Trump; they are but clever cover for a far more sinister plot by the fiend Putin to diminish our cherished respect in the world mind.

One might have thought our grotesquely vicious blood-and-horror shows in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria would have sufficed to render our “moral authority” moot for Putin since we no longer have any, but not so.

There is evidently no limit to his malevolent passion to see America become the most hated nation on earth, and he wants it done–the gods know how!–faster than we’re doing it ourselves.  That being so, one might suspect his evil meddling reaches far back to Clilnton, the Bushes, and Obama, but that’ s not how the story goes.  What Putin wants Trump to do is to eliminate non-existent admiration and respect, a tough order indeed.

For the sake of rigorous inquiry, let’s set aside the poor performance Putin is getting despite his deathgrip on his victim, and speculate about what

Vlad Teufelsdreck might ideally hope for with a slave who honored his obligations better.  If you’ve followed me so far, his goal seems clear.

He wants to recreate a Russian Empire and rule the world.  This may not be obvious from his actual behavior but we need not be fooled by mere evidence.  After subverting, disarming and occupying the U.S.–having asked Xi and China to hang tight while he conquers his moral authority-impaired foes–he will then turn on China, just as Hitler did on…

Can you go on with this line of bullshit?  Can anyone?  Taking an honest look at the wild goat’s nest of irrationality and deceit behind the claim that Putin has any hold of any kind whatever on Trump, and then parsing the implications of that idea, the infantile fatuity, the mind-numbing idiocy of the whole sham has to slam one like a hi-balling train.

An assertion of fact is, in logic, a premise, which is a proposition supporting a conclusion.  The assertion that Trump is Putin’s puppet supports the conclusion that Trump must obey his will, which, QED, is howlingly absurd.

Clintonista Corporate Democrats, obdurate in hara-kiri mode, have gone all in to attack Trump with this baseless fantasy rather than blister him for the  glaring evils he has actually perpetratred.  That would be damned awkward for them as many of their big donors are just fine with the looney fiats of the Imperial Pagliacco.  And, their ploy has failed.  Trump’s riding them out.

They’ve embraced the Goldwater mantra, “Better Dead Than Red”, and are stoking the fires of the gullible for a face-off with Russia.  Gearing up for that Big One would be a jackpot for the War Machine.  It could gouge out a far fatter hunk of budget than they’ve gotten beating up defenseless little nations and it’d be fat city right up to the point where Russia, generations ahead of Aunt Sam in weaponry, tore The Empire a great big new one.

If this desperate madness persists, we may yet have both Trump and war.  It may be as Kafka reflected: “There is infinite hope… but not for us.”