I was CIA's top agent in Moscow - Putin has trained to manipulate men like Trump

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2. Trump is owned by Putin

“Putin looks at Trump and sees a weak guy, vain, with huge ego,” says Dannenberg. He admits Trump is hardly the first US leader to have a big opinion of himself, but fears the current US President is “incredibly naive” and vulnerable to the Kremlin’s influence, as Putin seeks to further divide the US and Europe.

Indeed, when Trump met with Volodymyr Zelensky for vital talks in Florida on Sunday night, it turned out that the US President had called Putin in advance. In a following press conference, Zelensky could scarcely contain his bewilderment when Trump declared that Putin “wants Ukraine to succeed”.

And when Putin later claimed, with no evidence, that a Ukrainian drone had been aimed at his residence – which Kyiv has denied – Trump seemed to suggest he was wise not to provide Zelensky with Tomahawk cruise missiles.

For critics like Dannenberg, these were just the latest examples of the American leader parroting what his Russian counterpart has told him.

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Trump wants to shape his place in history, but if he is not careful, Dannenberg warns, he could resemble the prime minister who tried appeasing Adolf Hitler. “His legacy might be like Neville Chamberlain.”