The Washington foreign policy establishment has experienced many emotions since the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki: incredulity, fear, anger. But foremost among those emotions is a profound sense of humiliation. Here was the US President disgracing himself on an international stage, while the Russian President looked on, smirking.
For Mr Vladimir Putin, inflicting this kind of embarrassment on America is deeply satisfying.
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