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Recently, President Donald Trump has increased the pace of his attempt to rehabilitate Vladimir Putin's Russia in the world community. To all appearances, this seems driven by an increasingly urgent wish to strike lucrative deals with it, perhaps recognising that the options will narrow after a mid-term election setback, should that be imminent. So all the talk about needing to get peace with Ukraine first seems to be on the slide. And he has come up with a new feeble cover for such an act - even just days after having signed into law a bill that was intended to toughen sanctions. So what's going on? Let's discuss.