Putin is in the catbird seat, and everyone knows it, so he is going to take fullest advantage of that to get his way with the US.

we’ve laid the groundwork for decades.

The rich have laid the groundwork for all non-rich to live in abject poverty. Oligarchs worldwide now control all the MSM, even the so-called liberal media, to push an agenda of division and despair to cattle-chute workers into supporting strongman fascist regimes in hopes of relief but they are digging themselves into a life of slavery.