James Carville, President Clinton’s former adviser and campaign manager, thinks the Nevada caucuses are a big win — not just for top vote-getter Bernie Sanders, but for Vladimir Putin.

“The happiest person right now is Vladimir Putin,” Carville said in a Saturday interview on MSNBC, a reference to the recently-revealed consensus of US intelligence agencies that Russia is attempting to manipulate the results of the 2020 presidential election for the benefit of Sanders and President Trump.

“I don’t think Sanders wants Putin to help,” said Carville, an avowed anti-Sanders Democrat.

“I think they don’t like this story,” he added of both Sanders and Trump. “But the story is a fact.”

Carville also said of the Nevada caucuses, “This thing is going very well for Vladimir Putin. I promise you. He’s probably staying up watching this right now. How you doing, Vlad?”

The pundit said Putin sees a Sanders party nomination victory as a surefire way to get Trump elected in November.

“I mean, it’s a straight line,” Carville said, adding, “I don’t think the Sanders campaign in any way is colluding or collaborating.”