Trumpian whining tends to default to real estate talk, (remember those North Korean beach condos), so perhaps Trump’s objective is to get that building approval he didn’t get in 2013.

x ...over the years, I would return to criticism that it wasnÃ¢ÂÂt good enough Ã¢ÂÂ that I should have gotten Saint Petersburg in addition! Much of our news media is indeed the enemy of the people and all the Dems... Ã¢ÂÂ Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2018

In the back of his mind is the failed Trump World Tower project in Moscow, as well as other failed real estate projects in St. Petersburg and Sochi…

All Putin has to do is nod yes and all those sanctions get lifted. Lke the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, it’s all about the Russian orphans, because that meme will get the debacle of separated US migrant children off the front pages.

More insane will be resurrecting the meme of a US-Russian working group on cyber-intrusions, which was used several times last year as Comey got fired and the Russians including state-media were in the Oval Office. There will be lies.

x Lying has defined TrumpÃ¢ÂÂs presidency and it will make him the most dishonest president in America history. Unfortunately, the lying is getting worse, as this study shows: https://t.co/P3ryvQK9Wq Ã¢ÂÂ John Dean (@JohnWDean) July 15, 2018

Since 1987, Donald Trump has wanted to build the tallest tower in Europe, which would become the Trump World Tower Moscow

But there is a strangeness to the RW historical view these days.

Then John Bolton says the Trump-Putin talks will be “unstructured” so perhaps instead of extraditing serving Russian military officers, Assange gets free passage to Russia or Snowden loses his asylum.

The White House adviser noted that Putin had previously stressed to him that the “Russian state” hadn’t been involved. (ABC News Jonathan) Karl asked if Trump would pressure Putin to turn over the 12 charged Russians to face trial in the United States. Trump said in an interview taped Saturday that he “hadn’t thought” to ask Putin about extradition. “The United States does not have an extradition treaty with Russia, so it’s pretty hard to imagine how that would happen,” Bolton said. He said it was possible the United States would approach INTERPOL with an effort to arrest the Russians. talkingpointsmemo.com/...

Rand Paul, one of the two senators voting no on a NATO support resolution decided he likes Russia more, because the Russians only engaged in cyber-intrusions because it’s the US’s fault. Twisted.

According to the Republican senator, “NATO has had historic achievements and has been part of what was deterrence to Russia. But the interesting thing now is European forces are 13 times bigger than Russian forces — probably 30 times bigger than Russian forces. So right now there’s a disproportionate advantage to the west with NATO.” Paul’s comments and defense of Russia seemed to stun host Jake Tapper who gave the conservative a brief explanation on the differences between Russia and the mutual defense organization. “I think there are a lot of people out there who would have been surprised to hear a sitting United States senator describe Russia versus NATO in terms of confrontation and expansion as a chicken or egg proposition given the fact that NATO protects sovereign countries while allowing them to remain sovereign while Russia invades other countries and takes over those countries,” Tapper lectured. “Right,” Paul backtracked, before once again defending Russia. “Well, what I would say is that there were people — probably the greatest diplomat of the last century was George Kennan, and he did predict that as NATO expanded you would incite militaristic tendencies and nationalism in Russia. I’m not justifying Russian aggression in the Ukraine or Georgia.” www.rawstory.com/… “Rand Paul defends indicted Russian intelligence officers who conspired with Americans to subvert democracy.” Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Friday announced special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of 12 Russian military officials for hacking the Democratic National Committee in 2016. But Rand Paul maintained that such cyber-intrusions into other countries' elections were common on the world stage, suggesting the United States — while not "morally equivalent" to Russia — provoked the Kremlin's stealth attacks. www.politico.com/...

x This is really significant. On Friday, we learned from Mueller that Russians stole DNC data analytics. We reveal today, Denham was with FBI last week & that Cambridge AnalyticaÃ¢ÂÂs servers were accessed from Russia pic.twitter.com/Mu7DtWduN7 Ã¢ÂÂ Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) July 15, 2018