Putin's Plan?
To control the USA through blackmail of Trump? Nah. I don't see Trump buckling under pressure from the Kremlin. The Democrats, on the other hand, already have: FDR, and later, Truman, were influenced by the MANY infiltrators of the Federal government - Harry Hopkins, the commie-sympathizing curs of the CIA and State Department, et al. Who's dumb enough to think Kennedy wasn't blackmailed? Come ON! The most blackmailable president of the 20th century? There was a reason that the president left the Cubans stranded on the beach of the Bay of Pigs - it enabled Castro to isolate them, torture them, and keep effective opposition down. Then, JFK paid off Castro to keep the secret and let him look good to the Cubans by giving him desperately-needed medicines to exchange for the remaining living prisoners. Notice that the following president - Johnson - didn't go after Russia, and accepted the twisted logic of the Warren Commission to keep the Kremlin appeased? Nixon...