Seriously? You can't honestly believe what you posted. It is well known fact that Putin feared Hillary being president and that his intelligence apparatus put every thumb it could on the scale to tip the election to Trump. What on earth gives you the idea that Trump is a "formidable opponent?" There's nothing in his record that shows him in any way to be formidable except in stiffing contractors and suing people. He may be the least "formidable" president since William Henry Harrison.

So if I were Putin, it is beyond dispute that I much rather would deal with the buffoon man-child clown Trump. That is why he helped him win. This is well known, how could you be in the dark about this?