I do not understand the weighty significance of Margaret's concluding sentence:  Putin is laughing his head off....  From what I have observed, it appears that Putin is increasingly (to his disgust) called upon to defend against the ludicrous notion that the Russian Federation had somehow contrived to 'fix' the US election to put in (ha) their man Trump (who is now accused, as POTUS, of SPYING on the USA for Putin).  Wow.  I think Putin is not laughing.  He is wondering if we aren't all just nuts.  Because in order to dismantle an international war machine, we might need to decide that Putin and the Russian Federation are NOT our mortal enemies and we (um, POTUS the best guy for this) should have friendlier, less animosity driven relations.  AND from Canada to the Russian Federation:  thanks for cutting back on your production of oil like that because our oilpatch is a bit of a 'high cost' producer and we sure needed a break.