Twisted mobster-brotherhood ethic; Trump really believes he and Putin belong to a secret gang, and that they can rule the whole planet together if they choose.

Trump's fealty to Putin hides in his past with the #Russian #mobsters —‌proto-Oligarchs—‌ of 80's NYC, disgorging bags of launderable cash, in common purpose with the KGB fixers jobbing for the Kremlin insiders in the late and post-Soviet free-for-all.

Putin was a shitty little #blackmarketeer, eager to expand out of East #Germany.