They have nothing in common except skill at posturing as negotiation. Putin uses

They have nothing in common except skill at posturing as negotiation. Putin uses double down, delay and deceive – the eastern strategy combined with semitic propagandizing (‘mythicism’). Trump uses Bait and Wait – the western european strategy that’s been practiced for our entire existence. Both strategies try to outlast the opposition. Economic capacity determines that duration.
Trump is playing a very simple game: preserving the opportunity to integrate russia with the west rather than have her subservient to china because russia is demographically and economically declining faster than china is demographically declining.