Ratcliffe and all that recent commotion….
Sundance:
Russian President Putin doesn’t believe that President Trump or any other U.S. President actually controls the mechanisms of government. This opinion is underlined and emphasized when it comes to the U.S. Intelligence Community and the CIA.
Putin has long stated that no U.S. President controls the CIA, and Putin has said while he never views the U.S. President or the people of America as his enemy, the CIA are the problem. Putin views the CIA as the real control mechanism within the U.S. government.
America is not Russia’s enemy, the CIA is. That’s Putin’s perspective in a nutshell.
When it was revealed how the FBI, ODNI and CIA had targeted candidate Donald Trump and later President Trump, Vladimir Putin used this reference point in all of his statements about “Russiagate” as an I-told-you-so point of emphasis. Putin has a long-held belief that U.S. intelligence agencies operated outside the framework of government, and the “Russiagate” operation against Trump proved it. At least that was his public perspective.