>There is no master plan of blackmail, there is a mutual
>interest in converting the world into an oligarchy, of making
>sticky-fingered nihilism the norm. He does Putin's bidding
>against NATO, the EU, etc, legitimizes them to his base and in
>return Putin puts him onto a lot of money in the "private"
>sector. Basically Trump is Maduro with much more expensive
>tastes and slightly more sophisticated demagoguery.

Most likely all of this^^^^^^