Seawytch
Information isnt Advocacy
Trump has been against getting involved in Syria for years (a poster in another thread put up tweets from him in 2013). Trump also campaigned on a more non-interventionist strategy. So while I'm sure Putin is pleased, it is not necessarily a Putin favor.According to a Washington Post report, Trump has cut funding to a covert CIA program arming moderate Syrian rebels, which Putin has been pressing for.
Trump ends covert CIA program to arm anti-Assad rebels in Syria, a move sought by Moscow
To be honest, I have no opinion as to whether this is a good idea or a bad one, but apparently his advisors opposed the move. There are no real good guys in the region, as far as I'm concerned, there's just various shades of evil. But Assad is the worst and Putin wanting this to happen isn't good either.
So Donnie goes to Germany and Putin gets everything he wants. How convenient!
We don't Putin wasn't having him campaign on a "non interventionist" strategy.