I only strongly disagree with your picture: neither Putin controls Trump nor Trump controls Putin.
As for Obama's famous words: "Russia is isolated and her economy is torn into pieces", let's have a reality check.
India and Pakistan put aside their long-running tensions, as they were officially confirmed as members of the increasingly influential Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), during a summit in Kazakhstan capital Astana.
SCO now includes almost half of the all world population.
Then there were 8: Eurasian powerhouse SCO expands after India & Pakistan join
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As
Bloomberg writes, "the Israelis and Turks, the Egyptians and Jordanians -
they’re all beating a path to the Kremlin in the hope that Vladimir Putin, the new master of the Middle East,
can secure their interests and fix their problems."
And now, none other than Saudi Arabia is the latest to make friendly overtures toward the Kremlin, when Saudi King Salman visits Moscow on Wednesday,
the first monarch of the oil-rich kingdom to do so. At the top of his agenda will be reining in Iran, a close Russian ally seen as a deadly foe by most Gulf Arab states.
"Putin Is The New Master Of The Middle East"
And there are more and more examples how "Russia is isolated", my as*....