Fiona Hill

You just kind of wait and you figure out what the opponent is going to be.

You don't just leap in there.

And again, that's his expertise in judo.

You just wait until you can leverage everybody else's strength against them.

And that's good enough for him because you can rack up a lot of second best and then you win a tournament.

The whole point for Putin is staying in the game and kind of waiting out his opponents and seeing if he can outfox them over time.

Again, he's pretty predictable in this.

And he knows that Donald Trump's word is empty.

Let's just be frank.

Because the one thing that Putin is extraordinarily good at

is figuring people out, figuring out their vulnerabilities, figuring out their weaknesses.

He's less good at figuring out people's strengths because he doesn't believe that anybody's altruistic.

He doesn't really believe that anybody would do something for goals that are not venal or not personalized, for example.

So Trump fits his category of the person he's used to dealing with perfectly.

There are people like

The Pope, the current Pope, who I think, you know, Trump would have a more difficult time of dealing with.

Putin would rather, did I say Trump?

I might have said Trump.

But anyway, Trump might also have a difficult time.

It's a natural mistake.