So either Russia is Cabal scum or the sale of U1 went to a faction inside of Russia that was not under Putin's control.
In Sum of All Fears, The Russian President did not sanction the development of the nuclear bomb. Rogue scientists fleed Russia to work on the bomb. A mysterious group of billionaire financiers, (Rothschilds and others in the real world) orchestrated the whole thing to start a war between Russia and USA.
Did Putin orchestrate U1 and somehow the Uranium went missing. Did he never have a clue our government was selling uranium to Russian deep state actors? Is Putin Cabal Scum?
On another note, look at how Wikipedia labels the bad guys in Sum of All Fears. Laughable.
"He then sells it to a far-right group led by Austrian billionaire and neo-Nazi Richard Dressler, whose aim is to start a nuclear war between the United States and Russia that will devastate them both, and leave a united Fascist Europe to rule the world."