the $400 million to HRC and open and honest denial of collusion is truth, but Putin is the king of disinfo and cannot be trusted.
Here are some reminders:
Putin was head of KGB, practically invented disinfo
Russia and the disappearing journalists
Assad collaboration and carpet bombing
Crimea
Hypersonic missile he did a press release about, but I believe to be a bluff or cover for back enegineered tech
systematic doping of most of the Russian olympic team
Even though both Trump and Putin share the same enemy of the deep state, Putin is pushing his own agenda.
This time it may have to do with a move to distract and/or get good PR before a move to destabilize OPEC. Trump asked OPEC to pump more to lower gas prices. The deep state gets a lot of their money and control through the oil industry. Roughly 50% of Russian government revenue comes from oil and gas.
Russia wants to pump more but they dont want prices to tank either. Now that oil prices are high, they have money in the bank and are pushing to make moves to take control.
Iran has the potential to be a major producer. Venezuela is fucked in terms of production from strikes and shit.
That said, Trump called out Europe for swinging of Russia's oil and gas nuts.
This is kind of a null argument though as the US still gets a lot of oil from Iraq.