The scarlet thread of Maidan continues to weave itself even tighter around Trump and Putin.

As the 'bromance' between Trump and Putin begins to seriously falter under the weight of the mounting revelations about the direct links between key lieutenants in the Trump administration and Putin's 'siloviki' in the Kremlin, so the 'romance' between Putin and Marine Le Pen begins to blossom in the Spring air.

As reported by Juliet Perry (right),

"Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters that Russia was not seeking to influence the upcoming French election but had the right to communicate with French politicians."

whilst Marine Le Pen,

"...  told the speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, that she had "always pressed for the abolition of sanctions" because she regarded them as "counter-productive," Tass said." (CNN : March 25, 2017) (my emphasis)

The unraveling of Putin's direct interference in the US presidential elections has shut the door against Donald Trump  being able to give Putin 'sanctions-removal payback' for helping him move into the White House using methods of subterfuge.

And now Putin's attention has turned towards Marine Le Pen, and the upcoming French Presidential elections, as a means of getting those US-EU sanctions against himself and his 'siloviki' clan in the Kremlin, that was brought about by his invasion and annexation of Ukrainian Crimea, and his war with Ukraine in the Donbas, removed.

When Putin ordered his acolytes in the Kremlin to 'steal' information from Democratic Party computers in the US as a means of assisting Trump get into the White House, he did not quite anticipate just how swiftly the deep links between Trump and his top White House officials, and himself and his kleptocratic 'siloviki', would become universally exposed.(full video)

It is no wonder that Putin's  'Sean Spicer' equivalent, Dmitry Peskov, had to re-assure us that,

".. Russia was not seeking to influence the upcoming French election" (ibid Juliet Perry)    

Yet, no matter what Trump and his top administrators try to conceal about their direct links with Putin and his Kremlin cronies, evidence just keeps on emerging about these links.

The scarlet thread of Maidan continues to weave itself even tighter around Trump and Putin.

(to be continued)