Putin Thanks Trump

I will leave it to you to find the deeper meaning of it all, but recently Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked President Trump for alerting him to a potential terrorist attack on Russia.

The New York Times reported:

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia called President Trump on Sunday to thank him for a tip from American intelligence agencies that helped prevent a terrorist attack in Russia, the Kremlin said in a statement.

The announcement offered no details about what information the United States had passed along.

But the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency to the K.G.B., told Russian media it had detained two suspects preparing an attack on a crowded location in the northern city of St. Petersburg on New Year’s Eve.

It was not the first time:

Two years ago, Mr. Putin thanked Mr. Trump for information about another planned attack, also in St. Petersburg.

Even though they are adversaries Russia and the United States cooperated on matters related to counterterrorism.

The Times closed its story by explaining that Russia has in the past warned American intelligence services of pending terrorism attacks.

Information has also flowed to the United States from Russia.

In 2011, the Federal Security Service warned the F.B.I. that an immigrant from Russia living in Boston, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, had associated with Islamist militants. The F.B.I. investigated the tip but closed the case after finding no proof.

Two years later, Mr. Tsarnaev and his brother Dzhokhar detonated homemade bombs at the Boston Marathon.

So, the crack FBI investigations unit found no evidence, so it dropped the matter. As you know, three people died at the Boston Marathon. Hundreds were injured.

Keep in mind, this is the same FBI that was informed on numerous occasions that a Parkland Florida High School student, by name of Nikolas Cruz, was plotting to shoot up the school. There again, the FBI found nothing. 

One suspects that they were preoccupied with more important matters.