The Trump/Putin meeting in Hamburg

I don't have anything against the Russian people; in fact (being on the left side of the ideological specter) I admire the fact they did their part (& then some) in defeating fascism. And for that, they suffered in a corrupt system which failed, & they had a Cold War with us which they lost. I gotta be honest though, I'm grateful to be living in the country which actually won the Cold War & then prospered (no matter what; everybody wants to be on the winning side: am I right?).

Anyway, I remember as a kid learning about the Soviet Union from the adults in my family (the republican side of the family) about how Reagan supposedly defeated "those damn Russians" with the "arms race" or whatever.
But it seems to me the Soviet Union collapsed due to poor planning as well as not diversifying their economy, & not taking advantage of their endless supply of resources all thoroughout Eastern Europe.

But all of it is in the past. And don't get me wrong, I don't mind having a friendly relationship with Russia at this moment: I believe in dialogue as opposed to conflict.

Given all that, I don't know what to make of #TrumpRussia: I do enjoy watching Maddow and all those MSNBC shows which have stories about the potential collusion. But at the end of the day, now it's all in Mueller's capable hands.
Which brings me to Trump & his meeting with Putin. I heard a CNN analyst call it "presidential". Given Trump's supposedly "alpha" style of handshakes with other world leaders, I actually saw it as weak.

Trump even seemed to rub Putin's back at one point.

Now imagine a "bizarro" world (Seinfeld reference) where Hillary Clinton had developed a good relationship with Putin during her tenure as secretary of state. Let's say for example she had been a radical socialist in her young age (instead of the Goldwater young republican she actually was) who had admired the Soviet Union thus been seduced by Putin's view of the world.

Now imagine, if in this "bizarro" world (but very similar to this world), Putin had used his hackers and his weaponized digital warfare to inject "fake news" into the social-media political battlefield of 2016 to attack the republicans thus making sure Hillary won.

I suppose the same events which have taken place so far in this world (up to the appointment of a special counsel) would have also taken place in the "bizarro" world. Only instead of MSNBC, Fox news would be the one having big ratings by investigating the "Hillary/Putin Russian connection".
Now imagine if in this bizarro world, Hillary had met Putin in Germany during the G20 and had smiled sweetly at Putin while rubbing his back, would CNN analysts be calling her behavior "presidential"?

I don't think so.