Putin plays Trump like a balalaika

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Russian President Vladimir Putin is playing President Donald Trump like a balalaika.

That is how to understand Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s airy announcement Tuesday in Turkey that Putin and Trump have agreed to exchange Americans held in Russian prisons for Russians detained by the United States. 

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