The US does not care a dime about Crimea and the well-being of people of some poor eastern European state that 98 % of the US population couldn't spot on a map or how authoritarian Putin is. All of that is pretext. Saudi Arabia is arguably the worst country in the world right now in terms of human rights, exporting extremism and genociding yet Saudi-Arabia is a close ally of the US to which the US exports military equipment for billions of Dollars.
Now please explain why Russia is portrayed as the number 1 evil in the world to the US masses in a logical manner. Because a Russian troll bot network posted memes in social media for ad revenue purposes during the US election campaigns? Unreal how easy it is for 12 Russians to regime-change the US, meanwhile the US spends billions on Intelligence Services and fails in Syria.
The fact that Trump's meeting with Saudi Arabia, where he sold weapons to an Islamist kingdom where women aren't even allowed to drive cars, did not even receive 1/10 of the outrage that Trump's Russia meeting did, does not irritate anyone here? No one? Okay.
It is in the best interest of the US to build up Russia as an evil force which will invade us all if we do nothing about it, I totally get that. The US can sell their military weapons to everyone in Europe who must protect themselves from the bad Russians. They can sanction any deals with Russia so Europe can buy the expensive but totally democratic US fracking gas. Russia was also a nuisance in the attempt to overthrow Assad. I get all that. But the aggressive geopolitical interests of the US have nothing to do with us in Europe. Trump is honest. The US is not a friend of the EU. If Trump helps the EU to emancipate itself from the US his presidency will be a success (for us Europeans).
You don't have to be a fan of the US to recognise Putin and Russia and an anti-democratic force for much that is bad in the world.
Trump honest? He lies like most of us drink water.
Pull the other one. It has bell on.