Putin saw weakness in the United States for sure but he saw weakness over a whole period time remember he intervened with an influence operation that's why I went into government in 2016 I didn't go in there to serve Donald Trump. The Russians were not not doing things in this time frame there was all kinds of subversive coercive activity cyber attacks continuous. would have died over a handshake and a well or just novel without much of you know none of this would have been necessary basically.