Are Democrats colluding with Putin now?

The starving people of Venezuela are being run over by armored cars quite possibly manned by Cuban or Russian troops who are protecting Maduro the socialist dictator.

Yet while Republicans, including Trump, are condemning the slaughter of innocents and the involvement of the Russians Democrats are either saying nothing or blaming the US for Venezuela's problems--that's Ilhan Omar's approach.

Given that it's a Putin foreign policy objective to keep a socialist in control of Venezuela the silence or support of Democrats for Maduro is helping Putin.

What's interesting is that Trump has done nothing remotely as useful for Putin as what the Democrats are doing for Putin now.

In fact Trump has been far more antiPutin than Hillary/Obama every were.

Let's look at how Obama treated Putin:

1) Obama "reset" our relationship with Russia even though Russia continued to hold pieces of the country of Georgia that they had taken by force.

2) Obama let a Russian company get control of 20% of US Uranium reserves.

3) Obama canceled a missile defense system for Europe which was designed to prevent Iran from being able to blackmail the EU because Putin didn't like it.

4) Obama was caught telling a senior Russian official to tell Putin that after the election he, Obama, would be able to be more accommodating of what Putin wanted.

5) Obama refused to sell lethal aid to the Ukraine to fight off the Russian invasion.

6) Obama set up a deal with Iran, a Russian client in the Middle East, so that Iran would be able to develop nuclear weapons once Obama was out of office.

7) When the Russian client running Syria used chemical weapons against civilians Obama did nothing despite having proclaimed that to be a red line.  Instead he turned the problem over to the Russians who we now know allowed their client to retain some chemical weapons.

Now let's look at how Trump has treated Putin:

1) Got Germany to cancel a massive natural gas deal with Russia which cost Putin billions.

2) Got NATO to significantly increase defense spending.

3) Increased sanctions on Iran to get them to stop nuclear weapon development.

4) Bombed the Russian client's air base in Syria in response to the Syrian government using chemical weapons against civilians.

5) Significantly increased US defense spending.

6) Provided lethal aid to Ukraine to help them fight off the Russian invasion.

7) Has told Russia to get their troops out of Venezuela.

8) Has increased sanctions on Russian entities.

It's pretty clear that the whole "Trump loves Putin" lie is based on nothing more than the fact that Trump sweet talks Putin which is what good negotiators do when trying to get concessions from narcissist like Putin.

Trump may say nice things about Putin but unlike Obama and the Democrats today Trump thwarts Putin's ambitions and always puts America first.