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It Sure Seems Like Vladimir Putin Is Recalculating the U.S. Elections

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Frida Ghitis: Donald Trump must be angry about the release of Evan Gershkovich and 23 other Westerners .

She says it refutes Trump 's premise that the art of the deal is based on personal relationships.

Ghitis says Putin may have calculated that it was in his interest to wait for Trump 's return to power.

It turns out that his return to the White House was not a precondition for wrangling Gershkovich and others out of their Russian hellholes.

Trump thought that because some other leaders laughed at his jokes, swooned at his golf game, and called him “sir,” he was the shiny jewel on the table.