Not sure what that picture of rats is supposed to represent. Rats fleeing a sinking ship?
It is evident that Vladimir Putin and his friends have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. The Soviet Union had long tried to curry favor with the Left, with varying amounts of success. But in recent years, the Soviet Union's main successor state has been doing that on the Right, and Russian officials have hit the jackpot with pResident Trump.
In the early decades of the Soviet Union, some people admired it as creating a superior sort of society. But over the decades, the Left gradually became disenchanted with it, as it did one nasty thing after another. Such earlier Soviet recruits as
Whittaker Chambers and
Klaus Fuchs did their spying because of their sympathies with the Soviet system, sympathies extending to joining Communist Parties.
Kim Philby did not go that far, though his first wife was a Communist.
A more recent Soviet recruit,
John Anthony Walker, apparently did it for the money. He tried to start a business, but it failed, leaving him with a lot of debt. Some Soviet agents then made him an offer he found hard to refuse, lots of money in exchange for helping them out in their spying.
As to Donald Trump, I think that he is also in it for the money. He was allegedly bailed out by some Russian mobsters, and his Russian sympathies and his curious submissiveness toward Vladimir Putin all suggest some quid pro quo somewhere. VP could well have known about how his fellow KGB agents had recruited John Walker and what JW did in exchange for Soviet money.
