well yeah , she did assume his word was good and it was a bad move for Germany to be so dependant ...but puppet .... nah .... do you remember the incident with the dogs when she came for a meeting ? Putin knew from KGB files she had a phobia of dogs and let his two alsations loose in the meeting room with them . She toughed it out fairly well but does illustrate they weren't eactly matey .
If anyone hadn't already worked out he was an absolute sanguinary illegitimate there was the illustration of it .
